Private clinics that carry out abortions for profit are to get the  go-ahead to promote their services with TV and radio adverts. Advertising watchdogs will trigger a storm of controversy by announcing the decision on Monday after years of argument, the Mail can disclose. Pro-life campaigners reacted with fury, saying the move would trivialise human life by putting the choice to have a termination on a par with buying washing-up liquid or cereal…

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Two Catholic midwives have taken a health board to court, arguing that being required to supervise staff involved in abortions is a violation of their human rights. Mary Doogan, 57, and Concepta Wood, 51, claim doing so at work would make them “accomplices in and culpable for” the termination of a pregnancy, an act which they consider “a grave offence against human life”…

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The Irish government has set up an “expert group” to study the nation’s abortion law, in response to a 2010 decision by the European Court of Human Rights that the Irish law fails to provide adequate protection for women whose lives are endangered by pregnancy. The European Court decision did not challenge Ireland’s ban on legal abortion, but said that the country should make provisions for women who face life-threatening pregnancies. The 14-member “expert group” established to suggest an appropriate response will be chaired by Justice Sean Ryan, who previously chaired the commission that produced the explosive “Ryan Report” on institutional abuse of Irish children…

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A pregnant 14-year-old girl has gone to court after her family allegedly scheduled her a birth centre appointment to have an abortion. She claims her adult cousins, whom she lives with in Corpus Christi, Texas, stopped her going to school and threatened to beat her up. Judge Missy Medary has barred the girl’s family from forcing her to make any decisions on the abortion until at least Thursday next week. ‘One family member threw her into the car on her stomach, and said: “I’m going to beat you until you decide otherwise”,’ her lawyer told ABC News…

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A European research group has revealed how European countries compare with respect to teen abortion rates. A previous study conducted by the group “REPROSTAT 2” analysed abortion rates among girls ages 13-19 in 25 European countries and the findings have placed the UK under fire. The UK had the second highest teen abortion rates at a rate of 22.1 per cent, and it has also been reported that a quarter of all abortions in the UK are from teenagers, according to Mail Online…

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The Uruguayan Senate has passed legislation to decriminalise abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. A similar move in 2008 was vetoed by President Tabare Vasquez, but current President Jose Mujica has signalled he will sign the bill into law. The legislation now goes to the lower house, which, like the Senate, is controlled by Mr Mujica’s allies. Opinion polls suggest a majority of Uruguayans back easing the restrictions on abortion…

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Ryan Bomberger knows only a little about his natural mother: “I know that, tragically, she was raped,” he says, “and that even though she had access to abortion because of that she chose life.”…

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Apple has come under fire from American civil liberty campaigners – over claims its voice activation app is ‘pro-life’. Bloggers testing out Siri, which was launched to much fanfare on the iPhone 4S in October, have discovered it replies blankly when asked for information on abortion clinics and birth control. But when asked for the phone numbers of local escort services, where to buy Viagra or the location of the nearest shooting range – it has all the answers…

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A woman in Australia has lost both her baby twins at 32 weeks gestation after doctors aborted the ‘wrong’ baby in a major medical mix-up. The tragedy has prompted critics to question why it is considered socially acceptable to abort babies with medical complications. The unnamed woman wanted to abort one of her babies because a scan showed it to have a heart defect, which doctors said gave it a slim chance of survival…

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The Government has admitted for the first time that it has massively miscalculated the amount of taxpayers’ money it is spending on abortion in private clinics. A review by the Department of Health found that the Government was shelling out around £68m more to such clinics as Maries Stopes International and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service than it had previously estimated. Health Minister Lord Howe also revealed that the Government was spending twice as much on abortions as Parliament was led to believe in the debate earlier this year about the potential conflict of interest clinics have in offering counselling to women with unwanted pregnancies…

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