News, The Northern Ireland legislative assembly is due to debate the abortion issue today. Mr Jim Wells, a Democratic Unionist member for South Down, said that the British government had hinted that it wants to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland, even though "most Catholics and P...

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Northern Ireland Assembly rejects abortion Westminster, --The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) today welcomed the rejection by the Northern Ireland Assembly of any move to introduce liberal abortion in the province. Speaking after this afternoon's debate, Mrs Betty Gibson, chairw...

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News, The Northern Ireland legislative assembly is due to debate the abortion issue today. Mr Jim Wells, a Democratic Unionist member for South Down, said that the British government had hinted that it wants to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland, even though "most Catholics and Prote...

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News, The Catholic bishops of Ireland have said that they should be allowed to appear before the [Oireachtas] committee currently looking into the abortion issue so that they can express their views in public. Representatives from many groups and organisations expressed their views at public heari...

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News, The Catholic bishops of Ireland have said that they should be allowed to appear before the [Oireachtas] committee currently looking into the abortion issue so that they can express their views in public. Representatives from many groups and organisations expressed their views at public h...

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News, The Daily Telegraph newspaper in Britain reported today that "a furious Whitehall row is already raging about whether the government should approve the cloning of human embryos for research." Journalist Rachel Sylvester also revealed that a report commissioned by Alan Milburn, the secret...

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News, The Daily Telegraph newspaper in Britain reported today that "a furious Whitehall row is already raging about whether the government should approve the cloning of human embryos for research." Journalist Rachel Sylvester also revealed that a report commissioned by Alan Milburn, the secretary ...

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News, The governor of Illinois has vetoed a pro-life bill which would have stopped tax-funded abortions. Governor George Ryan, who has consistently claimed to be pro-life, cited his concerns for women's health because no 'health exception' was included in the bill. Backers of the legislation could...

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News, The governor of Illinois has vetoed a pro-life bill which would have stopped tax-funded abortions. Governor George Ryan, who has consistently claimed to be pro-life, cited his concerns for women's health because no 'health exception' was included in the bill. Backers of the legislation c...

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News, A columnist in the Daily Express newspaper in Britain has praised the Family Planning Association's new booklet on abortion for "taking the hysteria out of the debate, coolly calling the 'unborn child' a foetus". Jenni Murray claimed that "anti-abortionists had had free access to young m...

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News, A columnist in the Daily Express newspaper in Britain has praised the Family Planning Association's new booklet on abortion for "taking the hysteria out of the debate, coolly calling the 'unborn child' a foetus". Jenni Murray claimed that "anti-abortionists had had free access to young minds...

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News, Following all-night negotiations in New York, the United Nations meeting to review implementation of the 1995 Beijing Women's Conference ended on Saturday without incorporating stronger language on access to abortions and so-called sexual rights. Pro-life commentators claimed a significant v...

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News, Following all-night negotiations in New York, the United Nations meeting to review implementation of the 1995 Beijing Women's Conference ended on Saturday without incorporating stronger language on access to abortions and so-called sexual rights. Pro-life commentators claimed a significa...

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News, The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has reacted strongly to a new booklet about abortion for children as young as 14. Paul Tully, the society's general secretary, described 'Abortion - just so you know' as "an abuse of women". He warned of the Family Planning Association bo...

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Abortion booklet "abuse of children" Westminster, --Serious errors appear in a booklet promoting abortion for schoolgirls by the Family Planning Association, the leading UK abortion-promotion body. The booklet is misleading both on factual matters and health issues. "We regard this booklet as an abu...

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News, The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has reacted strongly to a new booklet about abortion for children as young as 14. Paul Tully, the society's general secretary, described 'Abortion - just so you know' as "an abuse of women". He warned of the Family Planning Association bookle...

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News, A record number of women from the Irish Republic had abortions in Britain last year. The provisional figures released by the Office for National Statistics in England indicated that 6,214 women from the Republic of Ireland had abortions in 1999, compared with 5,891 in 1998. This equates to n...

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News, A record number of women from the Irish Republic had abortions in Britain last year. The provisional figures released by the Office for National Statistics in England indicated that 6,214 women from the Republic of Ireland had abortions in 1999, compared with 5,891 in 1998. This equates ...

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News, Provisional figures indicate that the total number of abortions carried out in England and Wales last year fell for the first time since 1995. There were a reported 173,696 abortions in 1999, compared with 177,871 in 1998. In 1995 there were 154,315 abortions, rising to 167,916 in 1996 a...

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News, Provisional figures indicate that the total number of abortions carried out in England and Wales last year fell for the first time since 1995. There were a reported 173,696 abortions in 1999, compared with 177,871 in 1998. In 1995 there were 154,315 abortions, rising to 167,916 in 1996 and 1...

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