http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 21 May 2013 18:48:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/30/are-we-stumbling-towards-a-society-with-no-children-being-born-with-down-syndrome/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/30/are-we-stumbling-towards-a-society-with-no-children-being-born-with-down-syndrome/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:00:26 +0000 Kieron Smith http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26871 Down Syndrome (DS) is back in the news again with a discussion which was broadcast on ITV’s This Morning last week. I think there are some big issues here which I will return to in a moment – however I need a moment’s indulgence to address a couple of errors of fact in the piece, which are [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/30/are-we-stumbling-towards-a-society-with-no-children-being-born-with-down-syndrome/feed/ 184 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/10/pregnancy-is-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-teenage-girls-in-the-developing-world/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/10/pregnancy-is-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-teenage-girls-in-the-developing-world/#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:00:31 +0000 Marie Staunton http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25986 The family planning world is meeting in London this week to make one straightforward request – give 120 million women in the world’s poorest countries access to contraception. Their reasoning is basic: ‘It’s mortality, stupid’. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/10/pregnancy-is-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-teenage-girls-in-the-developing-world/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/15/vaginamovielines-using-the-v-word-to-tackle-anti-abortion-laws/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/15/vaginamovielines-using-the-v-word-to-tackle-anti-abortion-laws/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:40:18 +0000 Nicky Clark http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25322 Rep Lisa Brown caused outrage and the creation of two hashtags on twitter today after indulging in behaviour deemed so “shocking” that the speaker had no option but to silence her from any further participation in debate on the House floor.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/15/vaginamovielines-using-the-v-word-to-tackle-anti-abortion-laws/feed/ 90 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/10/sex-selective-abortions-in-taiwan/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/10/sex-selective-abortions-in-taiwan/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:40:45 +0000 Simon Cotterill http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=20262 Last year, Taiwan’s fertility rate became the world’s lowest, dropping from 1.03 in 2010 to a record low of just 0.9 in 2011. The government blamed the decreasing birth rate on people’s superstitions about which zodiac years were best for bearing children. It seems many people were waiting for the year of the dragon, which starts next week and is considered a particularly auspicious period to be born in.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/10/sex-selective-abortions-in-taiwan/feed/ 13 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/22/coarse-sex-and-cheap-lives/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/22/coarse-sex-and-cheap-lives/#comments Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:00:14 +0000 Clare Murphy http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=17749 Women in the UK wait longer than anyone else to start a family, sometimes making use of abortion as a backup to contraception to control fertility on the way. Is this reflective of a culture of unadulterated self-centredness, or a society, which, far from showing disregard for human life, takes the decision to have a child very seriously indeed?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/22/coarse-sex-and-cheap-lives/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/13/the-case-for-%e2%80%98home-abortions%e2%80%99/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/13/the-case-for-%e2%80%98home-abortions%e2%80%99/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:22:09 +0000 Ann Furedi http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=7752 Early Medical Abortion (EMA, aka the abortion pill) is a simple and safe procedure for abortion in the first nine weeks of pregnancy. The treatment involves taking two sets of pills, up to 48 hours apart, to induce a miscarriage.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/13/the-case-for-%e2%80%98home-abortions%e2%80%99/feed/ 7 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/11/28/what-makes-life-sacred/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/11/28/what-makes-life-sacred/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:00:30 +0000 Dr Stuart Derbyshire http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=6555 From the “pro-life” movement to abortion rights campaigners, from animal rights activists to those lobbying for legal euthanasia, everybody seems to share a view that life is sacred. But what does it actually mean to say that life is “sacred”?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/11/28/what-makes-life-sacred/feed/ 8 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/10/25/bad-timing-repeat-abortions-are-on-the-rise/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/10/25/bad-timing-repeat-abortions-are-on-the-rise/#comments Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:59:25 +0000 Ilona Burton http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=5607 The number of young women having at least one abortion is on the rise, demonstrating clearly that Government policies are failing. The Department of Health released new information that worryingly, over 20,000 women under 25 had at least two abortions over the last year; with around 3,800 having four or more.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/10/25/bad-timing-repeat-abortions-are-on-the-rise/feed/ 13 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/05/24/advertising-abortion/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/05/24/advertising-abortion/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 22:51:15 +0000 Ilona Burton http://catherineib.livejournal.com/45468.html http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/05/24/advertising-abortion/feed/ 0