News, The British Pregnancy Advisory Service has announced that it arranged abortions in Britain for 2,460 Irish women last year. 12 of these were under 16, while 933 were aged between 20 and 24. The figures were released jointly by the BPAS and the Irish Family Planning Association, which claimed...

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News, Nearly half of patients considered to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) may in fact be aware of what is going on around them and capable of communicating. A study carried out on 40 presumed PVS patients by the Royal Hospital for Neurodisability in London has found that 17 of them wer...

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News, Nearly half of patients considered to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) may in fact be aware of what is going on around them and capable of communicating. A study carried out on 40 presumed PVS patients by the Royal Hospital for Neurodisability in London has found that 17 of them...

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News, The Oireachtas committee on the constitution has concluded its public hearings on the abortion issue in Ireland with submissions from groups in favour of abortion. Last Wednesday, members of the Cork Women's Right to Choose Group called for abortion on request up to the twelfth week of p...

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News, The Oireachtas committee on the constitution has concluded its public hearings on the abortion issue in Ireland with submissions from groups in favour of abortion. Last Wednesday, members of the Cork Women's Right to Choose Group called for abortion on request up to the twelfth week of pregn...

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News, A spokesperson for the British Medical Association has called for greater freedom to be given to doctors to end the lives of patients in so-called persistent vegetative states (PVSs). At the moment an individual high court order must be obtained in each case, but the spokeswoman said: "There...

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News, A spokesperson for the British Medical Association has called for greater freedom to be given to doctors to end the lives of patients in so-called persistent vegetative states (PVSs). At the moment an individual high court order must be obtained in each case, but the spokeswoman said: "T...

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News, An English judge has abandoned the traditional notion of doctors having a duty to sustain life in ruling that a brain-damaged boy can be left to die. The case came to court because the child's parents objected. The boy, known only as 'I', is 19 months old and has a lung condition. His mo...

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News, An English judge has abandoned the traditional notion of doctors having a duty to sustain life in ruling that a brain-damaged boy can be left to die. The case came to court because the child's parents objected. The boy, known only as 'I', is 19 months old and has a lung condition. His mother...

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News, A new service launched yesterday allows British women to book initial abortion consultations over the internet. Marie Stopes International, which provides over 35,000 abortions a year in Britain, now provides an online booking service on its website through which women can make appointments ...

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News, A new service launched yesterday allows British women to book initial abortion consultations over the internet. Marie Stopes International, which provides over 35,000 abortions a year in Britain, now provides an online booking service on its website through which women can make appointme...

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News, A prominent pro-life campaigner in the UK has lodged a complaint with the Charity Commission against Marie Stopes International, a major abortion provider, claiming that it has provided women with dishonest information. Mrs Victoria Gillick, a counsellor for the anti-abortion charity Lif...

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Pro-life group condemns abortion bookings over the internet Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has described a website through which women can book abortion consultations as "an insult to the hundreds of women hurt by abortion every day." John Smeaton, the society's nat...

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News, A prominent pro-life campaigner in the UK has lodged a complaint with the Charity Commission against Marie Stopes International, a major abortion provider, claiming that it has provided women with dishonest information. Mrs Victoria Gillick, a counsellor for the anti-abortion charity Life, s...

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News, The Church of England has re-affirmed its opposition to euthanasia. A new edition of the document On Dying Well, first published in 1975, insists that euthanasia cannot be justified ethically or theologically. It states: "Experience suggests that although it is an articulate minority who wou...

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News, The Church of England has re-affirmed its opposition to euthanasia. A new edition of the document On Dying Well, first published in 1975, insists that euthanasia cannot be justified ethically or theologically. It states: "Experience suggests that although it is an articulate minority who...

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News, It has emerged that researchers in Britain are circumventing the present ban on all human cloning by importing embryo stem cells from the United States. The cells, stored in dry ice, were imported from Wisconsin several months ago and were taken from discarded embryos produced by in vitr...

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News, It has emerged that researchers in Britain are circumventing the present ban on all human cloning by importing embryo stem cells from the United States. The cells, stored in dry ice, were imported from Wisconsin several months ago and were taken from discarded embryos produced by in vitro fe...

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News, A British study has concluded that some unexplained miscarriages could be due to a surge of oxygen which hits an unborn child between the eighth and 15th weeks of pregnancy. Graham Burton of Cambridge University and Eric Jauniaux of University College, London, published their findings in New...

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News, A British study has concluded that some unexplained miscarriages could be due to a surge of oxygen which hits an unborn child between the eighth and 15th weeks of pregnancy. Graham Burton of Cambridge University and Eric Jauniaux of University College, London, published their findings in...

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