News, The US senate has voted to allow privately-funded abortions in overseas military hospitals, a measure opposed by the house of representatives last month. Senator Sam Brownback pointed out that, even though women might pay for their own terminations, the amendment to the defence budget bi...

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News, Dana Rosemary Scallon, a member of the European parliament for Connaught and Ulster, has called for the resignation of Philippe Busquin, the European Union's commissioner for research. Commissioner Busquin stated last week that whenever one EU member state declared in favour of a certain...

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News, Prominent members of SPUC began a nine-day water-only fast today to draw attention to the true nature of the abortifacient morning-after pill and raise funds for the continuing campaign against it. Paul Tully, the general secretary, and William Jolliffe, a member of the national executiv...

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News, Dutch government figures which appear to indicate that the number of euthanasia cases fell for the second consecutive year in 2001 have been treated with scepticism. There were 2,054 official reports of euthanasia in the Netherlands last year, down from 2,216 in 1999. The law which offic...

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News, The abortifacient morning-after pill is to be supplied free of charge to children in Exeter, south-west England. The scheme, which is being organised by the North and East Devon NHS authority in conjunction with Devon County Council, involves the provision of morning-after pills from pha...

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News, A British consultant psychotherapist has expressed his amazement that the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists does not have a policy of offering women psychological advice after abortions. Writing in today's Daily Telegraph newspaper, Dr K D Philips observes: "I see about o...

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News, Saudi Arabia has announced its intention to begin embryonic stem cell research within three months as part of a plan to become the biotechnology capital of the middle east. Speaking at an international biotechnology conference in Toronto, Dr Sultan Bahabri, chairman of the Jeddah BioCity...

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News, The Judicial Office of the House of Lords, Britain's highest court, has granted the Pro-Life Alliance leave to appeal against its defeat in the Court of Appeal on the matter of human cloning legislation. The Pro-Life Alliance argues that the UK parliament's decision to authorise so-calle...

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News, A British woman who had an abortion four years ago is suing the National Health Service (NHS) for failing to warn her of the distress she would later experience. The woman, who is from the north of England but wishes to remain anonymous, suffered a serious breakdown when she gave birth t...

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News, A British test-tube baby pioneer has said that he supports reproductive human cloning as a treatment for infertility. Dr Robert Edwards, whose work on in vitro fertilisation led to the birth of the world's first test-tube baby in 1978, said that the needs of childless couples should take...

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News, Pro-lifers in Northern Ireland have expressed concern that a conference centre run by a Catholic religious order hosted a pro-abortion meeting over the weekend. Mrs Betty Gibson, chairman of SPUC Northern Ireland, has written to Fr Patrick Ryall OSM, prior provincial of the Servite order...

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SPUC criticises Catholic centre which hosted conference run by pro-abortionists Belfast, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has expressed concern that a Catholic conference centre has hosted a conference run by supporters of abortion. In a letter sent today to Fr Patrick Ryal...

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News, A committee of the European parliament voted this week to endorse a strongly pro-abortion document. The parliament's committee on women's rights and equal opportunities voted on Tuesday by 21 to 11, with four abstentions, in favour of the draft Van Lancker report on sexual and reproducti...

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News, SPUC has added its support to a letter from 19 other pro-life and pro-family organisations which urges US President Bush to cut funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) because of its involvement with forced abortion and sterilisation in China. The letter, dated the 21st of ...

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SPUC supports call to Bush to stop UNFPA funding London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has added its support to a letter from 19 other pro-life and pro-family organisations which urges President Bush to cut funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) because of...

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SPUC concerned about pro-abortion conference at Catholic centre Belfast, --SPUC in Northern Ireland has been most concerned to discover that a conference centre run by the Servites, a Catholic religious order, plans to host a pro-abortion meeting next weekend. The Benburb Conference Centre, which is...

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News, SPUC in Northern Ireland has discovered that a conference centre run by the Servites, a Catholic religious order, plans to host a pro-abortion meeting next weekend. The Benburb Conference Centre, which is in the grounds of Benburb Servite priory, is the venue for the annual residential c...

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News, Scientists believe that an injection of magnesium sulphate could prevent thousands of cases of eclampsia in pregnant women, which is life-threatening for mothers and unborn children. One in 10 pregnant women suffer from pre-eclampsia, which is normally characterised by high blood pressur...

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News, A British surgeon has been defending his decision to carry out an abortion on a female patient without her consent. The General Medical Council's professional conduct committee has heard that Reginald Dixon, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, discovered that Barbara Whiten, a 3...

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News, The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has criticised the United Kingdom for making little progress in combating teenage pregnancy. A UNICEF survey has found that the UK's teenage pregnancy rate is second only to that of the United States. A UNICEF report claims that significant rea...

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