On 30 December last year, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development published its long awaited maternal health strategy ‘Choice for women: wanted pregnancies, safe births’. CMF was one of a number of Christian organisations involved in health and development issues that submitted comments to […]
In sacking Dr Raabe, the Home Office has demonstrated intolerance, cowardice, and ignorance.
A Christian GP has been sacked as a government drugs adviser after it emerged he wrote a study linking homosexuality to paedophilia. Dr Hans-Christian Raabe, of Manchester, was appointed to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) less than a month ago. The […]
Senior neonatologist brands official report on fetal awareness as ‘Emperor’s new clothes’
Here is another story that you are unlikely to read about in any newspaper. In June 2010, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) published Fetal Awareness – Review of Research and Recommendations for Practice. The College’s purpose was to update their 1997 publication […]
Morning-after pills don’t cut teen pregnancy rates
Morning-after pills don’t cut teen pregnancy according to a new study due to be published in the Journal of Health Economics. Furthermore it appears that they actually increase the risk of sexually transmitted disease. These findings are the latest nails in the coffin of the […]
CMF members blog from Haiti
Over the last few weeks, nine CMF members have been working in Haiti, as part of a Samaritan’s Purse team helping with the fight against cholera. We’ve been hearing from Abi Boys (whose posts are below), but just before the end of the trip we […]