News, The Irish committee currently looking into the issue of abortion has been told that adoption should be strongly promoted as an alternative to abortion. Professor Patricia Casey, a psychiatrist, and Ms Breda O'Brien, a teacher and journalist, urged the Oireachtas Committee on the Constitu...

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News, The Irish committee currently looking into the issue of abortion has been told that adoption should be strongly promoted as an alternative to abortion. Professor Patricia Casey, a psychiatrist, and Ms Breda O'Brien, a teacher and journalist, urged the Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution...

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News, The communications director of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service [the UK's largest abortion provider] has strongly supported moves to make progestogen morning-after pills available over the counter without prescription. Ann Furedi argued that the pills are safer than aspirin or paraceta...

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News, The communications director of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service [the UK's largest abortion provider] has strongly supported moves to make progestogen morning-after pills available over the counter without prescription. Ann Furedi argued that the pills are safer than aspirin or para...

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News, The bill currently before the Dutch parliament which would formally legalise euthanasia includes a clause giving children as young as 12 the right to elect for euthanasia even against the wishes of their parents. Edward Stourton, a prominent British journalist and broadcaster, has drawn ...

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News, The bill currently before the Dutch parliament which would formally legalise euthanasia includes a clause giving children as young as 12 the right to elect for euthanasia even against the wishes of their parents. Edward Stourton, a prominent British journalist and broadcaster, has drawn atte...

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News, Morning-after pills could soon be freely available in the UK over the counter from pharmacists without a doctor's prescription. The British Department of Health issued a press release last Friday with the news that the Committee on the Safety of Medicines had recommended the re-classificatio...

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News, Morning-after pills could soon be freely available in the UK over the counter from pharmacists without a doctor's prescription. The British Department of Health issued a press release last Friday with the news that the Committee on the Safety of Medicines had recommended the re-classific...

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News, The English Court of Appeal has ruled that a mentally handicapped woman should be fitted with an intra-uterine device. The mother of the 29 year-old woman had originally secured a court ruling that her handicapped daughter, described as very attractive, should be given a hysterectomy to ...

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News, The English Court of Appeal has ruled that a mentally handicapped woman should be fitted with an intra-uterine device. The mother of the 29 year-old woman had originally secured a court ruling that her handicapped daughter, described as very attractive, should be given a hysterectomy to prev...

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News, As the publication of the Donaldson committee report on human cloning is awaited in the UK, a similar situation exists in the United States. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been pondering a set of rules to govern cloning research for more than a year and their recommendations ar...

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News, As the publication of the Donaldson committee report on human cloning is awaited in the UK, a similar situation exists in the United States. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been pondering a set of rules to govern cloning research for more than a year and their recommendation...

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News, The Scotland on Sunday newspaper has reported that Dr Liam Donaldson's report on human cloning was delivered last week to British ministers. All the signs are that the report will recommend so-called therapeutic cloning, and the newspaper quotes a source inside the Department of Health a...

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News, The Scotland on Sunday newspaper has reported that Dr Liam Donaldson's report on human cloning was delivered last week to British ministers. All the signs are that the report will recommend so-called therapeutic cloning, and the newspaper quotes a source inside the Department of Health as sa...

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News, The Daily Mail newspaper in Britain today published claims that nurses are routinely demanding that elderly patients be classified as not for resuscitation. The story, which originally formed the main front-page headline but which was moved to page two in later editions, draws on a leaked le...

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News, The Daily Mail newspaper in Britain today published claims that nurses are routinely demanding that elderly patients be classified as not for resuscitation. The story, which originally formed the main front-page headline but which was moved to page two in later editions, draws on a leake...

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News, Cardinal Thomas Winning, archbishop of Glasgow, has written a strongly worded letter to Professor Liam Donaldson, Britain's chief medical officer, whose committee is soon to report on the issue of human cloning. In his capacity as chairman of the British and Irish Catholic bishops' joint...

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News, Cardinal Thomas Winning, archbishop of Glasgow, has written a strongly worded letter to Professor Liam Donaldson, Britain's chief medical officer, whose committee is soon to report on the issue of human cloning. In his capacity as chairman of the British and Irish Catholic bishops' joint com...

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News, President Clinton said yesterday that he expects Roe vs. Wade to be overturned if George Bush Jr. wins the U.S. presidency. The 1973 Supreme Court decision which gave all women a constitutional right to abortion could be overturned if the next president approves the appointment of just two p...

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News, President Clinton said yesterday that he expects Roe vs. Wade to be overturned if George Bush Jr. wins the U.S. presidency. The 1973 Supreme Court decision which gave all women a constitutional right to abortion could be overturned if the next president approves the appointment of just t...

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