Press Releases
Producing press releases on topical issues is one way in which CMF aims to promote Christian values, especially in bioethics and healthcare, within society. Through these pages you can access all of our press releases.
For media enquiries please call Alistair Thompson on 020 3008 8145 or 07970 162 225
Showing 131 - 138 of 138 Press Releases
Diane Pretty - statement from CMF on the European Court decision (03/05/2002)
CMF has welcomed the European Court decision in the Diane Pretty case, which is to uphold the present law prohibiting assisted suicide and euthanasia. CMF General Secretary Peter Saunders...
Miss B - 'Aspects of the Court's judgement are worrying, but it does not change the rule of law,' says CMF (22/03/2002)
The UK's largest organisation of Christian doctors says that aspects of today's court ruling are worrying, but that euthanasia and assisted suicide remain illegal. CMF General Secretary Peter Saunders said,...
Assisted suicide survey results irrelevant to current debate (05/02/2002)
CMF has responded to a survey showing that 80% of people support physician-assisted suicide (PAS) by saying that the results are irrelevant to the current debate. The study results,...
'Government must act to ban all human cloning despite court decision,' says CMF (21/01/2002)
Peter Saunders, General Secretary of CMF (the UK's largest organisation of Christian doctors), commented on today's Court of Appeal ruling that embryo cloning is now permitted under the 1990 Human...
HFEA's designer baby precedent unethical and dangerous (13/12/2001)
CMF has responded to the HFEA's decision to allow IVF technology to produce tissue matched donors for the treatment of children with severe inherited disorders by saying the precedent is...
Diane Pretty - statement on the House of Lords' decision (29/11/2001)
CMF has welcomed the House of Lords’ decision in the Diane Pretty case, which is to uphold the present law prohibiting assisted suicide and euthanasia. CMF General Secretary Peter Saunders...
New bill 'full of loopholes which may be exploited,' says CMF (26/11/2001)
Peter Saunders, General Secretary of CMF (Britain’s largest organisation of Christian doctors), comments today: 'This panic legislation is full of loopholes which unscrupulous lawyers and scientists could exploit. It is...
'Government must act now to ban all human cloning,' says CMF (15/11/2001)
CMF ‘urges government to think again’ in light of keynote legal decision. CMF has responded to today’s court decision on human cloning by calling on the government to ban all human...
