Breaking NewsMalta Reiterates Stand Against Abortion
Malta's stance against abortion was reiterated this morning during a manifestation for the rights of the unborn child at St John's CoCathedral. Foreign Minister Tonio Borg said that in the context of an anti-life culture, Malta would not follow the rest of the world but retain its pro-life stance. Study: 56% Of Young Adults In A New Sexual Relationship Infected With HPV
If ever there was a reason for parents to warn their teens off sexual encounters before marriage, a recent study has found it. The groundbreaking study of couples found more than half (56 per cent) of young adults in a new sexual relationship were infected with the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). Girls To Receive Pregnancy Tests At School
Pregnancy tests available to girls as young as 11 at school health clinics have been criticised by campaigners, as local authorities try to widen their availability. BBC Accused Of 'promoting Euthanasia By Ignoring Rights Of Disabled'
The BBC has been accused of promoting euthanasia by a cross-party group of MPs who called on ministers to threaten to cut off the supply of public money to the broadcaster. Infertile Men Are Begetting Infertile Sons
We normally give nature short shrift, but IVF could be storing up problems for the future, says Melanie McDonagh. Record Increase In Family Planning And Safe Abortion Services In 2009
London - Marie Stopes International’s (MSI) programmes protected the equivalent of 17.8 million couples from unintended pregnancy in 2009, a 33% increase over the previous year and the largest annual growth in the organisation’s 33-year history, according to preliminary figures released today. Stop Hank Skinner's Execution And Grant Him DNA Testing
In less than three weeks, Hank Skinner is scheduled to be executed in Texas for three murders he says he didn't commit. Despite the existence of untested DNA evidence that could prove him innocent or confirm his guilt, the state is seeking to go forward with his lethal injection on Feb. 24. Distorting Sexual Relations
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Ethical Perspectives Michael Cook
A Korean gynaecologist explains why he abandoned a lucrative procedure and is campaigning to reduce abortions. South Korea has one of the highest rates of abortion in the world, even though abortion is technically illegal there except in a few rare circumstances. According to official government figures, there are 340,000 abortions each year, although one parliamentarian has estimated that there may be as many as 1.5 million. At the same time, Korea's birth rate is the second-lowest in the world -- 1.19 births per woman -- and some Koreans fear that their very survival as a nation is in doubt. Official Documents
Protecting the natural environment in order to build a world of peace is thus a duty incumbent upon each and all. It is an urgent challenge, one to be faced with renewed and concerted commitment; it is also a providential opportunity to hand down to coming generations the prospect of a better future for all. May this be clear to world leaders and to those at every level who are concerned for the future of humanity: the protection of creation and peacemaking are profoundly linked! For this reason, I invite all believers to raise a fervent prayer to God, the all-powerful Creator and the Father of mercies, so that all men and women may take to heart the urgent appeal: If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation. Margaret Somerville
We need to understand what seriously ill or dying people require to feel respected. Harvey Chochinov, a Manitoba psychiatrist who specializes in the care of terminally ill people, and his colleagues have developed a treatment they call "dignity therapy." They identified the elements that contribute to dying people's suffering and designed interventions to counteract these elements. Hope, for instance, is very important in reducing suffering. It requires having a sense of connection to the future. We can give people "mini-hopes" - things to look forward to - even when a long-term future is not possible.
John F Morris
Once we recognize that cloned embryos possess the same dignity and worth of all human persons, we can and must continue to speak out against human cloning and call for a worldwide ban. We must remind the world that this opposition to cloning flows from the shared dignity of all humanity, and seek to hold accountable those who would undermine our human dignity by attempting to reduce human beings to mere products. Matt C. Abbott
The following is an unedited, heartfelt account of a past abortion experience and subsequent pro-life conversion of young father Timashion Jones. It comes from pro-life activist-professor-author Monica Migliorino Miller, founder of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society. *Offsite Article
Recent studies show homosexuals have a substantially greater risk of suffering from a psychiatric problems than do heterosexuals. We see higher rates of suicide, depression, bulimia, antisocial personality disorder, and substance abuse. This paper highlights some new and significant considerations that reflect on the question of those mental illnesses and on their possible sources. Irving News Comments
The gist of the article is clearly to undermine good science and medicine - and government -- by trying to debunk the scientific credibility of those who oppose his research by playing the "Religion Card", to scare the public - and the Russians - with Ghosts of Stalin and the arms race, and to promote the same voluntary regulations as those achieved at Asilomar by his old Nobel mentor Paul Berg. In other words, fake the science, destroy the credibility of your opponents, fool the public, and shove their Freedom of Scientific Inquiry down their democratic and pluralistic throats. Big BioTech uber alles! Dianne N. Irving
Great excitment was recently generated about new research studies involving biopsied early human embryos as a new source of human embryonic "stem cells", a source that would by-pass the ethical objections of other "alternative methods" being discussed lately. But these scientific findings are not essentially new or unexpected; nor do they "reduce or eliminate the ethical concerns of many". Or perhaps the authors are still unfamiliar with both natural and artificial monozygotic twinning?
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