SPUC petitions against abortion pills for 11-year-olds Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has launched a nationwide petition to stop girls as young as 11 from being given morning-after pills at school. John Smeaton, SPUC national director, said: "Morning-after pi...

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SPUC warning about embryo proposal Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has sounded a warning note at reports that the maximum number of embryos to be transferred to the womb in in vitro fertilisation is to be reduced. Paul Tully, SPUC general secretary, said: "In ...

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Warnings on sex-selection "hollow" Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has decried warnings from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority about gender-selection. Paul Tully, SPUC general secretary, said: "The HFEA's warnings about gender-selection and desi...

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News, Warnings about prenatal sex-selection from the UK embryology authority have been decried by SPUC. Paul Tully, SPUC general secretary, said: "The HFEA's warnings about gender-selection and designer babies have a hollow ring to them. The authority already allows pre-implantation genetic di...

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News, The British government has reiterated its determination to implement proposals which would allow euthanasia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The government's intention was re-stated in a written parliamentary answer from Ms Rosie Winterton MP, a parliamentary secretary at the lord...

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News, Catholic doctors in South Korea have warned that new national guidelines are so ambiguous that they could allow for abortion, in vitro fertilisation and euthanasia. The Korean Medical Association has reportedly eased its ethical guidelines despite earlier protests from Catholic leaders, ...

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News, Researchers have warned that exposure of unborn male children in the first three months of pregnancy to high levels of certain chemicals is causing marked decreases in fertility as well as higher rates of testicular cancer and genital malformations. So-called gender bending chemicals whi...

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News, Nearly 70% of people in Scotland believe that abortion in cases of foetal abnormality is wrong, according to a major survey released this week. The Scottish Social Attitudes 2000 survey, which contrasts contemporary Scottish moral attitudes with the way things were in 1983, indicates tha...

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News, The funeral for Cardinal Thomas Winning, a champion of the unborn, was held yesterday in Scotland. The main celebrant at the Mass in St Andrew's cathedral was Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, archbishop of Westminster. In a message read out by Archbishop Pablo Puente, the papal nuncio, P...

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News, British pro-lifers have called on Prime Minister Tony Blair to seek improvements in palliative care rather than the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia. The calls were made after the husband of a terminally ill 42-year-old wrote to the prime minister urging him to allow doctors to help ...

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Ministers urged not to approve euthanasia Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has urged government ministers not to be swayed by a request for euthanasia from a woman with motor neurone disease. Mrs Diane Pretty, 42, of Luton, Bedfordshire, sent a message to the p...

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News, The governments of France and the United States have proposed complete bans on human cloning. In contrast to the ban on cloning for reproductive purposes proposed by the British government, the French and American bans would include so-called therapeutic cloning. The administration of US...

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News, The UK's Royal Society has reaffirmed its support for so-called therapeutic cloning, while calling for a worldwide ban on human cloning for reproductive purposes. In his submission on behalf of the Royal Society to the House of Lords select committee on stem cell research, Professor Rich...

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News, An Australian pro-euthanasia campaigner has announced plans to moor a floating euthanasia clinic off the British coast. Dr Philip Nitschke said that he would travel to the Netherlands to buy a Dutch-registered boat, and would also meet the activists behind the Women on the Waves floating...

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News, Cardinal Thomas Winning, a champion of the unborn, died yesterday at the age of 76. Cardinal Winning, who was archbishop of Glasgow and leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, collapsed at his home after a second heart attack. He had been discharged from hospital two days earlie...

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News, Aurora, the Dutch floating abortion clinic, docked in Dublin last night. Joke van Kampen, a spokeswoman for the Women on the Waves foundation, said that the boat's crew hoped to stir a campaign for the liberalisation of Ireland's abortion laws. They also intend to provide the RU-486 abor...

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News, Pro-lifers won an important victory at the United Nations on Tuesday after a pro-abortion Canadian delegate admitted that the draft text of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child included a right of access to abortion. When asked by the American delegate what was meant by the phras...

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News, The pro-abortion Family Planning Association (FPA) was this morning given leave by the High Court in Belfast to bring a judicial review of Northern Ireland's abortion laws. Lord Justice Kerr said that the FPA's argument that the health department should have issued guidelines stipulating...

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Northern Ireland pro lifers concerned at FPA's judicial review application success Northern Ireland pro-lifers concerned at FPA's judicial review application success Belfast, --Pro-lifers in Northern Ireland have reacted with concern after the High Court granted leave to the Family Planning Asso...

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News, A man who admitted to killing his mentally ill daughter in an "act of love" has walked free from a court in England. Mr James Lawson suffocated his 22-year-old daughter after she had made a number of failed suicide attempts. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished ...

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