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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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Medical Students Back Abortion Conscience Rights
“…this is a profession to be proud of” says Anne Furedi, Chief Executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, referring, in some desperation it would seem, to abortion provision. However a new survey published this week in the Journal of Medical Ethics shows that large numbers of medical students take a very different view to […]
New Study of Medical Students Reveals a Strong Support for Freedom of Conscience
A study in the Journal of Medical Ethics published yesterday showed that nearly 50% of medical students support the doctor’s right to conscientiously object to treatments and procedures to which she or he has ethical, moral or religious concerns. Surveying some 733 UK medical students at Cardiff University, King’s College London, Leeds University and St […]
General Medical Council and Medical Defence Union endorse ‘tactful’ offers of prayer by GPs
The GP magazine Pulse reports in an exclusive this week on new guidance from the Medical Defence Union saying that GPs can pray with their patients as long as they ensure patients are ‘receptive’ to the offer. The guidance quotes a letter from Jane O’Brien, GMC Assistant Director for Standards and Fitness to Practise, published in the […]
A life precious to God – how to cope when you find your unborn baby has special needs
There is a deeply heart-warming story in the Daily Mail today (July 18 2011) titled, ‘Doctors told us to abort our little girl as she wouldn’t survive birth – but our little fighter has flourished’ When an ultrasound scan showed ‘a massive tumour covering the entire left chamber of her heart that was restricting blood […]
Greater than Google – final reflections on the Developing Health Course
I’m back in the office after the Developing Health Course, analysing feedback forms, tying up loose ends and reflecting on the hectic two weeks we had.What have the participants taken away from the course? These days you can learn everything about everything on the internet – guidelines, protocols, facts, figures and photos – they’re all […]
Martin Pistorius: a story about faith, hope and love through ‘locked in syndrome’
The Sunday Times today tells the story of Martin Pistorius, a South African man who ended up paralysed and comatose following a throat infection at the age of 12. His awareness began to improve four years later and by the age of 19 had fully returned. However it was a further five years before a […]
Britain promotes media advertising for abortion whilst Russia attempts to curb it
The Daily Telegraph carried the story earlier this month that private clinics which carry out abortions will be allowed to advertise on television and radio for the first time, under new rules. ‘Under the draft recommendations, drawn up by the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP), which regulates TV and radio commercials, dozens of independent […]
Italy joins Bulgaria and France in blocking euthanasia legislation
Earlier this year I reported that France, Australia, Scotland, Israel and Canada had recently blocked legislation to allow euthanasia or assisted suicide. Last week the Bulgarian parliament Health Committee overwhelmingly rejected a bill to legalize euthanasia and the State of Oregon (where assisted suicide has been legal since 1997) passed a law making it illegal […]
Abortion and mental health: is there a link?
This is a question that has been the subject of many a debate in academia, in politics, in the public square and amongst those directly affected by abortion. In an attempt to provide a more definitive answer the Department of Health and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) have recently funded and carried out a […]
Is Treatment Becoming the New Prevention Fad for HIV & AIDS?
Two new studies (one in Kenya and Uganda, the other in Botswana) were published this week suggesting that administering HIV antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to the general population could reduce the risks of HIV transmission by 60-70%. In May we reported on a study that showed this worked for reducing infection rates between sero-dsicordant couples (i.e. […]
Emmerdale injects some reality into its depiction of the sequelae of assisted suicide
I am not an Emmerdale fan but I was interested to see the way the Soap is developing the story following the assisted suicide of a character with spinal injury. As I blogged previouslythe number of people with spinal cord injuries wanting to kill themselves is very low indeed. The overwhelming majority, with the right kind […]
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis is too high a price for a perfect baby
Last week the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) held its annual meeting in Stockholm, Sweden on 3-6 July. Not surprisingly we had a number of stories from the papers presented at that meeting filtering into the media, the most notable of which was the Aberdeen study of the link between abortion and premature […]