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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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Steve Fouch2011-04-02 22:03:182024-01-22 09:21:26Missing midwives costs mothers’ lives
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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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Japanese stem cell sperm study opens Pandora’s box of unethical possibilities
Fertility experts are hailing a mouse study in which working sperm cells were created from stem cells as ‘hugely exciting’. A Kyoto University team were able to turn stem cells into early sperm cells called primordial germ cells (PGCs). When these were transplanted into infertile mice, the animal played ‘host’ as the stem cells developed […]
Scientists make nerve cells directly from human skin bypassing stem cells altogether
Researchers have come up with a recipe for making functional neurons directly from human skin cells, including those taken from patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The new method may offer a critical short cut for generating neurons for replacement therapies of the future, according to research published in the 5 August issue of the journal Cell, […]
Another poll from the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (aka DID) to grab headlines
The Voluntary Euthanasia Society, which renamed itself ‘Dignity in Dying’ in 2006 to disguise its real agenda, has commissioned yet another poll to bolster support for its tired ongoing campaign to legalise assisted suicide. Having failed on three occasions in the last few years to convince Parliament to change the law DID is now trying […]
Nitschke announces his latest scheme to help more Australians kill themselves
I previously commented on a You Tube video of the assisted suicide of a British couple in their 80s who died in a suicide pact at their home in Victoria Australia. Don Flounders, 81, suffered from mesothelioma, which is an incurable form of lung cancer and his 88-year-old wife Iris, who was not suffering from […]
Surrogacy raises complex ethical issues
A recent BBC News report, ‘Womb for rent: A tale of two mothers’, highlights the fact that the high cost of surrogacy in Europe and the US means that many Western women are outsourcing pregnancy abroad. The BBC World Service follows two women, Carolina and Sonal, as they come to terms with the emotional costs […]
Medical Defence Union finally publishes full version of new guidance on praying for patients
I recently blogged about new guidance from the Medical Defence Union which endorses tactful prayer with patients. The full version of this new guidance is now available on the MDU website. It makes it clear that the guidance has been released as a result of the recent case of a GP, Richard Scott, who refused a formal […]
£200k of lottery money spent on Reiki like therapy in West Midlands Hospital a waste of time and money
Back in February I reported on a BBC story claiming that ‘a third of NHS trusts still offer homeopathy despite there being no scientific evidence for its effectiveness’. I laid out a checklist for Christians for assessing complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. Today, Archbishop Cranmer (aka ‘His Grace’), has drawn my attention to a […]
Three exciting news stories about ethical stem cell treatments this month
Three exciting news stories about stem cell therapies – none of which involves the destruction of human embryos – have been announced this month. Stem cells have great promise in providing treatments for degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, diabetes and various forms of cancer. However, the British press, and especially the BBC, have an obsession with […]
Two women in their 50s with serious brain damage whose relatives want them dead. One judge has said ‘yes’ but the other is still thinking. Why?
Two cases of women in their 50s with serious brain damage went before the courts this week. Neither patient is dying, but both require 24 hour nursing care and are fed via by a tube. In both cases applications have been made to have hydration and nutrition withdrawn in order than they might die from […]
Animal-human hybrid embryos – now the government doesn’t even know how many there are
A fascinating article by Philippa Taylor on the official CMF Blog highlights an apparently straightforward question to government last week (20 July) which has exposed ‘a murky mix of confusion and secrecy from which the true facts and figures are difficult to extract’. Lord Alton asked how many ‘cybrid’ embryos (cytoplasmic animal-human hybrid) have been […]
One baby adoption in the UK for every 2,235 abortions – seven times worse than the US
Bill Reichart is a pastor and area director with CMDA, CMF’s US sister organization. He writes a blog called Provocative Church which today carries a brief article on adoption and abortion figures. He writes: ‘Planned Parenthood (ie. the equivalent of BPAS and MSI in the UK) may want to spin their purpose as merely providing […]
What is the true cost of IVF?
For most people thinking about having IVF, the answer will be thousands of pounds. Some may also consider the cost to their physical health, the stress put on relationships caused by taking heavy doses of powerful hormonal drugs or the emotional roller-coaster of rising hope and dashed expectation with each unsuccessful treatment cycle. I […]