News, A woman who damaged her unborn child by taking pregnancy-inhibiting drugs has been ordered by a judge not to get pregnant for 10 years. District judge Dorothy McCarter of Montana told Dawn Marie Spinkle to take a pregnancy-test every two months. If she tests positive, Ms Spinkle could go to ...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, A woman who damaged her unborn child by taking pregnancy-inhibiting drugs has been ordered by a judge not to get pregnant for 10 years. District judge Dorothy McCarter of Montana told Dawn Marie Spinkle to take a pregnancy-test every two months. If she tests positive, Ms Spinkle could go...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, The Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill made good progress during two meetings of its House of Commons committee yesterday. Amendments which would have detracted from the main purpose of the bill did not succeed. The committee's proceedings can be read on the web at http://...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, The Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill made good progress during two meetings of its House of Commons committee yesterday. Amendments which would have detracted from the main purpose of the bill did not succeed. The committee's proceedings can be read on the web at http://www....

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, Mrs Ann Winterton MP writes of her Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill: "No doctor need fear that the bill would affect any part of their existing legal [or] ethical responsibility to take full account of the patient's views, wishes and beliefs, or reduce their opportunity to d...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, Mrs Ann Winterton MP writes of her Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill: "No doctor need fear that the bill would affect any part of their existing legal [or] ethical responsibility to take full account of the patient's views, wishes and beliefs, or reduce their opportunity ...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, School-nurses in France can now give abortifacient pills to girls as young as 12 without their parents' consent. Condoms have been widely available in schools for some years yet France has one of the highest abortion-rates in Europe. The Norvelo pill is being described as late contracept...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, School-nurses in France can now give abortifacient pills to girls as young as 12 without their parents' consent. Condoms have been widely available in schools for some years yet France has one of the highest abortion-rates in Europe. The Norvelo pill is being described as late contraception....

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, The chairman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority expects that her organisation will be challenged on whether single, widowed or elderly women and homosexual couples can be refused fertility-treatment. Ms Ruth Deech anticipates that "interesting questions" will be raised once ...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, The chairman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority expects that her organisation will be challenged on whether single, widowed or elderly women and homosexual couples can be refused fertility-treatment. Ms Ruth Deech anticipates that "interesting questions" will be raised o...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, A single drinking binge during the last three months of pregnancy can cause significant damage to an unborn child's brain, according to a team from Humboldt University, Berlin, Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Washington University, Missouri. [Science, quoted in the Daily Telegrap]...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, A single drinking binge during the last three months of pregnancy can cause significant damage to an unborn child's brain, according to a team from Humboldt University, Berlin, Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Washington University, Missouri. [Science, quoted in the Daily Telegraph, 1]...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, Police have been alerted to remarks by Dr Peter Brand MP, a physician, during the second reading of the Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill on the 28th of last month. He told of how he had let a two-year-old boy with leukaemia die by removing "all the tubes". The child took 48 ...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, Police have been alerted to remarks by Dr Peter Brand MP, a physician, during the second reading of the Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill on the 28th of last month. He told of how he had let a two-year-old boy with leukaemia die by removing "all the tubes". The child took...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, British MPs are asserting that the health service discriminates against old people. More than 100 of them have signed a parliamentary motion on the subject and Mr John Austin, a Labour member of the health select committee, has called for an enquiry. The text of the motion will appear in...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, British MPs are asserting that the health service discriminates against old people. More than 100 of them have signed a parliamentary motion on the subject and Mr John Austin, a Labour member of the health select committee, has called for an enquiry. The text of the motion will appear in the...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, The composition of the House of Commons committee to scrutinise the Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill has been announced, and most of the MPs on it are thought to be in favour of the proposed legislation. It does, however, include Ms Yvette Cooper, the public health minister,...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, The composition of the House of Commons committee to scrutinise the Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill has been announced, and most of the MPs on it are thought to be in favour of the proposed legislation. It does, however, include Ms Yvette Cooper, the public health minis...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, Supporters of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children will lobby their members of the Westminster Parliament on euthanasia on 4, 5 and 6 April. They will raise concerns about British Medical Association guidance which promotes the intentional killing of patients by withdrawing ...

[Read the rest of this article...]

News, Supporters of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children will lobby their members of the Westminster Parliament on euthanasia on 4, 5 and 6 April. They will raise concerns about British Medical Association guidance which promotes the intentional killing of patients by withdrawing or w...

[Read the rest of this article...]