The BBC has been flooded with complaints after it screened Choosing to Die, a documentary showing a British motor neurone disease sufferer taking his own life at a Swiss clinic.
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June 14th, 2011
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June 14th, 2011Hundreds of viewers have complained about the BBC broadcasting the final moments of a man's 'assisted death' on screen - warning it would lead to copycat suicides.
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June 14th, 2011VATICAN CITY, June 14, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Entitled “Lies do not nurture hope,” an article in today’s Italian edition of L’Osservatore Romano has taken aim at the hype surrounding stem cell research using human embryos, as well as the failure of European governments to properly regulate such research and “therapies” derived from it.
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June 14th, 2011About 50 supporters of Northern Ireland's gay community are picketing a conference which focuses on helping people turn away from homosexuality.
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June 14th, 2011The group behind a reparative therapy conference at a south Belfast church has defended its stance, amid protests by Northern Ireland's largest gay organisation.
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June 14th, 2011A BBC film on assisted suicide was "biased", critics have said. Care Not Killing campaigners said Choosing to Die, which shows a British man with motor neurone disease dying, was "pro-assisted suicide propaganda loosely dressed up as a documentary".
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June 14th, 2011Critics round on writer and BBC for promoting assisted dying in film that included footage of man's death at Dignitas clinic
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June 14th, 2011A mother has decided to give her daughter her uterus in what may become the first-ever transplant, according to a medical team in Sweden that recently made the announcement.
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June 14th, 2011Ten years ago, the BBC was always telling us how bloody marvellous the euro was. Now – for reasons I can’t quite fathom – it’s assisted suicide. Last night we saw yet another plug for Dignitas, whose sinister clinic in Switzerland claims to allow people to die in peace. Really? I should think it’s difficult to slip off quietly, what with the noisy chorus of sympathetic clucking from BBC researchers planning their next free ad for this “service”.
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June 14th, 2011Christians question BBC's neutrality after its decision to broadcast final moments of man who was helped to die