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Time lapse imaging of embryos – exciting breakthrough or just eugenics by another name?

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by Peter Saunders Tue May 21 10:43 EST Comments (3)

Various media outlets (including The Times(£), The TelegraphBBCThe Independent and The Guardian) have published articles reporting on how fertility specialists from Nottingham have developed a radical technique that will ‘dramatically…

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Embryonic stem cells from cloned human embryos – six reasons for caution

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by Peter Saunders Tue May 21 10:22 EST Comments (0)

May 21, 2013 (PJSaunders) - The newspapers are full this week of the news that scientists in the US state of Oregon have produced embryonic stem cells (ESCs) using the same cloning technology (somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)) that created…

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Disabled newborns are being killed LEGALLY in The Netherlands: here’s the proof

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by Peter Saunders Tue May 14 11:31 EST Comments (28)

Babies with spina bifida are being killed legally in The Netherlands.

In an interview this morning on BBC Five Live on the Paul Lamb case I was asked by the presenter Nicky Campbell about evidence for a slippery slope following the legalisation of euthanasia in other jurisdictions.

In my answer I mentioned the…

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Gay man who wants to become priest takes bishop to human rights tribunal for ‘discrimination’

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by Peter Saunders Mon May 06 14:23 EST Comments (41)

Bishop Ross Bay

New Zealand became the 13thcountry to legalise same sex marriage two weeks ago.

This week the Anglican Bishop of Auckland is being taken to the Human Rights Tribunal over allegations he is discriminating against a gay man who wants to become a…

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Top bioethicists defend killing babies after birth this week in leading medical journal

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by Peter Saunders Mon May 06 14:10 EST Comments (24)

May 6, 2013 (PJSaunders) - In February 2012 two bioethicists provoked international outrage with an article advocating infanticide. 

Writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME), Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argued in ‘After-birth…

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Tags: abortion

7.6 million babies aborted in UK since Abortion Act came into effect in 1968: where is the church?

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by Peter Saunders Wed May 01 10:49 EST Comments (0)

The 45th anniversary of the implementation of Britain’s Abortion Act passed on Saturday unnoticed by the national media.

The Abortion Act 1967 came into effect on 27 April 1968. Since then, around 7.6 million babies have been aborted, now…

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Tags: 40 days for life, abortion

Catholic midwives win landmark case to avoid taking part in abortion procedures

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by Peter Saunders Wed Apr 24 17:06 EST Comments (3)

Two Roman Catholic midwives have today won a landmark legal battle to avoid taking any part in abortion procedures.

Mary Doogan, 58, and Concepta Wood, 52, (pictured) lost a previous case against NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) when the…

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Why gay marriage was legalised in New Zealand but rejected in Australia

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by Peter Saunders Tue Apr 23 09:04 EST Comments (3)

Australian golfer Adam Scott teamed up very effectively with New Zealand caddy Steve Williams to lift the US masters green jacket last weekend but the two South Pacific nations are poles apart when it comes to same sex marriage.

Australian…

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Margaret Thatcher’s views on abortion might surprise you

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by Peter Saunders Mon Apr 22 07:45 EST Comments (24)

John Smeaton of SPUC has this week published a short blog listing Baroness Thatcher’s voting record on abortion which he describes as ‘mixed, with a move in a more positive direction in her later parliamentary years’.

In short Thatcher:

1. V…

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Tags: abortion

Paralyzed man’s petition for euthanasia would drive a coach and horses through UK murder law

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by Peter Saunders Fri Apr 19 15:37 EST Comments (0)

Paul Lamb
A 57 year-old man, who was almost entirely paralysed in a road accident 23 years ago, is now seeking permission for a doctor to give him a lethal injection to end his life.
 
Paul Lamb, who up until the lifting of an anonymity order this week…
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Tags: euthanasia

How to combat flak from Christians for teaching biblical sexual ethics

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by Peter Saunders Tue Apr 09 09:41 EST Comments (5)

Anyone who presents a biblical perspective on sexual ethics on the internet will come in for a lot of criticism and be called all manner of things, especially if writing about homosexuality. 

This is entirely what we should expect. 

We live in…

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Stunning 4,620% increase in Belgian euthanasia cases in ten years since legalisation

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by Peter Saunders Tue Apr 09 09:35 EST Comments (3)

April 9, 2013 (PJSaunders) - I have previously highlighted the rapid escalation of euthanasia and assisted suicide cases in the NetherlandsOregon and Switzerland in recent years, but Belgium is eclipsing all of these countries in the race to…

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Tags: belgium, euthanasia

UK man with dementia to travel to Switzerland for assisted suicide

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by Peter Saunders Tue Mar 19 16:02 EST Comments (4)

Assisted suicide activist Michael Erwin is assisting the man to travel to Switzerland to commit suicide.
March 19, 2013 (PJSaunders) - The Sunday Times (£) reports this week that an 83 year old British man with dementia is to travel to Switzerland for an assisted suicide. If he does so he will become the first known Briton suffering from the…
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Tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia

Britain’s growing elderly population is a massive challenge which requires a radical solution

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by Peter Saunders Mon Mar 18 13:48 EST Comments (5)

March 18, 2013 (PJSaunders) - The UK is ‘woefully under-prepared  for the social and economic challenges presented by an ageing society, a House of Lords committee has warned this week.

The committee predicts ‘a series of crises’ in…

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Tags: abortion, demographic crisis, euthanasia, uk

Belgium becomes world leader in organ removal after euthanasia

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by Peter Saunders Mon Mar 18 13:39 EST Comments (4)

According to a recent report Belgium is now the ‘world leader’ in organ removal after euthanasia.

The practice of transplanting organs from voluntary euthanasia patients in this small European country has become increasingly common since it was …

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Tags: euthanasia, organ donation

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