Outrage from churches over euthanasia on newborns
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Roman Catholic organisations and the Vatican have reacted with outrage to the news that a hospital in the Netherlands has been carrying out &quot;mercy killings&quot; on newborn babies.
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Dutch health officials are considering guidelines doctors could follow for euthanizing terminally ill people &quot;with no free will,&quot; including children, the severely mentally retarded and patients in irreversible comas.
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The Vatican urges Catholics to stop donating to Amnesty International, saying it promotes abortion.
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The Pope is expected to abolish the state of limbo for babies that die before baptism. Send us your views.
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Vatican theologians are leaning toward revising centuries-old teaching that babies who die without baptism go to limbo instead of heaven, officials said Friday.
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Attorneys for the parents of a woman at the center of a right-to-die case argued Thursday she would have been profoundly affected by new Catholic teachings on end-of-life issues.
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British public in danger of losing its 'moral focus' on abortion, says Archbishop of Canterbury.
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In 2001, the Netherlands became the first (only?) country in the west to permit "mercy killings". The law only allows such killings in very particular circumstances - a doctor can terminate the life of a person who was in great pain and had no hope of recovery. In addition, the law requires the informed consent of the patient.   A hospital in the Netherlands has asked to dispense with that annoying part about consent - and the equally annoying part about pain.
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The Vatican argues that condoms are unacceptable for curbing the spread of disease because they violate church teachings against birth control.
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Legal authorities in Britain faced an ethical dilemma over whether doctors should continue to prolong the life of a nine-month-old baby who suffers from a rare genetic disorder.
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Compassion would seem to be an easy sell. Who could be against adoption and AIDS research? Who could object to attacks on the scourge of breast cancer or the evil of Soviet-era communism?
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Deeply offended and worried about gun crime in its midst, the Church of England on Sunday mulled taking legal action against Sony Corp. for featuring a cathedral in a violent computer game.
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A Londonderry hospital is at the centre of a major probe into the sudden deaths of four newborn babies.
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Major reform of the way sudden infant deaths are investigated has been demanded in efforts to prevent parents being wrongly accused of killing their own babies.
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Pope Benedict on Sunday renewed his appeal to Catholics to reject abortion and euthanasia, saying life was God-given and could not be cut short under "the guise of human compassion".
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Roman Catholic Church leaders say they are frustrated with Rudolph W. Giulianiâs position on abortion.
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The inclusion of prayers calling for conversions has led to sharp criticism of the Vatican.