Showing posts with label abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abortion. Show all posts
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Margaret Forrester discussed the booklet with family planning staff at the health centre where she worked because she felt that the NHS was failing to give patients information about the risks and other options to terminating a pregnancy.
But after a six-month disciplinary process, during which Ms Forrester had to fight her own case and became ill, she was found guilty of “gross professional misconduct” and fired.
She has spoken out over the “scandal” of the pro-abortion culture in the medical profession and claimed that Christians were “an easy target” for “politically correct” bureaucrats in the NHS.
“The NHS has a pro-abortion stance which comes from a secular religion. It is a belief system which is aggressively anti-Christian,” she said. » | Tim Ross, Religious Affairs Editor | Friday, June 10, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Women could be given the right to have abortions at home after campaigners mounted a legal challenge against 40-year-old laws.
Abortion provider, BPAS, is demanding that women be allowed to take the second of two drugs for an early medical abortion in the comfort of their own homes rather than in clinics.
The organisation, previously known as the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, said the Abortion Act does not take into account modern advances that mean terminations before nine weeks can be induced with drugs without having to resort to surgery.
Currently women have to attend the abortion clinic to be provided with the first drug, which stops the pregnancy progressing, and then she has to return 24 for 48-hours later for the second, which causes the miscarriage.
Doctors have said it is unnecessary for women to return to the clinic for the second drug and experience in other countries shows it is safe and acceptable to give them the medicine to take at home. >>> Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor | Thursday, January 13, 2011
Friday, June 25, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: The human foetus cannot feel pain before 24 weeks, according to an official review of scientific evidence, contradicting one argument that anti-abortion campaigners have used for reducing the termination limit.
Nerve endings in the brain are not sufficiently formed to enable pain to be felt before 24 weeks, according to the report by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which had been commissioned by the Department of Health.
The report said: "It can be concluded that the foetus cannot experience pain in any sense prior to this gestation."
Professor Allan Templeton, president of the Royal College, who chaired the review, told The Times that research put forward by anti-abortion campaigners that the human foetus did feel pain at or before 24 weeks was based on evidence from premature babies. This did not apply to the foetus in the womb, he said.
A second finding is that the foetus is naturally sedated and unconscious in the womb, leading the panel to advise that anaesthetics for the foetus are not needed when it is terminated. >>> | Friday, June 25, 2010
THE TIMES: The human foetus cannot feel pain before the age of 24 weeks, according to an authoritative review of scientific evidence that sets back the campaign to cut the time limit for abortion.
Nerve connections in the foetal brain do not form fully enough to allow perception of pain until after the 24-week limit for terminating pregnancies, an expert report commissioned by the Department of Health concluded.
The finding, by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, rebuts claims by anti-abortion activists that legal terminations can inflict pain on foetuses. It will undermine the efforts of MPs such as Nadine Dorries, the Conservative who tried unsuccessfully to reduce the limit in the last Parliament, to force another vote.
David Cameron supported a cut to 20 weeks in the 2008 Commons debate, but has said that his view will be based on scientific opinion. The report’s conclusions will make it harder to justify another vote after just two years, and most Liberal Democrat MPs also support the status quo, making it unlikely that the coalition will provide parliamentary time.
A Downing Street spokesman said yesterday: “The Prime Minister will continue to be guided by the science on this matter.” Read on and comment >>> Mark Henderson, Francis Elliott | Friday, June 25, 2010
Foetus report: a debate >>> | Friday, June 25, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: The Pope condemned same sex marriage as a "dangerous and insidious" challenge to society in an address to half a million Catholic faithful.
In a strongly worded attack, Benedict XVI insisted that marriage should be founded on the "indissoluble" marriage between a man and a woman.
Addressing a huge crowd at the shrine of Fatima at the climax of his four day visit to Portugal, the 83-year-old Pope said that same sex marriage and abortion were among the "most insidious and dangerous challenges that today confront the common good."
He expressed his "profound appreciation" for anti-abortion campaigners, who he praised for defending the right to life and the "recovery of people wounded by the drama of abortion".
The Vatican regards being homosexual as a "deviation" and an "irregularity" and the act of homosexual sex as a sin.
In December a leading Roman Catholic cardinal reinforced the message, saying that homosexuality was an "insult to God" and that homosexuals and transsexuals will never go to heaven.
In remarks which outraged gay rights groups, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, 76, claimed that people were not born homosexual, but chose to embrace homosexuality of their own free will.
The Pope himself angered homosexual groups in December 2008 when he suggested that the need to save humanity from the harmful blurring of gender roles was as critical as conserving the world's rainforests. >>> Nick Squires in Fatima | Thursday, May 13, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: Laura Bush has admitted secretly supporting gay marriage and abortion rights during her husband's eight years as president.
The former first lady said she kept quiet so as not to be seen backing measures which George W Bush had strongly opposed and used to galvanise support during his election campaigns.
Mrs Bush said in a television interview that the couple shared their disagreements in private but were not "argumentative".
"I understand his viewpoint and he understands mine," she said. "I think we ought to look at gay marriage and debate it. A lot of people have trouble coming to terms with it, because they see marriage traditionally as a man and woman. But I also know that when couples are committed to each other and love each other, they ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone has."
Asked if the US could accept gay marriage, she told CNN: "I think we could ... It's also a generational thing." >>> Alex Spillius in Washington | Thursday, May 13, 2010
Thursday, June 25, 2009
THE TELEGRAPH: President Richard Nixon believed it was 'necessary' to abort mixed-race babies, newly released tapes have revealed.
Commenting privately on the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe vs Wade, which decriminalised abortion in the US, the then-president said he worried that access to a legal abortion could lead to "permissiveness" because "it breaks the family" but thought them justified in certain cases.
"There are times when an abortion is necessary," he told his aide Chuck Colson. "I know that. When you have a black and a white." Mr Colson offered that rape might also make an abortion legitimate, prompting Mr Nixon to respond: "Or a rape."
The comments were revealed in more than 150 hours of tape and 30,000 pages of documents made public this week by the Nixon Presidential Library, part of the United State National Archives.
They were recorded by secret microphones in the Oval Office from January and February 1973 and provide fresh insights into Mr Nixon's tumultuous presidency, which ended with his resignation in August 1974 over the Watergate scandal.
Mr Nixon was widely believed at the time to be privately opposed to abortion rights, though he declined to take a public stance on the issue.
The tapes capture mundane conversations about daily life in the White House but also offer new insight into changes in US society. >>> Toby Harnden in Washington | Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
TELEGRAPH BLOGS: Sometimes something so gruesome is perpetrated in public life that the sick bag is an inadequate repository for one's involuntary reaction. Under the Blair regime this was an almost daily problem. Now, however, there is a practitioner of gorge-rising hypocrisy on the world stage so shameless he makes the Great Charlatan look like an amateur. His name is Barack Hussein Obama.
Yesterday, at the formerly Catholic University of Notre Dame, this snake-oil salesman carried the gospel of abortion into what should have been the most hostile territory on the face of the earth but which, thanks to the great apostasy known as the Second Vatican Council and the self-interest of Democrat-supporting pseudo-Catholics, was a favourable environment. To the rapturous applause of those who put establishment endorsement before the most basic human decencies, Obama preached his message of consensual infanticide.
"Part of the problem, of course" orated The One, "lies in the imperfections of man - our selfishness, our pride, our stubbornness, our acquisitiveness, our insecurities, our egos, all the cruelties large and small that those of us in the Christian tradition understand to be rooted in original sin." And the solution to so much human imperfection? Straightforward: take one eight-month-old baby, pierce its skull with a scalpel, vacuum out its brains until its skull collapses - and, hey, hope! Change we can believe in. Obama unapologetically reiterated his pro-abortion stance. >>> Gerald Warner | Monday, May 18, 2009
TIMESONLINE: President Obama made a controversial appearance at America’s foremost Catholic university yesterday, where angry protesters were arrested as they demonstrated against his support of abortion rights.
Mr Obama’s appearance at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana highlighted once again America’s deep divisions over abortion and stem-cell research. It also came at a time when Mr Obama is about to choose a new justice for the US Supreme Court — the forum that decides the constitutionality of such emotive religious and cultural issues.
Before he delivered the address for graduating students at least 25 people were arrested for trespass, while an aircraft flew overhead pulling an anti-abortion banner. Graphic images of aborted foetuses were paraded on roads near the campus in South Bend. Demonstrators were not only objecting to his appearance but also to the authorities awarding him an honorary degree*. >>> Time Reid | Monday, May 18, 2009
*Only a matter of days ago, the University of Arizona refused to give Obama an honorary doctorate, saying that he had not yet achieved enough.
THE GUARDIAN: Opposing Views on Abortion 'Irreconcilable', Says Barack Obama
Hundreds protest outside university during speech / Most Americans oppose terminations, poll shows
The impassioned views of America's opposing camps on abortion are "irreconcilable", Barack Obama conceded today in a contentious graduation speech at a leading Catholic university that was disrupted by hecklers, protests and arrests.
The president was drawn reluctantly into a confrontation with anti-abortion activists who opposed his end-of-term visit to Indiana's Notre Dame university, but he gave little ground in his support for women's rights to choose. He urged campaigners on both sides of the debate to avoid "demonising" each other.
"No matter how much we may want to fudge it – indeed, while we know that the views of most Americans on the subject are complex and even contradictory – the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable," said Obama as he accepted an honorary law degree.
His address to 12,000 students, relatives and teachers at the university's sports arena was interrupted several times by hecklers, one of whom yelled "stop killing our children". Pausing while much of the audience booed the protester, Obama responded: "We're not going to shy away from things that are uncomfortable." >>> Andrew Clark in New York | Sunday, May 17, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
POLITICO: ND Response, an anti-abortion student group at Notre Dame University, announced that some seniors will boycott their commencement ceremony on May 17 in protest of the university’s decision to award President Barack Obama an honorary law degree.
In a statement, the group said that students “instead will hold a meditation in the university’s grotto” to protest Obama’s support for abortion and stem cell research.
“It’s not a political issue; this is an issue of human dignity, and it’s a Catholic issue,” graduating senior Greer Hannan said in the statement. [Source: Politico] Politico Staff | Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
TAGES ANZEIGER: US-Präsident Barack Obama hat der restriktiven Politik seines Vorgängers George W. Bush beim Thema Schwangerschaftsabbruch ein Ende gesetzt. Bischöfe des Vatikans sind empört.
Der Beschluss von Barack Obama, eine Verordnung der Bush-Regierung aufzuheben, die Finanzhilfen für internationale Organisationen, die Schwangerschaftsabbrüche unterstützen oder durchführen, untersagte, löste empörte Reaktionen des Vatikans aus. «Obama hat den schlimmsten Beschluss gefasst: Er wird nicht das Massaker an den Unschuldigen in der Welt stoppen», kommentierte der emeritierte Präsident der päpstlichen Akademie für das Leben, Bischof Elio Sgreccia, nach Angaben italienischer Medien. >>> vin/sda | Samstag, 24. Januar 2009
TIMES ONLINE: Vatican Hits Out at 'Arrogant' Barack Obama over Abortion
Despite initial "hopes for co-operation" the Vatican has fallen out with President Obama just days after his inauguration, accusing him of "arrogance" for overturning the "global gag rule" or ban on state funding for family-planning groups which facilitate abortions overseas.
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said that with "the arrogance of someone who believes they are right", Mr Obama had signed a decree which would "open the door to abortion and thus to the destruction of human life".
He added: "What is important is to know how to listen, without locking oneself into ideological visions with the arrogance of a person who, having the power, thinks they can decide on life and death. If this is one of the first acts of President Obama, then with all due respect it seems to me that we are heading toward disappointment even more quickly than we thought". >>> Richard Owen in Rome | Sunday, January 25, 2009
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
TELEGRAPH BLOG: More, as promised, on Senator Joe Biden (why should Sarah Palin get all the coverage?). Remember, you read it here first: on September 11 this blog reported a mounting backlash from Catholic bishops against Biden, Barack Obama's "Catholic" pro-abortion running mate. At that time I estimated eight bishops had come out to denounce Biden; the total is now 55. Beyond that, Biden is being trashed across every state of the Union by Catholic newspapers, TV and radio stations, and blogs. It is a tsunami of rejection.
The story has now hit the secular media. Last Saturday Time magazine asked: "Does Biden Have a Catholic Problem?" By Wednesday the issue had moved onto the front page of the New York Times. Joe the Jinx has blown it, big time. Biden has only himself to blame: he started this war, with his notoriously undisciplined mouth. He knew the dangers. Last August, Archbishop Raymond Burke, former Archbishop of St Louis and now Prefect of the Apostolic Segnatura in Rome, said communion should be denied to pro-abortion politicians "until they have reformed their lives". Gerald Warner: Joe Biden Loses Obama the Catholic Vote >>> | September 19, 2008
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
BBC: The Vatican has urged all Catholics to stop donating money to Amnesty International, accusing the human rights group of promoting abortion.
The Vatican, which regards life as sacred from the moment of conception, said it was an "inevitable consequence" of the group's policy change.
Amnesty said it was not promoting abortion as a universal right.
But the group said that women had a right to choose, particularly in cases of rape or incest.
"No more financing of Amnesty International after the organisation's pro-abortion about-turn," said a statement from the Roman Catholic Church's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
The Church's request covers funding from Catholic groups, non-governmental organisations, parishes, schools and individuals. Vatican urges end to Amnesty aid (more)
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Vatican cuts aid to Amnesty
Mark Alexander
Thursday, May 10, 2007
TIMESONLINE: A combative Pope Benedict XVI opened his trip to Brazil yesterday in no-holds-barred mood, vowing to stem the defections of Roman Catholics to evangelical Protestantism and giving a warning that the penalty for supporting abortion was excommunication.
In uncompromising remarks on “core teachings” on board the papal plane from Rome, the Pope backed the Church hierarchy in Mexico for excommunicating politicians who voted for a law that legalised abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in Mexico City, as well as doctors and nurses who performed abortions.
“This is nothing new, it is normal, it wasn’t arbitrary,” he told reporters. “It is what is foreseen by the Church’s doctrine.” He had reiterated previously the Vatican’s opposition to abortion but had not specifically backed the excommunications.
The Pope also spoke strongly against abortion during his first speech in Brazil. Speaking in Portuguese, he said he was certain that the bishops will reinforce “the promotion of respect for life from the moment of conception until natural death” as an integral requirement of human nature. Supporters of abortion have no future in Church, Pope tells faithful (more)
SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL: Pope Attacks Mexico City Politicians
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