LIFE DIGEST: Majority of Americans favors high court's partial-birth abortion ruling - 7/30/2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--A majority of the American public approves of the Supreme Court's April decision to uphold the federal ban on partial-birth abortion, according to a new survey.

LIFE DIGEST: House passes amendment giving ethical stem cell research a boost - 7/23/2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. House of Representatives gave a boost July 18 to federal funding for ethical stem cell research.

LIFE DIGEST: Sales of 'morning-after' pill boom following new over-the-counter policy - 7/16/2007
      WASHINGTON (BP)--Sales of a "morning-after" pill that can cause an abortion are expected to double in the year since the federal government approved its non-prescription distribution.       Barr Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of the drug, said sales of Plan B have increased from about $40 million a year to an expected $80 million for 2007, The Washington Post reported July 13.     

LIFE DIGEST: Advocacy for assisted suicide expanding to include chronically depressed - 7/9/2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--A new article in a leading bioethics journal demonstrates proponents of physician-assisted suicide increasingly are advocating extending the practice beyond the terminally ill to the chronically depressed, a pro-life spokesman says.

LIFE DIGEST: Stem cell debate at 'crossroads,' bioethics expert says; ... - 7/2/2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--President Bush's latest veto of a bill to fund stem cell research that destroys embryos and his order to support ethical experiments might be seen one day as part of the "beginning of the end" of the controversy, a pro-life bioethics specialist has said.

LIFE DIGEST: Vegetative state diagnosis often wrong, study shows; Planned Parenthood sued in death of college student - 6/26/2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--New studies demonstrate that doctors should be extremely cautious about diagnosing patients as being in a vegetative state and in limiting their expectations of improvement.       Research teams from Belgium reported about 40 percent of patients they studied were misdiagnosed as in a vegetative state, when they actually should have been diagnosed as in a minimally conscious state, according to a June 20 report on News-Medical.Net, an online medical news service.

LIFE DIGEST: Assisted suicide dies in Calif. legislature; Pelosi comments irk pro-lifers - 6/18/2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--Physician-assisted suicide is dead for now in the California legislature.

LIFE DIGEST: House to challenge Bush this week with embryonic stem cell research bill - 6/4/2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--The House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday or Thursday to provide federal funds for stem cell research that destroys embryos.

LIFE DIGEST: Oklahoma bill barring state funds for abortions becomes law - 5/30/2007
Oklahoma pro-life advocates finally achieved enactment of an abortion-restricting measure, even though the governor refused to sign it into law.

LIFE DIGEST: Pro-choice politicians, Pope differ on excommunication over abortion - 5/21/2007

LIFE DIGEST: British children with 'squint' eyes now are targets of embryo testing - 5/14/2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--Even a child whose eyes don't look in precisely the same direction has a life not worth living in Great Britain.

LIFE DIGEST: New 6-week pregnancy test may mean more sex-selection abortions; ... - 5/7/2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--A new home test reportedly can determine an unborn child's sex only six weeks into pregnancy, and a bioethics specialist has warned its primary purpose would appear to be enabling women to receive early sex-selection abortions.

LIFE DIGEST: Okla. Senate falls short of override, but another vote set; … - 4/30/2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--The Oklahoma Senate's effort to override a veto of a ban on state-funded, elective abortions fell just short, but Southern Baptists and other pro-lifers in the state are not giving up.

LIFE DIGEST: One in 30 aborted babies is born alive, British study finds; ... - 4/23/2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--One in 30 babies aborted because of severe handicaps survives, according to a new study in Great Britain.       The aborted babies who were born alive died after an average of 80 minutes, but some lived for more than six hours, reported the Evening Standard, a British newspaper.

LIFE DIGEST: Judge blocks Texas hospital's termination of care for young boy; ... - 4/16/2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--A Texas probate judge stands between a critically ill 17-month-old boy and no medical care.