News, The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has been granted permission to mount a full legal challenge to the British government's decision to make the abortifacient morning-after pill available from pharmacists without a doctor's prescription. Contrary to the expectations ...

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SPUC granted judicial review on morning-after pill Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has been granted a judicial review on the supply of morning-after pills without a doctor's prescription. John Smeaton, SPUC national director, said: "We are very pleased that th...

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News, The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has been granted permission to mount a full legal challenge to the British government's decision to make the abortifacient morning-after pill available from pharmacists without a doctor's prescription. Contrary to the expectations of s...

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News, It has been confirmed that SPUC's judicial review hearing will take place at 10.30 a.m. tomorrow at the Royal Courts of Justice on The Strand in central London. SPUC will be seeking permission to bring a judicial review of the British government's decision to reclassify the abortifacient Lev...

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SPUC to challenge sales of the morning-after pill in the High Court tomorrow Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), Britain's longest established pro-life group, will tomorrow seek permission from a High Court judge to bring a judicial review of the government's dec...

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News, It has been confirmed that SPUC's judicial review hearing will take place at 10.30 a.m. tomorrow at the Royal Courts of Justice on The Strand in central London. SPUC will be seeking permission to bring a judicial review of the British government's decision to reclassify the abortifacient...

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News, Today marks the 33rd anniversary of the day when Britain's Abortion Act came into effect. An analysis of official government statistics indicates that between 27 April 1968 and 31 December 1999, there were a total of 5,227,158 abortions performed in England, Scotland and Wales under the ...

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News, Today marks the 33rd anniversary of the day when Britain's Abortion Act came into effect. An analysis of official government statistics indicates that between 27 April 1968 and 31 December 1999, there were a total of 5,227,158 abortions performed in England, Scotland and Wales under the term...

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News, United States President George W Bush has given his full backing to the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which was taken up in the US House of Representatives yesterday and will be voted on today. The text of a White House statement affirms that the President "supports protection for unborn c...

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News, United States President George W Bush has given his full backing to the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which was taken up in the US House of Representatives yesterday and will be voted on today. The text of a White House statement affirms that the President "supports protection for unbo...

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News, The head of a London fertility clinic and one of his patients have failed in an attempt to bring a judicial review of the rule which limits to three the number of embryos who can be implanted during in vitro fertilisation treatment [see digest for 23 April]. Mr Justice Ouseley at the Hig...

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News, The head of a London fertility clinic and one of his patients have failed in an attempt to bring a judicial review of the rule which limits to three the number of embryos who can be implanted during in vitro fertilisation treatment [see digest for 23 April]. Mr Justice Ouseley at the High Co...

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News, The head of the UK's embryology authority said last night that British scientists who went overseas to conduct types of research on human embryos which were illegal in Britain would not be blacklisted, but could in fact return home to "continuing acclaim". Mrs Ruth Deech, chief executive of ...

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News, The head of the UK's embryology authority said last night that British scientists who went overseas to conduct types of research on human embryos which were illegal in Britain would not be blacklisted, but could in fact return home to "continuing acclaim". Mrs Ruth Deech, chief executive...

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News, SPUC, Britain's longest established pro-life group, is asking the High Court in London to halt sales of the abortifacient morning-after pill from pharmacists. SPUC is to receive an oral hearing before a High Court judge within the next two weeks to seek permission to bring a judicial rev...

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Pro-lifers go to court to halt sales of the morning-after pill The hearing is set for some time after 10:30 on Wednesday (2 May) at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London. Westminster, --Britain's longest established pro-life group is asking the High Court to halt sales of the morning-after pil...

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News, SPUC, Britain's longest established pro-life group, is asking the High Court in London to halt sales of the abortifacient morning-after pill from pharmacists. SPUC is to receive an oral hearing before a High Court judge within the next two weeks to seek permission to bring a judicial review ...

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News, A bill to legalise passive euthanasia in Israel has been expanded by a committee of legislators. The measure to introduce so-called living wills had already received its first reading in the Israeli parliament, but members of the Knesset law committee have now recommended additional provisio...

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News, A bill to legalise passive euthanasia in Israel has been expanded by a committee of legislators. The measure to introduce so-called living wills had already received its first reading in the Israeli parliament, but members of the Knesset law committee have now recommended additional prov...

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News, The British health secretary will announce today that the UK is to become the first country in the world explicitly to ban the birth of cloned babies [see last Tuesday's digest ]. However, media reports have presented the move as a prohibition of human cloning when this is not the case. ...

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