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Press Releases -
2007
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
News Release
An Inconvenient Analysis
New report discusses wide-ranging effects of abortion
The London-based Pension and Population Research Institute today (25 October) launched ‘Assessing the Damage’, a 32-page report by its Director of Research, Patrick Carroll, into the demographic impact on society, and the consequences for women’s health, of the 1967 Abortion Act.
Speaking at the launch, which took place at the Royal Society of Medicine in Wimpole Street, London, Mr Carroll said that the report discusses how national statistical data can be used to assess the effect of the 1967 Act.
“The 40th anniversary of the passing of the Abortion Act is a significant opportunity to re-access the such a politically correct age, for many my report is probably a rather inconvenient impact on society that has resulted from this legal and cultural change. Given that we live in analysis, but it could however be a first step towards a restoration of the situation that will benefit many,” Mr Carroll said.
Through statistical analysis and comparison Mr Carroll, who is an actuary and statistician by profession, looks at the impact of nearly seven million legally induced abortions over the last 40 years, abortion’s bearing on family structure and its adverse health consequences. |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
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MEDIA INVITATION REPORT LAUNCH
Assessing the Damage: The Demographic Impact on Society and Consequences for the Health of Women of the 1967Abortion Act over 40 years
Date: Thursday 25th October 2007
Time: 11.00 a.m.
Venue: Robert Adams Room, Ground Floor, Royal Society of Medicine, Chandos House, 2 Queen Anne’s Street, London.
Available for interview:
Patrick Carroll M.A, F.I.A, Author of the Report
Dr. Joel Brind, Professor of Biology, Chemistry and Endocrinology at Baruch College, the City University of New York
Dr Greg Gardner, GP and member of the Medical Ethics Alliance (by telephone).
You are invited to send a reporter, camera crew and/or photographer.
For further information, please contact Terry McErlane on 07860862231 |
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Nurses Opposed to Euthanasia |
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News Items -
Euthanasia
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 22 October 2007 |
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Nurses Opposed to Euthnasia are holding a National Study Day entitled 'Understanding the Mental Capacity Act' on Tuesday 20th November, 9:30-5:00 at Guys Hospital. If you would like to attend send a letter detailing your name, address, telephone number(s) and dietary requirements with a cheque for £60 made payable to Ms Teresa Lynch to:
Ms Teresa Lynch (Nurses Opposed to Euthanasia) 168 Earls Court Road Earls Court London SW5 9QQ |
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UN NGOs Charge “Women Deliver” Conference with Promoting Abortion at Expense of Women’s Real Needs |
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Abortion
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 22 October 2007 |
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(NEW YORK -- C-FAM) A group of nongovernmental organizations (NGO’s) from the United States, Europe and Latin America today delivered a letter to the UN and the organizers of the just concluded Women Deliver conference complaining that the conference was more about promoting abortion than caring for the real needs of women.
The joint letter was issued by the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), United Families International (US), Concerned Women for America (US), World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations, Institute for Family Policy (Spain), Instituto Mujer y Vida (Spain), Comite Nacional Provida de Mexico, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (UK), and many others.
The letter said, “We wish to express our profound disappointment and dismay that the Women Deliver conference has failed to meet its stated objective of addressing Millennium Development Goal 5, which is to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity. Delegates were invited to attend a global conference on the causes, prevention and treatment of the complications of pregnancy and childbirth which lead to the deaths of so many mothers, particularly in developing countries, and to consider effective solutions. Regrettably, the conference agenda was so preoccupied with promoting the ideology and practice of abortion that the genuine healthcare needs of women and children were virtually ignored in the plenary sessions and overwhelmed in the panel discussions.”
Read the full text here. |
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News Items -
General
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 13 October 2007 |
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40th Anniversary of the passing of the Abortion Act
London: Vigil 27 October 2 p.m. in Old Palace Yard, followed by March to Westminster Cathedral. Ecumenical service at 4 pm.
Manchester: 27 October 2007 at 10 am. Ecumenical service in Salford Cathedral.
Burnley: 28 October at 6 pm. Ecumenical service in St. Andrew’s Church (C of E)
Annual General Meeting: The AGM of the British Section of the World Federation of Doctors who Respect Human Life will be held at 12.30 pm on Saturday 27 October 2007, at No. 27 Walpole Street, London SW3 4QS. |
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Court Upholds Food and Water for Eluana Englaro, Italian Terri Schiavo |
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Euthanasia
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
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LifeNews.com Editor
October 8, 2007
Milan, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- An Italian court has denied a request by a disabled woman's father to remove her feeding tube and authorize her death by starvation and dehydration. Eluana Englaro has been a coma for 15 years after an automobile accident seriously injured her and, this year, her father asked a Milan court for permission to remove her feeding tube.
This isn't the first time Englaro's case had been in court.
In April 2005, the Italian Supreme Court confirmed a lower court ruling to keep her feeding tube in place.
That case had also been brought by Englaro's father, who believes that she would have preferred to die. The court rejected the argument because there was no specific evidence on Englaro's views of life and death.
In addition, the court's opinion stated that to remove the tube required, "valuations of life and death that are rooted in concepts of an ethical or religious nature, which are extrajudicial."
The Italian case has drawn comparisons to that of Terri Schiavo, the disabled American woman whose ex-husband won permission from the court to take her life.
It also hearkens to Piergiorgio Welby, a euthanasia activist afflicted with muscular-dystrophy who had a doctor kill him in a euthanasia bid that is still under investigation. |
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New Study Shows Abortion is 'Best Predictor of Breast Cancer' |
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Abortion
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 04 October 2007 |
WASHINGTON, DC, October 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons published a study yesterday entitled, "The Breast Cancer Epidemic." It showed that, among seven risk factors, abortion is the "best predictor of breast cancer," and fertility is also a useful predictor. The study by Patrick Carroll of PAPRI in London showed that countries with higher abortion rates, such as England & Wales, could expect a substantial increase in breast cancer incidence. Where abortion rates are low (i.e., Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic) a smaller increase is expected. Where a decline in abortion has taken place,(i.e., Denmark and Finland) a decline in breast cancer is anticipated. Carroll used the same mathematical model for a previous forecast of numbers of breast cancers in future years for England & Wales based on cancer data up to 1997 that has proved quite accurate for predicting cancers observed in years 1998 to 2004. In four countries - England & Wales, Scotland, Finland and Denmark - a social gradient has been discovered (unlike that for other cancers) whereby upper class and upwardly mobile women have more breast cancer than lower class women. This was studied in Finland and Denmark and the influence of known risk factors other than abortion was examined,but the gradient was not explained. Carroll suggests that the known preference for abortion in this class might explain the phenomenon. Women pursuing higher educations and professional careers often delay marriage and childbearing. Abortions before the birth of a first child are highly carcinogenic. Carroll used national data from nations believed to have "nearly complete abortion counts." Therefore, his study is not affected by recall bias. Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer commented on the latest findings stating: "It's time for scientists to admit publicly what they already acknowledge privately among themselves - that abortion raises breast cancer risk - and to stop conducting flawed research to protect the medical establishment from massive medical practice lawsuits."
See the new study online here: http://www.jpands.org/vol12no3/carroll.pdf |
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Euthanasia statistics highly spun |
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Euthanasia
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Written by Peter Saunders
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
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From Care Not Killing Alliance.
The Care Not Killing Alliance has warned Parliament, the public and the media not to be misled by a report published today that downplays the risk to vulnerable people posed by the legalisation of euthanasia. The warning comes amidst fears that fresh attempts will shortly be made to legalise the practice in Britain, most likely beginning with Scotland, which is seen as a soft target by pro-euthanasia advocates. Dr Peter Saunders, Campaign Director of Care Not Killing, warned:
People should be aware that the prominence being given to this new review is part of a deliberate campaign to soften up the British public for the legalisation of euthanasia. In the Netherlands healthcare is covered by insurance, but in the UK most people rely on the State. In a cash-strapped NHS, where hospitals are being closed and elder abuse is on the rise, there is growing prejudice against the chronically ill and disabled who are seen as disproportionate consumers of limited resources. Legalising euthanasia would place vulnerable lives at risk. And the Dutch statistics, when properly examined, actually raise great cause for concern. |
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My heros: Muslim doctors who refuse to starve patients to death |
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Euthanasia
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Written by Jill Parkin
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 |
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DAILY MAIL (London)
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25 September 2007
By Jill Parkin
None of us likes to imagine such a terrible fate, but this much I do know: If I am ever in a coma I would like to be treated by Muslim or Catholic doctors, because if they're in charge, at least I know I will not be starved to death.
How extraordinary to think that in doing so - in the simple act of keeping me alive - they could be breaking the law.
From the beginning of October, the Mental Capacity Act comes into force, making criminals out of doctors if they insist on feeding coma patients who have earlier said they'd rather die.
It will be a black Monday for healthcare in the UK. |
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Slovak Health Ministry Revokes Hospital Abortion Law in Face of Effective "Right-to-Life" Campaign |
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Abortion
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Written by Peter J. Smith
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 |
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Read the original here.
Tuesday September 25, 2007
500 Centre for Bioethical Reform explicit abortion billboards had powerful effect
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, September 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "Right to Life" defenders won an impressive victory in Slovakia with the Health Ministry rescinding a law that forced all hospitals to provide abortions. Even the Slovak branch of Planned Parenthood attributed the graphic abortion truth campaign of Pravo Na Zivot for the Ministry's retreat over the abortion requirement. |
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Written by Simon Caldwell and Daniel Martin
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Monday, 24 September 2007 |
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DAILY MAIL (London)
September 24, 2007 Monday
BY Simon Caldwell and Daniel Martin
MUSLIM MEDICS SAY THEY WILL REFUSE TO LET PATIENTS WITH 'LIVING WILLS' DIE
MUSLIM doctors warned yesterday that they would rather go to jail than allow patients to die in accordance with 'living wills'.
The new Mental Capacity Act allows patients to write the wills, instructing doctors not to try to save them if they become incapacitated.
It also allows patients to give 'lasting powers of attorney' to a friend or relative who would be able to instruct doctors to starve to death a patient who becomes incapacitated.
Doctors who refuse to carry out such instructions risk prosecution for assault and a possible jail term.
However, the Islamic Medical Association is urging its members to defy the Act, which comes into force next Monday. It fears the law will compel Muslim doctors to stop life-preserving treatment or remove tubes providing food and water. |
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Ethicists: Vatican text encourages British docs to defy living wills |
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Euthanasia
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Written by Simon Caldwell
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Wednesday, 19 September 2007 |
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By Simon Caldwell
9/19/2007
Catholic News Service
LONDON (CNS) – Medical ethicists in Britain said a Vatican document reiterating that it is a moral obligation to provide food and water to patients in a vegetative state will encourage doctors to defy living wills.
Anthony Ozimic, political director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said the document released Sept. 14 by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was "highly significant" for England and Wales, where the Mental Capacity Act will take effect Oct. 1.
The act "runs directly contrary to the (Vatican) statement's principles," he said in a written statement Sept. 18.
"The Mental Capacity Act allows, and in some cases requires, food and water to be denied to mentally incapacitated, nondying persons," Ozimic said.
"This will place conscientious health workers in a serious dilemma," he added. "They may be forced to choose between continuing to feed patients and participating in a regime of starvation and dehydration." |
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Truthfulness in transplantation: non-heart-beating organ donation |
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Organ Donation
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Written by Michael Potts
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
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Commentary
Michael Potts
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2007, 2:17
Published: 24 August 2007
Abstract (provisional)
The current practice of organ transplantation has been criticized on several fronts. The philosophical and scientific foundations for brain death criteria have been crumbling. In addition, donation after cardiac death, or non-heartbeating-organ donation (NHBD) has been attacked on grounds that it mistreats the dying patient and uses that patient only as a means to an end for someone else's benefit. Verheijde, Rady, and McGregor attack the deception involved in NHBD, arguing that the donors are not dead and that potential donors and their families should be told that is the case. Thus, they propose abandoning the dead donor rule and allowing NHBD with strict rules concerning adequate informed consent. Such honesty about NHBD should be welcomed. However, NHBD violates a fundamental end of medicine, nonmal eficience, "do no harm." Physicians should not be harming or killing patients, even if it is for the benefit of others. Thus, although Verheijde and his colleages should be congratulated for calling for truthfulness about NHBD, they do not go far enough and call for an elimination of such an unethical procedure from the practice of medicine. |
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Responses to Certain Questions of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Concerning Artifi |
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Euthanasia
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 01 August 2007 |
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Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Read the original here.
First question: Is the administration of food and water (whether by natural or artificial means) to a patient in a “vegetative state” morally obligatory except when they cannot be assimilated by the patient’s body or cannot be administered to the patient without causing significant physical discomfort?
Response: Yes. The administration of food and water even by artificial means is, in principle, an ordinary and proportionate means of preserving life. It is therefore obligatory to the extent to which, and for as long as, it is shown to accomplish its proper finality, which is the hydration and nourishment of the patient. In this way suffering and death by starvation and dehydration are prevented.
Second question: When nutrition and hydration are being supplied by artificial means to a patient in a “permanent vegetative state”, may they be discontinued when competent physicians judge with moral certainty that the patient will never recover consciousness?
Response: No. A patient in a “permanent vegetative state” is a person with fundamental human dignity and must, therefore, receive ordinary and proportionate care which includes, in principle, the administration of water and food even by artificial means.
The Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, at the Audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved these Responses, adopted in the Ordinary Session of the Congregation, and ordered their publication.
Rome, from the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, August 1, 2007.
William Cardinal Levada Prefect |
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Agonising death to be legalised in UK |
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Euthanasia
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
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by Our Correspondent, South Wales Echo
DO doctors, carers and families realise that in October 2007 resulting from the passing of the new Mental Capacity Act, that euthanasia will effectively become legalised in the UK? |
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Chimera embryos have right to life, say bishops |
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Stem Cells
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Written by Johnathan Petre
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
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From telegraph.co.uk. Read the original here.
By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent Last Updated: 2:03am BST 27/06/2007
Human-animal hybrid embryos conceived in the laboratory - so-called “chimeras” - should be regarded as human and their mothers should be allowed to give birth to them, the Roman Catholic Church said yesterday.
Under draft Government legislation to be debated by Parliament later this year, scientists will be given permission for the first time to create such embryosfor research as long as they destroy them within two weeks. |
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Parliamentarian Attacks New EU Report that Promotes Abortion |
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Written by Samantha Singson
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
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By Samantha Singson
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) British Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Nirj Deva has slammed a new EU report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Speaking in the European Parliament this week, Deva acknowledged the need for a progress report for achieving the largely non-controversial MDGs of reducing poverty and disease, and increasing access to education. Where Deva diverged from the report, which was later passed by the European Parliament, was the attempt by the authors to “insert a covert agenda of abortion promotion” within the text.
The introduction to the "MDGs at the Midway Point" report states that “saving women's lives means ensuring that they have universal to access to sexual reproductive health care and family planning” and that the EU “should continue to lead the way on sexual and reproductive health rights by maintaining levels of funding for the full range of (sexual and reproductive health and rights) services.”
Deva took issue with two paragraphs of the report and urged his fellow parliamentarians to vote against them. Paragraph 41 of the report urges the EU “to continue to be the vanguard of efforts to support sexual and reproductive health rights” and links maternal mortality, low contraceptive prevalence and high rates of unsafe abortion in sub-Saharan Africa. Paragraph 42 of the report states the UN intends to adopt a new global target on “universal access to sexual and reproductive health.”
UN experts point out several problems with the two controversial paragraphs. First, the term “sexual and reproductive health rights” has never been included in any negotiated UN document. Even so, they point out that such “rights” language related to "reproductive health" has been misinterpreted by UN committees to include abortion. Second, according to a 2004 report issued by the pro-abortion UN Population Fund (UNFPA) the most important means of reducing maternal mortality is not access to contraceptives and legal abortion but the presence of skilled birth attendants and access to emergency obstetric care.
Paragraph 41, which says the UN is about to adopt a new global goal on reproductive health, contradicts the repeated assertions of UN radicals like UNFPA chief Thoraya Obaid that such a goal already exists. Contrary to Obaid’s statements, no such target currently exists and delegations such as the United States have spoken out in the General Assembly against any new targets, particularly in regards to reproductive health. Moreover, against the content of the new EU resolution, the UN General Assembly has no plans to initiate a new global goal in this area.
Speaking to the Friday Fax, Mr. Deva said, “This report in the European Parliament has very little to do with 'a woman's right to choose', and a lot to do with controlling population figures in the third world within what the 'West' feels is a manageable amount. It is clear that certain UN-backed and EU-backed non-governmental organizations which are heavily promoting abortion in the third world are more interested in culling people than in reducing the relatively far smaller figure of deaths through unsafe and illegal abortions." |
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Biologists Make Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells |
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Stem Cells
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Written by Nicholas Wade
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
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From the New York Times.
June 6, 2007
By NICHOLAS WADE
In a surprising advance that could sidestep the ethical debates surrounding stem cell biology, researchers have come much closer to a major goal of regenerative medicine, the conversion of a patient’s cells into specialized tissues that might replace those lost to disease.
The advance is an easy-to-use technique for reprogramming a skin cell of a mouse back to the embryonic state. Embryonic cells can be induced in the laboratory to develop into many of the body’s major tissues. |
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"Euthanasia by different means" |
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Euthanasia
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Written by Cheryl Eckstein
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Wednesday, 23 May 2007 |
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Euthanasia
De Volkskrant leads with a report on euthanasia and palliative care, which states that palliative sedation is being used on patients too early. Palliative sedation is supposed to be applied to terminally ill patients who are expected to die naturally within two weeks. They are given medication which makes them sleep during the final phase of their lives. |
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Abortion Foes See Validation for New Tactic |
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Abortion
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Written by Robin Toner
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
Read the original here. New York Times May 22, 2007
By ROBIN TONER
WASHINGTON, May 21 — For many years, the political struggle over abortion was often framed as a starkly binary choice: the interest of the woman, advocated by supporters of abortion rights, versus the interest of the fetus, advocated by opponents of abortion.
But last month’s Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act marked a milestone for a different argument advanced by anti-abortion leaders, one they are increasingly making in state legislatures around the country. They say that abortion, as a rule, is not in the best interest of the woman; that women are often misled or ill-informed about its risks to their own physical or emotional health; and that the interests of the pregnant woman and the fetus are, in fact, the same. |
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