Britain?s 40-year-old abortion law flouts the legal principles that underpin modern medical practice, 85 academic lawyers and ethicists say.
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October 17th, 2008
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October 17th, 2008
A senior police officer delivered a fierce attack on the reclassification of cannabis yesterday after a long-term user who ignored medical pleas to kick the habit was jailed for murdering his girlfriend.
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October 17th, 2008
A Dutch boat offering to carry out abortions that circumvent Spanish laws arrived off the Mediterranean coast of Spain on Thursday.
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October 17th, 2008
Academic medical lawyers and ethicists petition for the modernisation of the Abortion Act 1967
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October 17th, 2008
Around 50,000 have been made homeless by violence directed against them by Hindu extremists in the state of Orissa.
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October 16th, 2008
The number of people with gambling problems has risen by 25 per cent since Labour relaxed the gambling laws.
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October 16th, 2008
A rift has opened up between Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman over plans to relax abortion laws.
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October 15th, 2008
An Australian doctor, known around the world as "Dr. Death" for his advocacy of legal euthanasia, was refused a venue in Northern Ireland last week. Dr. Philip Nitschke, who is touring Britain with a suitcase of "Exit Bags" giving lectures on how to commit suicide, had an invitation to speak this Sunday at Queen's University in Belfast rescinded for fear that his lecture would encourage suicide.
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October 15th, 2008
BBC programme-makers tackle Islam differently from Christianity, its director general has admitted.
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October 15th, 2008
Councils are powerless to stop the spread of lap dancing clubs and licensing laws need to be tightened up, the government has been urged.