News, A high court judge has approved the withdrawal of life-support from a married father of three who has been in a persistent vegetative state for nearly four years. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss noted that the man (who cannot be named) had previously expressed the wish that he should not be ...

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News, A high court judge has approved the withdrawal of life-support from a married father of three who has been in a persistent vegetative state for nearly four years. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss noted that the man (who cannot be named) had previously expressed the wish that he should not be a bu...

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News, Yesterday's Sunday Times predicts that a government enquiry will recommend legalisation of therapeutic human cloning in the UK. Embryonic clones would be used to generate stem cells, and tissue from such cells might be introduced to a patient's body without the risk of rejection. Professor J...

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News, Yesterday's Sunday Times predicts that a government enquiry will recommend legalisation of therapeutic human cloning in the UK. Embryonic clones would be used to generate stem cells, and tissue from such cells might be introduced to a patient's body without the risk of rejection. Profess...

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News, The Life organisation is alleging that abortion providers such as Marie Stopes International are railroading women into having terminations. Mr Peter Garrett, research director, said that quick abortions during women's lunch-hours could cause post-abortion trauma. He pointed out that fin...

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News, The Life organisation is alleging that abortion providers such as Marie Stopes International are railroading women into having terminations. Mr Peter Garrett, research director, said that quick abortions during women's lunch-hours could cause post-abortion trauma. He pointed out that financi...

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News, A husband has abandoned legal attempts to have his comatose wife starved to death after she showed signs of consciousness. Mr Neil Lane of Staffordshire, England, asserts that Mrs Lorraine Lane and he had concluded a "right to die" pact. Mrs Lane had been unconscious since February of last y...

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News, A husband has abandoned legal attempts to have his comatose wife starved to death after she showed signs of consciousness. Mr Neil Lane of Staffordshire, England, asserts that Mrs Lorraine Lane and he had concluded a "right to die" pact. Mrs Lane had been unconscious since February of la...

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News, Nearly one third of women in Britain who get pregnant continue to drink during pregnancy, while one third of their partners smoke during the pregnancy, according to a poll of 2,000 women. It has been suggested, in the light of the Fit for Pregnancy survey, that nearly three quarters of B...

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News, Nearly one third of women in Britain who get pregnant continue to drink during pregnancy, while one third of their partners smoke during the pregnancy, according to a poll of 2,000 women. It has been suggested, in the light of the Fit for Pregnancy survey, that nearly three quarters of Briti...

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News, The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has challenged an attempt by Marie Stopes International to link an alleged increase in abortions in Britain to difficulties with obtaining morning-after pills. Paul Tully, general secretary, said that, even though the number of prescriptions ...

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News, The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has challenged an attempt by Marie Stopes International to link an alleged increase in abortions in Britain to difficulties with obtaining morning-after pills. Paul Tully, general secretary, said that, even though the number of prescripti...

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News, Anti-euthanasia legislation has successfully completed the second stage of its scrutiny by the UK Parliament. The committee examining the Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill yesterday voted that it should proceed to its report stage, which will take place on 14 April. The S...

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News, Anti-euthanasia legislation has successfully completed the second stage of its scrutiny by the UK Parliament. The committee examining the Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill yesterday voted that it should proceed to its report stage, which will take place on 14 April. The Socie...

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News, A trial scheme under which morning-after pills are given without prescription has been extended so that it will continue until June and will be targeted at teenagers. Ms Edna Robinson, head of the health authority in north-west England which is running the trial, said that it was immoral not...

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News, A trial scheme under which morning-after pills are given without prescription has been extended so that it will continue until June and will be targeted at teenagers. Ms Edna Robinson, head of the health authority in north-west England which is running the trial, said that it was immoral...

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News, The US state department has criticised the United Nations for working with the Yugoslavian government to promote abortion among Kosovars. Ms Elaine Jones, a department official, said that the UN's population fund had supplied vacuum aspirators (for abortions), morning-after pills and int...

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News, The US state department has criticised the United Nations for working with the Yugoslavian government to promote abortion among Kosovars. Ms Elaine Jones, a department official, said that the UN's population fund had supplied vacuum aspirators (for abortions), morning-after pills and intra-u...

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News, People undergoing voluntary euthanasia stand a one-in-four chance of having a distressing experience, according to a Dutch survey. Doctors often have to administer [further] drugs to hasten death. Patients can wake from induced comas and suffer from vomiting and fits. Alert, the British anti...

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News, People undergoing voluntary euthanasia stand a one-in-four chance of having a distressing experience, according to a Dutch survey. Doctors often have to administer [further] drugs to hasten death. Patients can wake from induced comas and suffer from vomiting and fits. Alert, the British ...

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