Abortion

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Scottish officials on Tuesday released statistics showing a record high 13,703 abortions were performed in the country in 2007, 540 more procedures than in 2006, the Scotsman reports. Abortions are legal in all cases in the United Kingdom for the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. The U.K.

... better able to access ultrasounds and sex-selective abortions. China and India have legislation prohibiting sex-selective abortion ... an uncivilized and reprehensible practice. Nevertheless, with Chinese policy limiting couples to one child, which ...

The Michigan House on Tuesday voted 74-32 to approve a bill (SB 776) that would ban so-called "partial-birth" abortions except in cases where women's lives are in jeopardy, the Detroit News reports. The Senate approved the measure in January.

... crates of gingernuts for their athletes in Beijing. What home comforts will you be taking ... five at a time. I read The Abortionist's Daughter and Memoirs of a Geisha. I ...

It's one of the most hotly debated political and social issues in America. Review a history of that debate since the historic Roe v. Wade decision.

... Sarah Steelman recently earned the opprobrium of abortion-rights advocates by calling for a ban on ... and neglect. The most egregious example is China, where a brutally enforced one-child policy has ... predict a shortage of some 30 million Chinese women by 2020, which they fear will ...

More than 60% of adults with cancer can expect to live five years or more, according to an article in the European Journal of Cancer. Yet they are left "in limbo" to deal with ongoing symptoms from their disease or harsh cancer treatments. The government said it was working to improve services for cancer survivors. Professor Marie Fallon, an expert in palliative medicine at the University of Edinburgh, said the number of people living with the effects of cancer was rising as more and more people were surviving the condition.

More than 14,000 Spanish volunteers were quizzed about eating habits, then checked over four years to see who developed the condition. The results pointed to an 83% lower risk for those who followed the diet, the British Medical Journal reported. But UK experts said the study was not conclusive. People living in Crete, southern Italy and Greece provided the inspiration for the so-called Mediterranean diet.

The study, published in the Lancet, found samples from babies who had died for no apparent reason were more likely to carry potentially harmful bacteria. Some scientists think bacterial toxins may affect breathing or nerve signals. But the Great Ormond Street team which carried out the work said the findings did not alter current safety advice given to new parents. There are around 250 sudden infant deaths a year in the UK, and although some can be proved to be due to an infection or other medical condition, the majority are never fully explained.