The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind US President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, the AP reports.
A top Obama administration official praised yesterday the new Senate health care bill’s attempt to find a compromise on abortion coverage—even as an official of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said that Senator Harry Reid’s bill is the worst …

More abortions are carried out in Britain than any other country in Europe, the Daily Mail reports.
Britain has overtaken France – which has a larger population in Europe – to become the abortion capital of the continent. The rising rate has been pushed up by abortions among teenage girls, which increased by nearly a third over the past decade.
Half of all pregnancies among girls under 18 in Britain end in abortion.
The figures, collated by a …

Three babies are being aborted every day due to Down’s syndrome, according to a study which shows the number of terminations has more than trebled in the last 20 years.
An increasing number of pregnant women are being told their babies have the condition because of a growing number of women putting off having children until their 30s and 40s and improvements in screening, doctors say, and around nine in ten women who are told they …

As US President Barack Obama promised the Pope yesterday to try to reduce the number of abortions in the States, a new poll found that 86 per cent of Americans want restrictions to abortions.
According to the poll, 86% of Americans would significantly restrict abortion and 60% would limit abortion to cases of rape, incest or to save the life of a mother, or would not allow it at all, Newsmax reports.
53% of Americans believe abortion …

US President Barack Obama promised Pope Benedict XVI yesterday that he would try to reduce the number of abortions in the United States, the Daily Telegraph reports.
“The pontiff told me that President Obama affirmed his personal commitment to try to reduce the number of abortions in the United States,” Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said.
The president and the pontiff also discussed Middle East peace, immigration reforms, and sensitive bioethics matters in their first face-to-face meeting.
On …

Spanish roman catholic church have started a new offensive in a battle over plans by the ruling Socialists to liberalise the country’s strict abortion law, the Times reports.
The Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE) urged all Catholic MPs in the Lower House of Parliament to vote against a bill to allow abortion on demand, the newspaper says.
Bishop Juan Antonio Martínez Camino said: “Strict church doctrine says no true Catholic believer can agree with or support this move.” …

Telegraph reports:
Abortion clinics could be allowed to advertise on television for the first time under new proposals.
What next, shall we soon see adverts of hitmen on telly?
And don’t give me any BS about pro-choice. The time to make the choice is before intercourse, not about killing an innocent child.