UK assisted suicide amendment defeated

An amendment that proposed legalizing assisted suicide was defeated Tuesday evening in the House of Lords.
The London-based Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, an anti-euthanasia lobby group, reported that the amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill, which would have allowed aiding the terminally ill to seek assisted suicide abroad, was rejected in a [...]

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British scientists say they created sperm from stem cells

A team of British scientists claimed Wednesday to have created human sperm using embryonic stem cells, in a medical first that they say will lead to a better understanding of fertility.

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NZ porn king’s empire shrinks

Creditors of two of Steve Crow’s failed companies are unlikely to see any of their money again, although the porn entrepreneur has transferred the firms’ assets into another company and continues to trade.
Mr Crow blamed the demise of Vixen Direct on parallel importing and piracy. Erotica Expo was hit by poor attendance at its last [...]

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Catholic Obama Supporter Doug Kmiec Nominated for Ambassadorship to Malta

President Barack Obama has nominated Pepperdine Law Professor Doug Kmiec for an ambassadorship to the Catholic island nation of Malta. The appointment is a controversial one since Kmiec had been instrumental in persuading Catholics to vote for Obama in the 2008 presidential election, saying Obama was the “Catholic” candidate, despite his position on abortion and [...]

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One ‘Yes’ at a Time

In the beginning of our marriage, God saw fit to give us babies by the bucketful. Or so it seemed.
As much as I reveled in those early years of motherhood, having four kids under five, then five kids under six, then six kids under seven, and so on, did take its toll on me.
I used [...]

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Pope highlights ’strong link’ between life issues and social ethics in new encyclical

In his first social encyclical Caritas in veritate (Love in Truth), Pope Benedict XVI makes clear that social issues cannot be disconnected from the defense of life from the moment of conception to its natural end, and that the defense of the right to life cannot be compromised when seeking common ground on other social [...]

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