Published on
21 September 2011
The Government is currently undertaking a consultation about the National Policy Framework for house-building. The aim is to simplify the policies binding local councils and house-builders. The responses of groups such as the National Trust, Woodland Trust and Campaign for the Protection of Rural England have – predictably – been negative. The National Trust is […]
Published on
7 September 2011
Posted in Abortion, British Politics, Human Life, Public Policy
The amendment tabled by MPs Nadine Dorries and Frank Field to the Health and Social Care Bill has provoked much media controversy. It would hardly be an exaggeration to suggest that this one amendment, among the hundreds proposed, has come altogether to dominate coverage. To a casual reader of the amendment as tabled it is […]
Published on
20 June 2011
Posted in Christianity, Ethics in the Media, Euthanasia, Freedom, Human Life, Liberty, Moral Philosophy
From a Guest Blogger: Terry Pratchett’s recent documentary Choosing to Die is rightly controversial. When such a prolific writer as Pratchett, suffering from Alzheimer’s, makes a television programme of such emotional intensity as this one, on such a delicate topic as suicide, it is difficult to know exactly how to respond. Having watched most of […]
Published on
6 June 2011
Posted in Euthanasia, Human Life, Social Commentary
A report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) into the standard of patient care in hospitals and nursing homes has been dubbed by one commentator as a ‘perfect storm’ for euthanasia advocates, and cited as evidence of the growing ‘culture of death’ enveloping health care. Anthony Ozimic, who has previously studied the effect of abortion […]
Published on
14 March 2011
Posted in Conscience, Euthanasia, Human Life, Human Rights, Moral Philosophy
From a guest blogger: A sculpture inside the European Parliament in Brussels is said to represent the interconnectedness of all people. Life in particular is a myriad of interconnected events, ideas and of course people. It has been even been said that a baby throwing a rattle out of its pram affects the farthest star […]
Published on
28 February 2011
Posted in Abortion, Human Life, United States of America
‘I am one of those who helped usher in this barbaric age’, said Bernard Nathanson, the former abortionist who died this week. Nathanson co-founded the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws in the U.S.A., and was director of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health in Manhattan, then the largest abortion clinic in […]
Published on
3 February 2011
Posted in Abortion, Culture, Human Life, Human Rights, United States of America
Type the name of serial killer Harold Shipman into the search function on the BBC News website and you will find 587 news items. Crossing the Atlantic, and more recently, try a search for ‘Tucson shootings’ and you find 37, while a search for murdered abortionist George Tiller turns up 17 stories. Type in ‘Kermit […]
Published on
9 December 2010
Posted in Euthanasia, Human Life
From a guest blogger: Consider the following thought-experiment. A particularly sadistic person subjects another human being to horrible torture so severe that the victim’s sufferings are certain to result eventually in death. The victim then begs their tormentor to diminish his or her suffering by hastening the inevitable end. If euthanasia is to be considered […]