New Assisted Suicide Guidelines Might Pressure Disabled to End Their Lives :11th Mar 10
A report in the UK’s Daily Telegraph says many people share Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s concerns about assisted suicide. For Richard Hawkes, Chief Executive of Scope, Brown’s concerns “mirror...More >>
U.S. Bishop Says Hospital May No Longer Call Itself Catholic:8th Mar 10
The Diocese of Baker has ended the Church’s official sponsorship of central Oregon’s largest medical centre, citing the hospital’s refusal to adhere to certain Catholic teachings. Bishop Robert...More >>
Disabled People Need Reason to Live, Not “Right” to Die, Says Campaigner:4th Mar 10
A leading campaigner for the rights of disabled people in the UK has warned that vulnerable people need support and encouragement—not help to commit suicide. Phil Friend, chairman of the Royal...More >>
Breakthrough: No-Refrigeration Vaccines Offer Hope to Poorest Countries :4th Mar 10
Scientists at Oxford University have discovered a way to keep vaccines stable without refrigeration. Writing in Science Translational Medicine, they say the breakthrough could greatly help...More >>
Euthanasia Demanded for People Who Are “Tired of Life” :1st Mar 10
A group of older Dutch academics and politicians have launched a campaign for “assisted suicide” for people over 70. They hope to attract more than 40,000 signatures on a petition, enough to...More >>
U.S. Abortion Centre Put on Probation for Violating Regulations :1st Mar 10
In the USA, state health officials have put an abortion centre in Birmingham, Alabama, on probation after pro-life activists targeted it in an undercover “sting”. State inspectors, who went to...More >>
Chilean Maternal Mortality Study Refutes Pro-Abortion Assertions:1st Mar 10
Preliminary findings by a prominent biomedical researcher who examined the startling decrease in maternal mortality over the past 50 years in Chile, appear to undercut assertions by global...More >>
Research Challenges Euthanasia Plan of Quebec Government:25th Feb 10
The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada has released a new paper objecting to the legalisation of assisted suicide, as the Quebec government began a provincial consultation on legalising...More >>
Weakening Assisted Suicide Laws Crosses a “Moral Boundary”: Archbishop of...:22nd Feb 10
The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that weakening the assisted suicide law in the UK crosses a “moral boundary” into “very dangerous territory”. Just weeks before final guidelines are due...More >>
Pope Benedict XVI Criticises “Tide of Secularism” and Support for Euthanasia in...:18th Feb 10
Pope Benedict XVI has warned against the “increasing tide of secularism” in the UK in his second commentary on that country in a week. The Pontiff likewise condemned support for euthanasia,...More >>