Bishops urged to reconsider as hospital vows to destroy embryos if Ireland votes 'yes' Bishops urged to reconsider as hospital vows to destroy embryos if Ireland votes 'yes' London, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has urged Irish bishops and other pro-life people to re...

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Rome says "no" London, ----The leader of the Catholic Church's fight against abortion is on public record as wanting Ireland's bishops to oppose the constitutional change on which the Irish people will vote on Wednesday. In November, Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Counc...

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News, The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has licensed two institutions to perform destructive research on human embryos under regulations which came into force in January of last year. The authority says that the work at the Centre for Genome Research, Edinburgh, and Guy's H...

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News, International pro-life leaders have warned that Christians in Ireland cannot in conscience support proposed constitutional changes concerning abortion and that the country's Roman Catholic bishops have misunderstood the legal effect of proposed amendments. A letter to all Roman Catholic ...

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International pro-life leaders call for "no" vote in Irish abortion referendum London, --Leading international pro-life leaders have condemned the Irish government's abortion referendum proposals as "a new liberal law that will increase the number, the scope and the types of abortions performed." In...

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SPUC condemns Lords' cloning report as whitewash SPUC condemns Lords' cloning report as "whitewash" Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned the House of Lords select committee report on human cloning as "whitewash". Anthony Ozimic of SPUC said: "We u...

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News, A House of Lords' committee is reported to have concluded that it supports British parliamentary approval for the creation of cloned humans who may be experimented on but are denied the chance to be born. SPUC has condemned the conclusions as "whitewash". Anthony Ozimic of SPUC said: "Th...

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MLAs and MEP to attend Stormont launch of book on abortion threat Newtownabbey, --MLAs from the DUP and SDLP, and a Member of the European Parliament, will speak at the launch in Stormont next week of a book which warns that Northern Ireland's predominantly pro-life culture is under threat. Mr Nigel...

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SPUC criticises 'designer baby' decision SPUC criticises 'designer-baby' decision Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has criticised the HFEA's decision to allow the Hashmi family of Leeds to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to select a sibling for...

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SPUC supports Dana against Irish bishops on abortion referendum Westminster, --The national director of the UK's Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has expressed his support for Dana Rosemary Scallon MEP after she was criticised by leading Irish Catholic churchmen for her oppositio...

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News, The Irish Referendum Commission has published its information pamphlet which will be sent to all households ahead of the abortion referendum on the sixth of next month. The pamphlet concedes that use of the abortifacient morning-after pill would not constitute abortion in the criminal se...

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News, Members of the Mexican national legislature are taking the recent supreme court decision to authorise abortion in certain cases to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, an autonomous agency of the Organisation of American States. The congressmen, all members of the ruling President V...

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News, Dana Rosemary Scallon, an Irish member of the European parliament and a widely respected pro-lifer, has explained why she cannot in conscience support the abortion referendum proposals. Citing the various ways in which the proposed constitutional amendment would worsen the situation of u...

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News, Scientists in the United States have announced the birth of the world's first successfully cloned cat. The kitten, named CC, was born on 22 December at Texas A&M University. She was the only kitten to be born alive out of 87 cloned cat embryos transferred into a total of eight adult cats...

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News, The hearing of evidence and presentation of arguments have concluded in SPUC's English high court judicial review on the supply of morning-after pills without prescription. Mr Justice Munby, presiding, said that there was so much to consider that he needed time to prepare his judgement, ...

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News, SPUC's legal challenge to sales of the morning-after pill from pharmacists in the UK is continuing today in the High Court. The judicial review before Mr Justice Munby is now expected to run into tomorrow. Yesterday, Mr Richard Gordon QC, representing SPUC, set out the argument that one ...

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News, SPUC's judicial review of the government's decision to make the morning-after pill available from pharmacists without a prescription starts this morning in the High Court in London. Speaking on national radio this morning, John Smeaton, SPUC's national director, said that the presentatio...

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News, SPUC's judicial review of the British government's decision to make the abortion-inducing morning-after pill available from pharmacists without a doctor's prescription begins tomorrow. The hearing will commence at 10.30 a.m. in court 27 of the High Courts in London. It is expected that t...

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News, The director of an abortion clinic in Britain's second largest city has admitted that "there are potential health risks with any abortion operation." Tracey Allsopp, the manager of Birmingham's Calthorpe Clinic, also admitted that women made repeat visits to her clinic for abortions desp...

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News, A 23-year-old lady in Hertfordshire, England, is reported to be expecting conjoined twins. The two girls, named Natasha and Courtney, share a heart and a liver. Tina May, the twins' mother, and her fiancé Dennis Smith, were initially offered an abortion when it was discovered that they w...

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