Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
3 Whitacre Mews, Stannary Street
London, SE11 4AB, United Kingdom
Telephone: (020) 7091 7091
Fax: (020) 7820 3131
Email: information@spuc.org.uk

• media releases
• news summaries
  • 2010
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
      • 31 July 2009
      • 30 July 2009
      • 29 July 2009
      • 28 July 2009
      • weekly summary, 17 to 24 July 2009
      • 27 July 2009
      • 24 July 2009
      • 23 July 2009
      • 22 July 2009
      • 21 July 2009
      • 20 July 2009
      • 17 July 2009
      • 16 July 2009
      • 1 July 2009
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
  • 2001
  • 2000

News, 16 July 2009

Recipients of SPUC's news summary have, until now, received several times a week an email with stories, each one summarised in a brief paragraph. We are now trialling a change in this service, the first edition of which is presented below. It consists of:

• a daily email of headlines, web-links plus brief related information which you can receive normally every weekday morning no later than 9am UK time
• a weekly email of the past week's most important stories, with each story summarised in a brief paragraph.

We will thus provide recipients with a wider number of headlines plus an improved news summary once a week.

If you are already a subscriber, you don't need to do anything to receive the new service. If, however, you are a subscriber and prefer not to receive the daily headline service but only the weekly email of summarised top stories, please visit the web-link at the bottom of the latest (or a recent) email from SPUC and change your preferences, unticking "News" and making sure that "Weekly news update" list is ticked. (You can also take the opportunity to sign up to other SPUC email services.) If you are not yet subscribed, please click here

Please note that this change is being trialled. Do feel free to email us with your feedback.

Abortion

• House of Commons debates abortion in Northern Ireland, with unionist and nationalist MPs uniting to oppose it [Belfast Telegraph, 16 July]
• US judge Sonia Sotomayor said yesterday neither President Barack Obama nor anyone else in the administration asked her views on abortion rights before she was nominated for the Supreme Court. [Irish Examiner, 16 July] Obama's surgeon general pick: a Catholic who backs abortion rights [Miami Herald, 14 July]
• Catholic Primate of Spain criticises proposed Spanish abortion law, saying it views abortion as a contraceptive. [Catholic News Agency, 15 July]

Embryology; stem cells

• Sydney Catholic archbishop funding adult stem cell research [Pat Buckley - European Life Network, 15 July]

IVF; fertility treatment

• A Spanish woman who was the oldest recorded woman (at 66) to give birth has died, leaving orphaned twins [Telegraph, 15 July]

Population control

• John Holdren, President Obama's appointment as science tsar, used to support forced abortions [LifeNews.com, 14 July]
• The Italian Parliament has voted to promote a United Nations resolution condemning the use of abortion for population control purposes [LifeSiteNews.com, 15 July]

Sexual health; teenage pregnancies

• A survey by Marie Stopes claims that lack of information is main cause of unplanned pregnancies [Nursing Times, 15 July] In fact, the promotion of contraception is connected with a rise in unplanned pregnancies [SPUC director's blog]
• An NHS leaflet explains the benefits of sex to pensioners [Telegraph, 15 July]
• Children's charity responds to NHS recommendation for teenagers to have regular sex [The hermeneutic of continuity, 15 July]

Maternal health and unborn health

• Unborn babies that are only 30 weeks old may already possess short-term memory, Dutch researchers report. [Forbes, 15 July]
• Woman with two wombs has given birth [Evening Standard, 15 July]
  

Euthanasia and assisted suicide; disability

• A health woman from Vancouver is seeking to commit suicide alongside her ill husband [Vancouver, 14 April]
• A task force on ethics of the Quebec College of Physicians has endorsed legal euthanasia [Globe and Mail, 15 July]
• Peter Singer, the eugenicist, proposes discriminatory health care rationing. Pro-life bioethicist Wesley Smith responds [Secondhand Smoke, 15 July]

General and miscellaneous

• UK government names anti-life Tony Blair as candidate for EU president [SPUC director's blog, 15 July]
• Michal Kaminski, a conservative Catholic pro-life/pro-family MEP, is appointed head of the European Conservatives and Reformists group within the European Parliament (the British Conservative party is a group-member). [Times, 16 July]
• Holy See representative says promotion of life should be at centre of health assistance [Deacon for Life, 15 July]

To subscribe to SPUC's email information services, please visit www.spuc.org.uk/em-signup. The reliability of the news herein is dependent on that of the cited sources, which are paraphrased rather than quoted. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the society. © Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, 2010