2+ hour, 49+ min ago   (319+ words) The Hyde Amendment, first enacted in the 1970s and routinely attached to federal appropriations bills, bars federal funds from being used for elective abortions. Its absence from the White House's one'page memo on health reform has triggered concern among bishops and…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (261+ words) In a podcast series called Miss Me?, the singer, songwriter and actress Lily Allen has described a man paying for an abortion as "romantic, while also, in effect, comparing notes about abortion with the podcast presenter Miquita Oliver, with both…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (406+ words) In the decades to come, when the history of our times is being written, one wonders how this government will come to be seen. It deserves to be known as the Killing Parliament or something similar. Amid such a mood,…...

7+ mon, 4+ day ago   (692+ words) Just over 20 years ago an American scientist called Professor Joel Brind visited London in the hope that his findings of a causal link between abortion and breast cancer (ABC) would get a better hearing than in his native New York....

7+ mon, 6+ day ago   (892+ words) Last week, the Guardian's curiously-titled Health and Inequalities correspondent reported that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) had issued an alert over the effects of weight-loss drugs on contraception. The warning came in the light of 40 reports of…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (714+ words) Hundreds of woman in America and the UK are planning legal action after a contraceptive jab left them at risk of developing potentially lethal brain tumours. A study in France revealed last year that injections of medroxyprogesterone, marked under the…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (461+ words) Archbishop John Rodrigues of Bombay has praised parents expecting newborns for respecting life at its weakest, and for doing so in the manner taught by the Church. Saying Mass for expectant parents on the Solemnity of the Annunciation at the…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (756+ words) A member of the US federal commission that monitors religious freedom worldwide has expressed hope that the Trump administration will prioritise the issue as the overall situation continues to deteriorate around the world. "Our new Secretary of State [Marco Rubio]…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago   (543+ words) Catholics are launching a Rosary crusade in an attempt to defeat a Bill imposing assisted suicide on the UK, which is currently making its way through Parliament. The Bill, now at the Committee Stage in the House of Commons, is…...

11+ mon, 6+ day ago   (540+ words) New video footage shows a police officer demanding a Catholic woman walk away from an abortion clinic simply because of what she is known to believe. The officer of West Midlands Police is seen demanding that charitable volunteer Isabel Vaughan-Spruce…...