May 25, 2013

A new IVF milestone

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Thirty-four years after the first test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in 1978 it is estimated that around five million babies have now been born, worldwide, using IVF. The five million figure is based on official figures up to 2008, plus three … [Read more...]

BMA corrects Lord Falconer’ s misrepresentation of its position on ‘assisted dying’

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Yesterday I drew attention to Lord Falconer’s false claim in the Times that the British Medical Association had adopted a neutral position on ‘assisted dying’ (a euphemism for assisted suicide and euthanasia). In fact the BMA, like the RCGP, … [Read more...]

Why legalising assisted suicide for anyone at all will inevitably lead to incremental extension

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Pro-euthanasia activists always make a great play of how their proposals to help people kill themselves are extremely modest and are bound by ‘robust safeguards’. Dignity in Dying, the former Voluntary Euthanasia Society, is a world leader in … [Read more...]