
RCGP Chairman Clare Gerada moves to gag doctors on ‘assisted dying’
I’ve had a flurry of correspondence recently from GPs expressing deep concern at RCGP Council Chair…

Changing Ireland’s abortion law will not save any mothers and could lead to 11,000 more abortions annually
 Savita Halappanavar was an Indian woman who tragically died on 28 October in Galway University Hospital,…

Savita’s death is a tragedy but is not a reason to change Ireland’s law on abortion
Savita Halappanavar (pictured) was an Indian woman who tragically died in Ireland from overwhelming infection…

BBC Panorama findings will heighten calls for review of Tony Bland judgement
Tuesday night’s BBC Panorama told the story of a Canadian man who was believed to have been in a vegetative…

Japanese Robots proposed as solution for declining birthrate and workforce and increasing elderly care needs
I have previously highlighted Japan’s huge demographic time bomb and the fact that virtually all Western…

Obama re-elected  what will it mean for beginning of life policy?
The man whom pro-life leaders have called ‘the most pro-abortion president in US history’ has been…

Same sex parenting vs heterosexual parenting: research revisited
A controversial study on gay parenting published this summer generated such an outcry of protest on its…

Social myths about abortion after rape
The Elliott Institute has just published a powerful article titled ‘My Rape Pregnancy and My Furor…

BMA issues disingenuous statement on pregnancy counselling
Last week there was some media coverage, and plenty of twitter action, on a Parliamentary debate about…

Defeat for pro-euthanasia lobby as Massachusetts rejects assisted suicide on ballot
The US state of Massachusetts voted 51%-49% in a referendum last night to reject the legalisation of…