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Dr Peter Saunders2011-02-05 10:10:102024-01-22 09:21:09Senior neonatologist brands official report on fetal awareness as ‘Emperor’s new clothes’
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-02-05 10:10:102024-01-22 09:21:09Senior neonatologist brands official report on fetal awareness as ‘Emperor’s new clothes’
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-02-03 10:14:262024-01-22 09:21:09Morning-after pills don’t cut teen pregnancy rates
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Dr Vicky Lavy2011-02-02 00:01:192024-01-22 09:20:46CMF members blog from Haiti
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-01-26 11:52:002024-01-22 09:21:08Euthanasia bills fall at first hurdle
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-19 13:43:172024-01-22 09:19:28The ‘ultrasound’ Jesus reminds us of the meaning of the incarnation
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-18 10:21:592024-01-22 09:19:25How common is abortion to save the life of the mother?
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-18 09:48:542024-01-22 09:19:27A new exhibition touring the United States is highlighting lessons to be learned from the Nazi doctors
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-17 02:32:482024-01-22 09:19:26Two letters to the Times regarding Lord Falconer’s Commission on Assisted Dying
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-14 15:47:392024-01-22 09:19:26Former Lord Chancellor misrepresents law on assisted suicide in national newspaper
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Steve Fouch2010-12-13 14:07:532024-01-22 09:21:08ICMDA HIV Initiative 2010 Dignity and Right to Health Awards
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-12 12:23:042024-01-22 09:19:25More knowledge of fetal development leads to new US laws making late abortion illegal
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-12 09:39:482024-01-22 09:19:24Chile’s president says country’s respect for life mandated great efforts to save lives of Chilean miners
Troubled times: Is God giving Britain over?
The rollercoaster journey of the last twelve months has left many UK citizens feeling dislocated and anxious about the future of our country. Political events – Brexit, Trump, a snap general election, a hung parliament, confidence and supply arrangements and the Queen’s speech – have laid bare deep divisions between old and young, right and […]
A personal response to the BMA vote on abortion
I was saddened to hear that the BMA have voted to recommend the decriminalisation of abortion. Having lost a baby at 29 weeks, I know only too well the effect that these laws have on those, who like me, refuse a termination and who lose a child. In the summer of 2015, at 23 weeks […]
Reflections on the BMA’s vote to ‘decriminalise’ abortion – ten key observations
Last week delegates at the BMA annual representative meeting (ARM) voted to support the decriminalisation of abortion. You can listen to the whole debate here and five brilliant two-minute speeches against the motion here. Two previous blog posts give the background in more detail here and here. The opposition speakers spoke with grace, eloquence and […]
How should Christians respond to the transgender issue?
You might think that there are few things more self-evident than the fact that human beings are divided into two distinct types, male and female. Females have XX chromosomes, female hormones, breasts, ovaries, wombs and vaginas. Males have XY chromosomes, male hormones, testes and penises. Don’t they? But now we’re being told that gender is […]
Where have all the nurses gone? NMC survey reveals an accelerating attrition of nurses and midwives
It seems sadly ironic that a week after Lord Crisp announced plans for a worldwide campaign to promote the value of nursing in global health and development, the UK’s Nursing and Midwifery Council announced that in the last year 1,783 more nurses and midwives have left the professions than joined for the first time in over a […]
Over 1,000 doctors reject BMA abortion decriminalisation motion – this is why
Over 1,000 doctors and medical students have signed an open letter urging the British Medical Association (BMA) to reject a motion calling for the complete decriminalisation of abortion. Also, just under 21,000 members of the public have signed a similar petition on Citizen Go. Motion 50, which I have already reviewed in some detail, will […]
Good news for freedom of conscience in the UK
For some time we have been concerned at CMF about a possible weakening of conscience protection for pharmacists in the UK. In December 2016 the pharmacy regulator, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), issued new draft standards and guidance that changed a previous ‘right to refer’ with a ‘duty to dispense’. The GPhC admitted at the […]
Three myths about Christianity and sexuality
A gay war hero from World War II is chemically castrated, leading to his suicide (The Imitation Game). A convent schoolgirl falls pregnant, so the nuns have her child adopted, which breaks her heart (Philomena). Gay activists against social injustice are victimised by straight society, but show generosity to others (Milk, Pride). Journalists reveal a […]
Doctors debate the complete decriminalisation of abortion at BMA ARM
Doctors could back the complete decriminalisation of abortion in Britain next week. On Tuesday 27 June the British Medical Association annual representative meeting in Bournemouth will vote on a motion seeking to end all legal restrictions on abortion. Currently, abortion remains illegal in Britain under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. Under this law both mothers attempting to […]
Reforming the WHO: Can the new General Secretary really be an agent for positive change?
Overshadowed by the coverage of the horrific terrorist attack in Manchester last month, the British media largely missed the election of the new General Secretary of the World Health Organisation on 23 May: Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (or Dr Tedros, as he now styles himself). A former Minister of Health in Ethiopia, he will become the first […]
Biotechnology companies positioning themselves to make millions from eugenic abortions
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is warning that a new screening test for pregnant women, Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening (NIPT), which is due to be rolled out next year on the NHS, could lead to babies being aborted because they are the wrong gender or have other ‘undesirable’ characteristics. Professor Tom Shakespeare, chair of the Nuffield […]
Getting conscience right and wrong
Can a doctor refuse to participate in something he finds unconscionable? Is this an important liberty to be safeguarded, or an unwarranted privilege which interferes with patient care? Must we leave our conscience at the door of our professional life? These some of the questions currently being discussed in the medical ethics literature. It should […]