European court judgement in Dianne Pretty case is welcomed London, --The coalition of pro-life groups which has been involved in the case of Mrs Dianne Pretty has warmly welcomed today's unanimous judgement by seven judges in the European Court of Human Rights that there is no right to be helped to ...

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SPUC denied appeal over morning after pills and must pay the government's and Schering's costs SPUC denied appeal over morning-after pills and must pay the government's and Schering's costs London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has been denied leave to appeal in its ...

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News, England's most senior woman judge has ordered prison authorities to leave a mentally ill prisoner to die of self-inflicted wounds. The prisoner, known as W, has refused treatment after wounding himself in protest at the refusal of doctors to treat his mental condition because they found ...

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News, A violent and mentally ill prisoner has asked England's top woman judge to be allowed to die. Lawyers for the high-security prisoner, who is known only as W, are asking Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, president of the high court's family division, to rule that he has the capacity to decide ...

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News, British researchers have said that "defective" or deformed cloned human embryos could be used as a source of stem cells. Professor Sir John Gurdon and colleagues at Cambridge University's Wellcome Cancer Research Institute found that abnormal cloned frog embryos yielded normal stem cells...

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News, The Australian high court has rejected a legal bid to prevent single women undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment. A suit brought by the country's Catholic bishops' conference and supported by John Howard, the Australian prime minister, had aimed to bar Leesa Meldrum, a 40-yea...

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Pro-life campaigners in nation-wide street witness London, --Pro-life campaigners will on Saturday (the 27th) give a silent public witness to the millions of abortions performed in Britain since 1968 under the 1967 Abortion Act. Supporters of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) ...

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News, The British government and pro-abortionists have welcomed yesterday's defeat of SPUC's legal challenge to sales of the abortion-inducing morning-after pill from pharmacists in the UK. Yvette Cooper, Britain's public health minister, said: "It is a victory for choice and for common sense....

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News, The English high court has rejected SPUC's legal challenge to sales of the abortifacient morning-after pill from pharmacists. Mr Justice Munby handed down his judgement this morning, after which SPUC announced its intention to seek leave to appeal. The judgement ran to 398 paragraphs in ...

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Abortion pill judgement condemned as failure to protect unborn life London, --The decision of the High Court to allow the abortion-inducing morning-after pill to be sold without prescription has been condemned by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC). The case was brought against ...

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News, The judgement in SPUC's legal challenge to sales of the morning-after pill will be made public tomorrow. The judgement will be handed down by Mr Justice Munby at the high court in London at 10.15 a.m. SPUC sought a judicial review of the British government's decision to make the abortion...

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News, The people of Switzerland will vote in a referendum on whether to legalise abortion on 2 June. While abortion officially remains illegal, it is already tolerated and there are thought to be between 12,000 and 13,000 abortions carried out each year. If the referendum proposal is passed, a...

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News, The Roman Catholic Church in Scotland has condemned a decision to let a hospital in Glasgow screen out test-tube babies with genetic anomalies. The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has granted a licence to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary to use pre-implantation genetic diagn...

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SPUC warns of government U-turn on euthanasia Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has expressed concern that the government is working with the pro-euthanasia lobby to promote so-called living wills which could endanger the lives of vulnerable patients. Responding...

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SPUC praises Bush's call for cloning ban SPUC praises Bush's call for cloning ban London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has praised President Bush for calling on the US Senate to ban research on cloned human beings. John Smeaton, SPUC's national director, said: "The ...

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News, President Bush has called on the US senate to ban research on cloned humans and SPUC has welcomed the move. John Smeaton, SPUC national director, said: "The most powerful politician on earth has told the world that he is on the side of the weakest, most vulnerable human beings on earth--...

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News, A claim that a cloned human embryo has been successfully implanted in the womb has been disputed by the British group which produced the first cloned mammal. Dr Severino Antinori of Rome was reported in the Gulf News of Abu Dhabi as saying that a woman was eight weeks pregnant with a clo...

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News, The leaders of Australia's states and territories have agreed a national policy on stem cell research broadly in line with Prime Minister John Howard's proposals [see yesterday's digest ]. Mr Howard announced that the leaders had slightly modified his recommendations by agreeing that emb...

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News, John Howard, the Australian prime minister, has disappointed pro-lifers by writing to the premiers of all Australia's states and territories to propose the authorisation of destructive stem cell research on surplus in vitro fertilisation (IVF) embryos. Ahead of tomorrow's meeting to deci...

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News, Members of both houses of the UK parliament from all the major parties have written to US President Bush urging him to block further American funding for the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Separate letters, one signed by members of the House of Commons and the other...

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