Fresh evidence on foetal pain: Legalised abortion is simply barbarism Fresh evidence on foetal pain: "Legalised abortion is simply barbarism" Westminster, --Fresh evidence that some unborn children may feel pain during abortion means that all unborn children should be given greater legal protect...

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News, A pro-abortion professor in the UK has said that all unborn children aborted after the 17th week of pregnancy should be anaesthetised during the procedure. Professor Vivette Glover of Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London will be chairing a conference on the issue at the Royal...

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News, A pro-abortion professor in the UK has said that all unborn children aborted after the 17th week of pregnancy should be anaesthetised during the procedure. Professor Vivette Glover of Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London will be chairing a conference on the issue at the Royal Ins...

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News, The morning-after pill is to be made available to women over the counter from pharmacists without a doctor's prescription in southern Derbyshire, UK. The Southern Derbyshire health authority announced today that initially seven pharmacies in the Amber Valley area will participate in the tria...

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News, The morning-after pill is to be made available to women over the counter from pharmacists without a doctor's prescription in southern Derbyshire, UK. The Southern Derbyshire health authority announced today that initially seven pharmacies in the Amber Valley area will participate in the ...

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' ' 'Head-in-the-Sand Medicine' Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has accused the Southern Derbyshire Health Authority of cynically misleading the public over suggestions that a scheme to make the morning-after pill available from pharmacists without a docto...

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News, President Bill Clinton announced yesterday that the US government has decided to permit publicly funded research using human embryos. Accepting new guidelines issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), President Clinton said: "We cannot walk away from the potential to save lives ...

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News, President Bill Clinton announced yesterday that the US government has decided to permit publicly funded research using human embryos. Accepting new guidelines issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), President Clinton said: "We cannot walk away from the potential to save lives and ...

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News, Professor Robert Winston, a British pioneer of in vitro fertilisation treatment, has admitted that the technique is now big business and often carried out on women who, with the right treatment, would be able to conceive naturally. Reports in Avvenire, an Italian newspaper, revealed that IVF...

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News, Professor Robert Winston, a British pioneer of in vitro fertilisation treatment, has admitted that the technique is now big business and often carried out on women who, with the right treatment, would be able to conceive naturally. Reports in Avvenire, an Italian newspaper, revealed that...

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News, A prominent staff member at the US Catholic bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities has welcomed new research demonstrating the potential of adult stem cells [for the production of new tissue for transplant]. Richard M Doerflinger, associate director for policy development, noted th...

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News, A prominent staff member at the US Catholic bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities has welcomed new research demonstrating the potential of adult stem cells [for the production of new tissue for transplant]. Richard M Doerflinger, associate director for policy development, noted that a...

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News, The Italian National Bioethics Committee has pointed out that the British government's decision to support human cloning directly contravenes a European convention signed in Oviedo. Britain was itself among the signatories. Giovanni Berlinguer, president of the committee, said that to produc...

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News, The Italian National Bioethics Committee has pointed out that the British government's decision to support human cloning directly contravenes a European convention signed in Oviedo. Britain was itself among the signatories. Giovanni Berlinguer, president of the committee, said that to pr...

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News, An editorial in today's British Medical Journal has called for the increased promotion of abortifacient forms of birth control. Professor Basil Donovan was responding to a survey published in the same journal which suggested that half of teenage girls who become pregnant in the UK were b...

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News, An editorial in today's British Medical Journal has called for the increased promotion of abortifacient forms of birth control. Professor Basil Donovan was responding to a survey published in the same journal which suggested that half of teenage girls who become pregnant in the UK were being...

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News, Cardinal Thomas Winning, archbishop of Glasgow and chairman of the Bioethics Committee of the Catholic bishops of Great Britain and Ireland, has said that the British government's support for human cloning "will shock and disappoint many". He insisted that "obtaining stem cells from a human ...

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News, Cardinal Thomas Winning, archbishop of Glasgow and chairman of the Bioethics Committee of the Catholic bishops of Great Britain and Ireland, has said that the British government's support for human cloning "will shock and disappoint many". He insisted that "obtaining stem cells from a hu...

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News, The British government has accepted the recommendation of the Donaldson Committee that human cloning should be permitted to advance stem cell research and the elimination of mitochondrial disease. The report of the committee headed by Professor Liam Donaldson, Britain's chief medical off...

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Cloning recommendations "unethical and flawed" Westminster, --Recommendations by the government's committee on cloning are not only unethical but could lead to people being cloned without their knowledge or permission. Paul Tully, general secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Childre...

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