News, The premier of Queensland, Australia, has called into question the credibility of pro-euthanasia campaigners after it was reported that Nancy Crick, the 69-year-old supposed cancer sufferer who committed suicide last week, did not have any visible signs of cancer at the time of her death...

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News, Tony Blair, the British prime minister, has given his enthusiastic backing to all types of stem cell research. In a speech to the Royal Society in London, Mr Blair pledged to make Britain the "best place in the world" for stem cell research and said that anti-science prejudice was "profo...

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UK insisting on embryo research funding by EU Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has strongly criticised the UK government for holding up agreement on the European Union's research budget by pushing its own agenda for human embryo research. Dominic Baster, SPUC's...

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News, Provisional figures have indicated that about 186,200 unborn children were killed under the terms of the British Abortion Act in England and Wales last year. The provisional total published yesterday by the Office for National Statistics, which takes into account incomplete forms and may...

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News, The abortifacient morning-after pill will probably be available from pharmacists throughout New Zealand from the end of July. The country's ministry of health decided last year to allow pharmacists to dispense the drug once they had undergone special training, and the Pharmaceutical Soci...

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News, Police in the Republic of Ireland are investigating death threats made to Mrs Dana Rosemary Scallon, a prominent pro-life member of the European parliament, during her unsuccessful Irish general election campaign. Dana received a letter and a number of menacing phone messages because she...

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News, A six-year-old boy who was born with a deformed left leg allegedly as a result of surgical procedures carried out on him when he was an unborn child is seeking compensation in the English high court. Lawyers acting for Morgyn Peters claim that doctors at the University of Wales hospital ...

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News, The decision by Belgium's parliament to legalise euthanasia has been criticised by both the country's doctors and Catholic bishops. A survey carried out last year found that 75% of doctors opposed the law, and Marc Moens, vice-chairman of the Belgian medical chamber, said: "Doctors know ...

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News, The Belgian parliament has voted to legalise euthanasia. The measure, which was passed by the Senate last October and had the support of the ruling coalition, was passed yesterday in the lower house by 86 votes to 51, with 10 abstentions. The law is expected to come into effect this summ...

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News, A European ethics committee has urged caution on human cloning, though its reasons appear to be more to do with possible developmental anomalies than the protection of human life. Mr Peter Whittaker of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies said there was a consensu...

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News, Palliative care experts are asking Belgian legislators to ensure that people who request euthanasia are told about pain relief. The Flemish Federation for Palliative Care has written to De Standaard newspaper to urge parliamentarians to amend a bill which would legalise euthanasia. The c...

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UNFPA Coercion Whitewashed Again Expert Says: 'UNFPA Report Simply Not Trustworthy' UNFPA Coercion Whitewashed Again; Expert Says: 'UNFPA Report Simply Not Trustworthy' The following statement on UNFPA Coercion is issued jointly by SPUC and PRI: --Misinformation about forced abortion in China ha...

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News, Pro-abortion language has been omitted from the document agreed in the early hours of Saturday by the United Nations general assembly's special session on children. Costa Rica, El Salvador, the Holy See, Honduras and the United States added wording which emphasised that no part of A Worl...

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News, The fertility expert who claims to have implanted cloned embryos in three women has warned that, when born, the children could be stigmatised by society. Professor Severino Antinori of Rome told a news conference: "... in the countries where these babies will be born, if the climate of p...

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News, US delegates to this week's United Nations conference on children are pressing for the deletion of parts of the draft summit document which would promote abortion and undermine families. America wants no mention of reproductive health services--acknowledged code-words for abortion provis...

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News, The president of the pontifical council for the family has accused certain countries' representatives at this week's United Nations summit on children of: "a selective, superficial or distorted recognition and understanding of human dignity". Addressing religious leaders at the UN, Cardi...

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News, The United Nations general assembly's three-day special session on children begins in New York tomorrow and observers expect that participants will fail to agree about the provision of abortion to minors. Preparatory meetings have over-run, with Canada, Europe and Latin American countrie...

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News, New guidelines on life-prolonging treatment being drawn up by the UK's General Medical Council (GMC) will mean that doctors could be struck off for continuing to treat a critically ill patient, especially if it is against the patient's express wishes. Professor David Hatch, chairman of t...

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News, In the wake of the decision by European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to uphold laws preventing assisted suicide in the case of Dianne Pretty, the British media has headlined the consultation process on refusal of medical treatment which the UK's General Medical Council (GMC) launched in ...

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News, The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that there is no right to assisted suicide under the European Convention on Human Rights. A panel of seven judges in Strasbourg ruled unanimously this morning that Mrs Dianne Pretty, who has motor-neurone disease (MND), has no right to be help...

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