News, A genetic defect could increase the risk of a pregnancy-complication which threatens mothers' and babies' lives. According to Dutch researchers in Nijmegen, women with a defect in the exon 3 section of the gene which produces the epoxide hydrolase enzyme have an increased risk of pre-ecl...

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News, A genetic defect could increase the risk of a pregnancy-complication which threatens mothers' and babies' lives. According to Dutch researchers in Nijmegen, women with a defect in the exon 3 section of the gene which produces the epoxide hydrolase enzyme have an increased risk of pre-eclamps...

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News, Amniocentesis could cause more miscarriages than the number of babies in whom it detects Down's syndrome. Researchers at St Bartholomew's medical school, London, found that, of 40,000 women who had the prenatal test in one year, 400 subsequently miscarried babies who did not have the syndrom...

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News, Amniocentesis could cause more miscarriages than the number of babies in whom it detects Down's syndrome. Researchers at St Bartholomew's medical school, London, found that, of 40,000 women who had the prenatal test in one year, 400 subsequently miscarried babies who did not have the syn...

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News, SPUC has welcomed the pre-election message of the Catholic bishops of England and Wales . Paul Tully, SPUC general secretary, said: "The bishops make it abundantly clear that voters must act out of concern for the weakest and most vulnerable members of society, and not out of self intere...

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News, SPUC has welcomed the pre-election message of the Catholic bishops of England and Wales. Paul Tully, SPUC general secretary, said: "The bishops make it abundantly clear that voters must act out of concern for the weakest and most vulnerable members of society, and not out of self interest." ...

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SPUC welcomes bishops' pro life statement SPUC welcomes bishops' pro-life statement Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has welcomed the focus on the sanctity of life in the English and Welsh Catholic bishops' pre-election statement. Paul Tully, SPUC general s...

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News, An abortion clinic has told the English high court that it will perform more tests on a woman whose partner is trying to stop her from terminating her pregnancy. As mentioned in Monday's digest , Mr Stephen Hone is claiming that the west midlands clinic acted outside the 1967 Abortion Ac...

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News, An abortion clinic has told the English high court that it will perform more tests on a woman whose partner is trying to stop her from terminating her pregnancy. As mentioned in Monday's digest, Mr Stephen Hone is claiming that the west midlands clinic acted outside the 1967 Abortion Act by ...

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News, A mother and her unborn child have both died as a result of an amniocentesis test. A coroner's court in Warrington, England, heard yesterday that Jane McCarthy miscarried and died after becoming infected with an E. coli bacterium last May. An expert told the inquest that Mrs McCarthy probabl...

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News, A mother and her unborn child have both died as a result of an amniocentesis test. A coroner's court in Warrington, England, heard yesterday that Jane McCarthy miscarried and died after becoming infected with an E. coli bacterium last May. An expert told the inquest that Mrs McCarthy pro...

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News, A 24-year-old British man has gone to the High Court in an attempt to prevent his ex-girlfriend from aborting their unborn child. Mr Stephen Hone from Coventry was deeply distressed when his 31-year-old girlfriend told him of her decision to obtain an abortion. Mr Hone, who is not religi...

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News, A 24-year-old British man has gone to the High Court in an attempt to prevent his ex-girlfriend from aborting their unborn child. Mr Stephen Hone from Coventry was deeply distressed when his 31-year-old girlfriend told him of her decision to obtain an abortion. Mr Hone, who is not religious,...

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News, Hopes that the legalisation of euthanasia might still be avoided in the Netherlands have been raised by the murder conviction of a doctor who hastened the death of a terminally ill patient. When the lower house of the Dutch parliament voted to legalise euthanasia last November [see news dige]...

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News, Hopes that the legalisation of euthanasia might still be avoided in the Netherlands have been raised by the murder conviction of a doctor who hastened the death of a terminally ill patient. When the lower house of the Dutch parliament voted to legalise euthanasia last November [see news ]...

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News, The parliament of Switzerland yesterday voted to legalise abortion. Abortion has technically been illegal in Switzerland since a law passed in 1942, but several cantons [Swiss provinces] have introduced more liberal provisions and the national legislation is intended to provide a uniform...

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News, The parliament of Switzerland yesterday voted to legalise abortion. Abortion has technically been illegal in Switzerland since a law passed in 1942, but several cantons [Swiss provinces] have introduced more liberal provisions and the national legislation is intended to provide a uniform leg...

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News, The pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the world's biggest abortion promoter, have affirmed their mutual goal of promoting access to abortion throughout the world, under the guise of "reproductive health promotion"....

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News, The pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the world's biggest abortion promoter, have affirmed their mutual goal of promoting access to abortion throughout the world, under the guise of "reproductive health promoti...

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News, Plans by Professor Severino Antinori, the Italian fertility specialist, to press ahead with reproductive human cloning have met with considerable opposition in his own country. The Italian Medical Association has objected to the plans and has asked Professor Antinori to explain his proje...

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