Philippa Taylor

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Philippa Taylor was Head of Public Policy at CMF until September 2019 and now works with CARE. She has an MA in Bioethics from St Mary’s University College and a background in policy work on bioethics and family issues.
Philippa Taylor

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The ‘new’ guidelines on abortion from the RCOG

Just as the leopard cannot change its spots, nor does it seem that the RCOG can change its controversial stance with its revised guidelines for the care of women requesting abortion. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) guidance on ‘The Care of Women […]

New evidence that patients in ‘Permanent Vegetative State’ may be consciously aware

A method of communicating with brain damaged patients who appear to be in a permanent vegetative state has been discovered by scientists in the UK and Belgium and reported in the Lancet online today, 10 November. Out of sixteen patients diagnosed in the vegetative state, […]

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Opt in or opt out for organ donation? Pressure grows for change

There have been growing demands this week for the introduction of a system of organ donation across the UK in which everyone is automatically placed on the organ donor register.  This would mean that, unless people specifically opted out, hospitals would be allowed to use […]

Some good news from Europe

The economic crisis in the Eurozone is dominating headlines, but it has not all been bad news from Europe.  Hidden in the media reporting from Europe at the end of last week was some encouraging news about an ECHR ruling that upholds a ban in […]

New test highlights a stark paradox at the heart of prenatal testing

New test highlights a stark paradox at the heart of prenatal testing

It is easy to garner opposition to prenatal testing and abortion of fetuses found with a duplicate X-chromosome in each cell.  This is a condition commonly diagnosed as “female.” The testing of a fetus to find out its sex, with the aim of aborting it […]

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