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| Anne Marie Dust, pro-life nurse |
SPUC comments on Dorries abortion debate
SPUC said the defeat of Nadine Dorries’ amendments in Parliament was a relief. SPUC had expressed serious reservations about the amendments, especially in light of Mrs Dorries’ previous attacks on pro-life counselling organisations, services which have done so much over the past 40 years to help women. The amendment was defeated by 368 votes to 118. [SPUC, 7 September] http://bit.ly/osryEy Paul Tully, SPUC's general secretary, has written an in-depth explanation of what was wrong with Nadine Dorries's pregnancy counselling proposal [John Smeaton, 9 September] http://bit.ly/rh851n
Alison Davis's powerful response to euthanasia campaigner Tony Nicklinson
Alison Davis, the coordinator of No Less Human, a group within SPUC representing disabled people, has written a powerful response to a BBC interview with Tony Nicklinson, a paralysed Englishman campaigning for a so-called 'right to die'. Mrs Davis said: "From my own personal perspective, what stands out most from this interview is Mr Nicklinson's opinion that his situation 'causes anguish the pro-life campaigners could not possibly understand'. One has to assume that he has not the slightest idea of who 'pro-life campaigners' are, and what they may have personally experienced." [John Smeaton, 8 September] http://bit.ly/oPPFLj
Head of UN women's agency calls for so-called 'family planning' to deal with so-called 'over-population'
Michelle Bachelet, the head of UN Women, has called for so-called 'family planning' to be promoted in order to deal with a supposed global over-population crisis. Mrs Bachelet said: "When we are 9, 10 billion people, what are we going to do? Go to Mars? Go to the moon?" [Global Post, 8 September] http://bit.ly/p0soeS In contrast, pro-life demographers have argued that the world is increasingly under-populated.
Other stories:
Abortion
- The real-life Vera Drakes were not so saintly [Telegraph, 11 September] http://tgr.ph/rayNMa
- Young US pro-life nurse (pictured) who took on a pro-abortion university and won [LifeSiteNews.com, 9 September] http://bit.ly/oOyNER
- US professor says bias against pro-life physicians begins at medical school [National Catholic Register, 8 September] http://bit.ly/nMUuH6
- US ex-abortion worker recounts how abortion staff laughed at dismembered babies [LifeSiteNews.com, 8 September] http://bit.ly/p8jXqe
- US mother with conjoined twins refuses abortion [LifeSiteNews.com, 8 September] http://bit.ly/nj5LZf
- Family doctor 'helped up to 30 end lives' at clinic [Telegraph, 10 September] http://tgr.ph/qrKZ19
- Dutch physicians' association supports euthanasia for loneliness [Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, 9 September] http://bit.ly/prMFsC
- New documentary shows collapse of Russia’s population [LifeNews.com, 9 September] http://bit.ly/qdDUJf
- Scottish bishops speak out against so-called 'gay marriage' [SCMO, 7 September] http://bit.ly/n34JV4
- UK House of Lords rejects motion lamenting discrimination against religious believers in sexual ethics cases [Christian Institute, 8 September] http://bit.ly/rdJImw
- Anscombe Centre points in a better ethical direction than Parliament this week [John Smeaton, 10 September] http://bit.ly/qjctqM
- YouTube coverage of MaterCare workshop, Rome [Pat Buckley, 9 September] http://bit.ly/nxxlpW
- Rising Finnish politician unabashed about pro-life views [Catholic Culture, 6 September] http://bit.ly/oCS8Z2
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