New Zealand became the 13^thcountry 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…

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…

The 45^th 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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 …

March 4, 2013 (PJSaunders) - Marie Fleming is a 59 year old former Irish lecturer who has multiple sclerosis and wants her partner to be able to help kill herself without risk of prosecution (See Irish Times and BBC Europe reports).

Her landmark…