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Scottish Catholic Church Leader Backs Pregnant Women Cancer Charity:21st Oct 08
The leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland is backing a cancer charity for pregnant women. The Andrea Kearney Fund is named after the late wife of the church's media office director, Peter...More >>
Italian Woman in Right-To-Die Case Worsens:21st Oct 08
A woman in Italy whose father wants her starved to death has suffered a haemorrhage. Ms Eluana Englaro, 36, has been in a coma for 16 years and Mr Beppino Englaro says she previously expressed...More >>
‘Abortion: The Dark Secret I Carry in My Heart Every Day’:20th Oct 08
A woman has described the depression she suffered after having an abortion in a magazine article. Ms Bethan Cole writes that the depression was "a direct consequence of the abortion, almost like...More >>
Catholic Hospital Under Fire for Allowing Abortion Referrals:20th Oct 08
A leading Catholic hospital is embroiled in a row after issuing a new ethics code that allows abortion referrals and prescriptions for the contraceptive pill. St John and St Elizabeth hospital,...More >>
Brave Young Mum's Cancer Battles:15th Oct 08
A woman in Britain postponed chemotherapy for her unborn child's sake. Ms Janine Long, who has had three types of cancer, said: "[W]hen you are given a choice of your child's life or your own life,...More >>
Catholic School Bans Pupils from Receiving New Cervical Cancer Vaccine:10th Oct 08
Governors at St Monica's High School in Prestwich, UK, believe the school is "not the right place" to administer the HPV injections to children. The vaccination gives immunity to key strains of...More >>
Antibiotics in Late Pregnancy Linked to Cerebral Palsy:10th Oct 08
A warning about the indiscriminate prescribing of antibiotics to pregnant women, to delay premature labour, was issued to all British doctors recently after research revealed that the practice...More >>
Baroness Warnock—Dementia Sufferers May have a 'Duty to Die':6th Oct 08
The controversial medical ethicist who helped lay the foundation for the UK's embryology law has suggested that dementia sufferers have a duty to die. Baroness Warnock is reported by the Daily...More >>
Study Highlights Risks to Unborn Babies of Testing for Downs:29th Sep 08
Two healthy babies are miscarried for every three Down's Syndrome babies that are detected and prevented from being born, research has suggested.
6,000 women are offered Down's...More >>
Pope’s Recent Visit to Lourdes—Urges Catholics to Oppose Euthanasia, Assisted...:29th Sep 08
The Pope has emphasised that it is for God to decide when people die. Speaking in Lourdes, France, he said that seriously ill people should pray that they might accept death at a time of God's...More >>