According to an Adoption UK survey of 3,500 families asking about their motivations for adopting, only 58 per cent said they did so because they were unable to have biological children; which is to say that a surprising number appear to be opting for adoption ahead of, or instead of, having a birth child. The […]
The Independent Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience in China has accused the British Government of ignoring the horrific practice of organ harvesting in China, in which “enemies of the state” have “their bodies cut open – some while still alive – for their kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs, cornea and skin to […]
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick notes that doctors are seeing “an alarming number of teenagers who are fluent in the language of therapy”, who arrive complaining of “low self-esteem” and problems of “body image”; they “wonder whether panic attacks typical of post-traumatic stress disorder were “triggered” by apparently trivial incidents at school”. One teenage girl was brought […]