
Peter Singer backs abortion for curbing population growth
Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher and currently Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.…

School contraceptive jabs to 13 year-olds without parental consent – a dangerous and ill-informed strategy
School nurses have given implants or jabs to girls aged between 13 and 16 more than 900 times in the…

Government ministers and MPs wade in on Liverpool Care Pathway
The controversial Liverpool care pathway (LCP), a framework used to manage patients who are imminently…

The demographic time bomb is most marked in Japan
The demographic time bomb – whereby the elderly population assumes a greater and greater proportion…

Ten questions you never hear asked on the media
I was on the Radio Four Today programme last week debating Lord Falconer (listen here for Radio Four…

Specialists in Palliative Medicine need to act swiftly to respond to these five key concerns about the LCP
Yesterday I mentioned that the Association for Palliative Medicine (APM) had announced plans to launch…

Ten years of assisted suicide at Dignitas – another excuse for an international news story
Now that the Tony Nicklinson case is over and the next assisted suicide bills (from Falconer in the House…

Palliative Medicine specialists to investigate Liverpool Care Pathway
The Association for Palliative Medicine, representing over 1,000 doctors working in hospices and specialist…

27% of all human deaths in England and Wales are due to abortion
A full listing of ‘all’ deaths in England and Wales in 2010 is available on the Guardian website…

‘Death Lists’ – how unbalanced reporting can damage a well-intentioned initiative to improve care
In the last two days the Daily Mail has run two articles with the following alarmist headlines:
Put…