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In this issue
Editorial
The House of Lords have just debated the report of the Select Committee on Lord Joffe` Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill. The debate attracted 70 speakers who were more or less evenly divided on the measure which had actually been dropped, but a new bill is anticipated soon...
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“Is there any evidence for an association between induced abortion and breast cancer?”
Dr. Joel Brind is a biochemist who has specialised in reproductive steroid hormones and their links to human diseases since 1972. In a paper given at Newman House in Birmingham on 13th October 2005, he began by explaining how he discovered a link between breast cancer and induced abortion in published research going back to 1957....
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Speech bt Lord Brennan on Asssied Dying Report 10th Oct. 05
Lord Brennan: My Lords, this debate should not be afflicted either by religious extremism towards the secular thinker or secular bigotry towards the religious believer. It is important—is it not?...
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Notes for Assisted Suicide Reading - House of Lords - 2005
‘Life precious' - it took one hour for one young disabled woman to say these two words through her communication aid and with assistance. But those two words were of such importance to her that she took the time and energy to say them. And yet most people would deem her quality of life as low and, as with Charlotte Maclean, (the young girl to whom her hospital is refusing to give life-saving treatment, should she need it and whose parents have recently lost a court hearing to reverse the hospital's decision) efforts would be made to ensure that her life was not prolonged...
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BOOK REVIEW: “The Soul of the Embryo”
The author of this excellent work is senior lecturer in bioethics at St. Mary's college, Twickenham. The basic argument of the book is that the Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion from the moment of conception as gravely sinful. In the words of St. Basil: “with us there is no enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.”
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Paper to Disabilities Rights Comission on behalf of MEA
Thank you for inviting the Medical Ethics Alliance to contribute to this discussion. I have been working with disabled children for a professional lifetime, and together with others in the Alliance, wish to promote a much wider ethical debate on a many issues within the medical profession and beyond.
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