News, The Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill was third on the agenda to resume its report stage in the British House of Commons last Friday (May 5th). However, debate on the first item took up the whole day and so Ann Winterton's bill was blocked. Its next date for consideration is ...

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News, The Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill was third on the agenda to resume its report stage in the British House of Commons last Friday (May 5th). However, debate on the first item took up the whole day and so Ann Winterton's bill was blocked. Its next date for consideration...

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News, A third of girls and a quarter of boys who have had underage sex regret the experience, according to research published in the British Medical Journal. The survey of 7,000 children with an average age of 14 in Scotland also found that nearly one in five of all fourteen year-olds who had ...

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News, A third of girls and a quarter of boys who have had underage sex regret the experience, according to research published in the British Medical Journal. The survey of 7,000 children with an average age of 14 in Scotland also found that nearly one in five of all fourteen year-olds who had had ...

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News, Cardinal John O'Connor, Archbishop of New York and prominent pro-life campaigner, died yesterday aged 80. He has been fighting brain cancer but his health took a dramatic turn for the worse this week. As archbishop he headed the influential bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, particip...

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News, Cardinal John O'Connor, Archbishop of New York and prominent pro-life campaigner, died yesterday aged 80. He has been fighting brain cancer but his health took a dramatic turn for the worse this week. As archbishop he headed the influential bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, part...

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News, 88% of people describing themselves as pro-life in the USA believe that life begins at conception, compared to only 23% of those who describe themselves as pro-choice. The Harris poll, which surveyed 15,331 people last month, also found that 75% of 'pro-lifers' believe that abortion shou...

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News, 88% of people describing themselves as pro-life in the USA believe that life begins at conception, compared to only 23% of those who describe themselves as pro-choice. The Harris poll, which surveyed 15,331 people last month, also found that 75% of 'pro-lifers' believe that abortion should b...

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News, Two Democrat senators in Washington have called for a motion re-affirming Roe vs. Wade (the 1973 decision giving women a right to abortion) to resolve conflicts between the Senate and House of Representatives before a bill to ban partial-birth abortions is presented to the President. Any suc...

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News, Two Democrat senators in Washington have called for a motion re-affirming Roe vs. Wade (the 1973 decision giving women a right to abortion) to resolve conflicts between the Senate and House of Representatives before a bill to ban partial-birth abortions is presented to the President. Any...

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News, Three United Nations bodies have jointly published a manual which promotes the use of so-called emergency contraception. The manual, bearing the names of the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the World Health Organisation, is entitled "Re...

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News, Three United Nations bodies have jointly published a manual which promotes the use of so-called emergency contraception. The manual, bearing the names of the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the World Health Organisation, is entitled "Reprod...

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News, Two new techniques have been developed by fertility scientists which would allow women using donated eggs for in vitro fertilisation to pass on most of their own genes. Both techniques involve the removal of the donor egg's nucleus, and then either the mother's chromosomes are injected into ...

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News, Two new techniques have been developed by fertility scientists which would allow women using donated eggs for in vitro fertilisation to pass on most of their own genes. Both techniques involve the removal of the donor egg's nucleus, and then either the mother's chromosomes are injected i...

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News, Large posters advertising abortion are being displayed on the London Underground in an attempt by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service to break the perceived taboo of what it calls "the A word". The 59 posters at various stations spell out the word "ABORTION" in large letters, using pi...

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News, Large posters advertising abortion are being displayed on the London Underground in an attempt by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service to break the perceived taboo of what it calls "the A word". The 59 posters at various stations spell out the word "ABORTION" in large letters, using pictur...

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News, Christopher Reeve, Superman film actor, has called for the lifting of a US federal law banning government funding of research involving human embryos. Mr Reeve, who was paralysed after falling from a horse in 1995, said that all research should be funded and supervised by the federal governm...

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News, Christopher Reeve, Superman film actor, has called for the lifting of a US federal law banning government funding of research involving human embryos. Mr Reeve, who was paralysed after falling from a horse in 1995, said that all research should be funded and supervised by the federal gov...

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News, Concerns have been raised in Washington that US aid is still being used for coercive sterilisation programmes. Congress passed legislation in 1998 blocking US aid to overseas governments which force women to be sterilised, have abortions or use contraceptives, but Todd Tiahrt, the congre...

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News, Concerns have been raised in Washington that US aid is still being used for coercive sterilisation programmes. Congress passed legislation in 1998 blocking US aid to overseas governments which force women to be sterilised, have abortions or use contraceptives, but Todd Tiahrt, the congressma...

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