Two Roman Catholic midwives have lost a legal battle to avoid taking part in abortion procedures because of their "conscientious objections".
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March 2nd, 2012
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March 1st, 2012SIR – Lynne Featherstone, the equalities minister, seems to think that only religious groups object to the Government’s proposal to change the legal definition of marriage (Commentary, February 25).
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March 1st, 2012A paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics, entitled "After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?", argues that killing a newborn baby should be "permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled"
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March 1st, 2012Two senior midwives from Glasgow have lost their battle not to assist in abortions following a court ruling.
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March 1st, 2012Philosopher and medical ethicist Francesca Minerva argues that killing a newborn is little different to aborting it in the womb.
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February 29th, 2012The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he believes the law has no right to legalise same-sex marriage.
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February 29th, 2012For 50 years, the 4ft cross etched into the crematorium chapel window has been a poignant symbol offering comfort to mourners.
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February 29th, 2012February 28, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The editor of an ethics journal that recently published an article advocating infanticide (what the authors call “post-birth abortion”), has responded to widespread criticism by pointing out that promoting the killing of newborns is nothing new:
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February 29th, 2012Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevent” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.
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February 29th, 2012Human eggs could one day be produced in "unlimited" numbers thanks to research that could revolutionise fertility treatment.