'I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.'
So reads the Hippocratic Oath, which until recently used to be taken by all graduating doctors.
Hippocrates of Cos (c. 460 BC – c.…
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Various media outlets (including The Times(£), The Telegraph, BBC, The Independent and The Guardian) have published articles reporting on how fertility specialists from Nottingham have developed a radical technique that will ‘dramatically…
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…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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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…
Peter Saunders is the CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organisation with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members.
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