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Dr Peter Saunders2011-04-13 09:26:212024-01-22 09:21:35New genetic screening plans raise serious questions about our attitudes to disability
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-04-13 09:26:212024-01-22 09:21:35New genetic screening plans raise serious questions about our attitudes to disability
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-04-12 12:59:422024-01-22 09:21:33The Royal College of Psychiatrists consultation on abortion and mental health – let’s put this into perspective
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Steve Fouch2011-04-11 12:52:562024-01-22 09:21:28Live blog: new mood of militancy among nurses
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-04-11 12:40:362024-01-22 09:21:29Dorries and Field are not pro-life but their abortion amendments are a small step in the right direction
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-04-03 08:57:032024-01-22 09:21:27Nan Maitland’s assisted suicide demonstrates the incremental extension that will follow any change in the law
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-04-01 19:08:282024-01-22 09:21:26Welsh teenagers to get morning-after pill over the counter – a plan that’ll backfire
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-03-31 09:43:552024-01-22 09:21:27Pro-choice critics of the Dorries/Field amendments on abortion counselling are misrepresenting the medical facts
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Dr Vicky Lavy2011-03-28 14:28:102024-01-22 09:21:25Putting the last first – medical mission on the front line
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-03-21 11:38:242024-01-22 09:21:24Chinese baby girl cull backed by Britain – gender imbalance in China with British funding
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Guest2011-03-15 16:00:192024-01-22 09:21:22‘23 week babies – the price of life’ on the BBC – a review
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Seven billion – BBC brings some welcome balance to the population debate
According to the BBC, when I was born, I was the 2,909,761,661st person alive on Earth and the 76,445,556,695th person to have lived since history began. You can calculate your own number on line and if you put in today’s date you will learn that there have been 83 billion people born since 50,000 […]
New test highlights a stark paradox at the heart of prenatal testing
It is easy to garner opposition to prenatal testing and abortion of fetuses found with a duplicate X-chromosome in each cell. This is a condition commonly diagnosed as “female.” The testing of a fetus to find out its sex, with the aim of aborting it if it is not the ‘right’ or ‘wanted’ gender is […]
Abortion for Down’s Syndrome – tragic story, review of trends and personal reflections
There was a tragic story in the Daily Mail yesterday titled ‘Having an amnio test ruined my life’. It relates the testimony of Marie Ideson who was coerced by doctors into having an abortion for her 16 week old baby with Down’s Syndrome, a decision she now bitterly regrets. The incident led eventually not just […]
Population control lobby seeks to impose its agenda rather than addressing the real causes of poverty
The world’s population is due to pass seven billion on 31 October and campaigners for population control are again using it as an opportunity to promote their agenda. Back in February 2009 Jonathon Porritt (pictured), former chairman of the UK Government’s Sustainable Development Commission, said that curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must […]
The false prophets of the population control lobby and their appalling track record
On 31 October when the world’s population reaches seven billion we will be subjected to a whole host of alarmist reports about impending disaster – through overcrowding, disease and environmental destruction – and the population control lobby, led by prominent journalists and media celebrities, will try to persuade us that our salvation lies in making […]
Three horrific stories of abuse of women and children abroad raise a disturbing question
Three horrific stories involving the abuse of women and children abroad have featured in our newspapers in the last couple of weeks. First was the report that witch doctors are abducting children in Uganda for the purpose of child sacrifice. The ritual, which some believe brings wealth and good health, was almost unheard of in […]
Royal College of Nursing finally issues guidance on dealing with assisted suicide requests from patients
In July 2009, the Royal College of Nursing announced that, after consultation with their membership, they were withdrawing their historic opposition to assisted suicide, and were moving to a ‘neutral’ position. At the time this was heavily criticised as sending out a message of tacit support for assisted suicide. Furthermore it was based on a […]
‘In praise of stem cell simplicity’ – brilliant New Scientist editorial
The New Scientist editorial this week, ‘In praise of stem-cell simplicity’, gives a fantastic overview of exciting new avenues in ethical stem cell research which are opening up. It should be required reading for all UK science journalists who sadly use press releases from the biotechnology industry or briefings from the Science Media Centre as […]
GMC: recognising importance of spiritual care but struggling to define it
The General Medical Council is about to review ‘Good Medical Practice’, its general guidance to doctors, and new draft guidance is due to be issued later this month. Early indications are that the revised guidance will give more latitude to doctors attempting to provide whole-person healthcare (including spiritual care) but will take a harder line […]
Stem cell patent ruling is a triumph of ethics over commercial expedience
British scientists are kicking up an enormous stink about yesterday’s court ruling that scientists can’t patent stem cells if they are obtained by destroying human embryos. Europe’s highest human rights court, the EU Court of Justice, said the use of human embryos ‘for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes which are applied to the human embryo and […]
Changing attitudes, changing hearts – reflections on the Care Quality Commission report
I know what it is to not to give elderly patients the time and care they deserve. On the ward round at the beginning of a busy day, isn’t it easier to stand at the end of the bed of the elderly patient who’s ‘waiting for social’ and wave rather than stop and talk to […]
Gamete donors: compensation or payment?
Over the past few days there has been a spate of articles in the media informing us that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) intends to increase the rates of payments – sorry, ‘compensation’ – given to egg and sperm donors. Despite claims from the Chair of the HFEA today, Lisa Jardine, that no […]