News, The leaders of Australia's six states and two territories appear to have agreed to ban reproductive cloning without prohibiting destructive research on cloned human embryos. Prime Minister John Howard announced after a meeting of the Council of Australian Governments that the leaders had...

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News, British pro-lifers have reacted cautiously to the results of the UK general parliamentary election. Mr John Smeaton, national director of SPUC, said: "In some key marginal constituencies where SPUC mounted 'value your vote' campaigns, the pro-life candidate from either the Labour party, ...

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News, Rotary International, which describes itself as a global network for community volunteers, has reiterated its support for the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Frank Devlyn, president of Rotary, said that his organisation was joining forces with the UNFPA to fight the ...

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News, The number of unborn children killed by abortion each year in the Czech Republic has fallen by about two thirds in the last decade. The Institute for Health Information in Prague has announced that about 32,500 registered abortions were performed last year, compared with 107,000 in 1990....

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News, A Scottish survey has indicated that nine out of 10 women who have a second abortion under the Abortion Act are aware of the morning-after pill. However, only 10 percent use the drug [which can itself cause an early abortion]. The doctors who conducted the survey at Forth Park Hospital in...

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News, The number of abortions in England and Wales last year was the third highest on record. Provisional figures released by the Office for National Statistics indicate that 185,000 unborn children were killed by abortion during 2000. If this figure is confirmed when the definitive statistics...

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House of Lords told that cloning is unethical and unnecessary Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has told a House of Lords select committee that destructive embryonic stem cell research is ethically unacceptable and scientifically unnecessary. SPUC, Britain's lon...

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News, The total number of unborn children killed by abortion in Scotland fell last year. Official figures released yesterday indicated that there were 11,966 abortions recorded in 2000, compared to 12,167 in 1999. However, the number of girls under 16 who had abortions rose by almost 10% to 27...

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News, Australia is to consider a nationwide ban on human cloning. Mr John Howard, the country's prime minister, has written to all state premiers to confirm that the issue will be discussed at the next meeting of the Council of Australian Governments. Presently only three Australian states hav...

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News, The pro-abortion Family Planning Association (FPA) will present its case against Northern Ireland's abortion restrictions at the high court in Belfast on 13 June. The FPA will argue that Bairbre de Brun, Northern Ireland's health minister, acted unlawfully by failing to issue guidance on...

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News, The Women on the Waves Foundation has announced that its floating abortion clinic will go to Dublin in June. Dr Rebecca Gomperts, the Dutch abortionist behind the project, explained that the facility could provide abortions under Dutch law as long as it remained in international waters m...

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News, The Women on the Waves Foundation has announced that its floating abortion clinic will go to Dublin in June. Dr Rebecca Gomperts, the Dutch abortionist behind the project, explained that the facility could provide abortions under Dutch law as long as it remained in international waters more ...

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News, The UK's ProLife Alliance has lost its case against the BBC in the High Court. The party had wanted its uncensored election broadcast shown in Wales, but the judge decided that the BBC had been right not to show what he called "images of an offensive nature". A spokesman for the ProLife Alli...

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News, The UK's ProLife Alliance has lost its case against the BBC in the High Court. The party had wanted its uncensored election broadcast shown in Wales, but the judge decided that the BBC had been right not to show what he called "images of an offensive nature". A spokesman for the ProLife ...

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News, American researchers are attempting to automate the process of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), raising fears that the innovation could lead to production lines of genetically screened human embryos. David Beebe at the University of Wisconsin and Matthew Wheeler at the University of Illinoi...

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News, American researchers are attempting to automate the process of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), raising fears that the innovation could lead to production lines of genetically screened human embryos. David Beebe at the University of Wisconsin and Matthew Wheeler at the University of Illinois ha...

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News, The general assembly of the Church of Scotland, a Presbyterian denomination, has sanctioned the creation and destruction of cloned human embryos for research. The motion passed by delegates stipulated that no research should be undertaken on cloned embryos of more than 14 days' development, ...

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News, The general assembly of the Church of Scotland, a Presbyterian denomination, has sanctioned the creation and destruction of cloned human embryos for research. The motion passed by delegates stipulated that no research should be undertaken on cloned embryos of more than 14 days' developme...

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News, Every year in Britain the bodies of nearly 500,000 unborn children are being incinerated with used syringes and soiled swabs, according to an investigation by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Environmental legislation which stops most hospitals from incinerating the bodies on site mea...

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Change to pharmacists' code of ethics a cynical betrayal of natural justice Change to pharmacists' code of ethics "a cynical betrayal of natural justice" Westminster, --Pro-life campaigners have condemned the decision to amend the conscience clause from pharmacists' code of ethics. Mr Paul Tully...

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