When does human life begin?
June 2011
John R Ling
When does human life begin? It is a fundamental and decisive question because your answer reveals your understanding of the nature and status of the human embryo. It also shapes your stance on the big bioethical issues of the day such as abortion, cloning and embryonic stem cell research. There are many voices sowing confusion, but the Bible is unmistakably clear that human life begins at conception. In this booklet, John Ling provides a wide-ranging explanation of biblical truth, the historical Christian perspective and evidence from modern science to support this position.
Response to BCAP consultation
The Christian Institute's response to the proposed Broadcasting Advertising Standards Code
June 2009
In this response The Christian Institute warns against proposals to allow television advertisements for:
- Abortion services
- Pornography products
- Condoms (before the 9pm watershed)
© 2009 The Christian Institute
Assisted suicide briefing
Coroners and Justice Bill
June 2009
Included in this briefing:
- About the Coroners and Justice Bill
- Weakening the law would pressurise the vulnerable
- The value of human life in our society
- Medics against assisted suicide
- Controversy surrounding the Dignitas facility
- Read about those who chose life over death
- Much more…
© 2009 The Christian Institute
Abortion briefing
May 2008
Included in this briefing:
- Parliament to consider reducing upper time limit on abortions
- Making a bad law worse
- Serious consequences for the mother
- Abortion statistics
- Much more…
© 2008 The Christian Institute
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill briefing
April 2008 (Commons stages)
Included in this updated briefing:
- Adult stem cells lead the way
- Bill opens door to reproductive cloning
- The ‘Hunt test’
- Relevant articles from previous briefing
- Much more…
© 2008 The Christian Institute
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill briefing
December 2007 (Lords stages)
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Included in this briefing:
- Top scientist leaves embryo research
- Bill legislates for designer babies
- The abortion debate
- Animal-human embryos for research
- No need for for fathers?
- Much more…
© 2007 The Christian Institute
The morning-after pill
Uncovering the truth
January 2007
John R Ling
The morning-after pill is now more widely available than ever before. It is marketed as the ideal early solution to unwanted pregnancies. It is given a key role in the drive to combat teenage pregnancies.
But serious ethical issues are at stake. Can the morning-after pill act to destroy a human embryo? Does the morning-after pill encourage sexual promiscuity?
In this comprehensive but plain-speaking book John Ling sets out how the morning-after pill works and its wider social effects. Taking in evidence from science to philosophy, and from God’s law to British law, he argues that the morning-after pill demands a powerful Christian response.
© 2007 The Christian Institute
Contraception: A pro-life guide
March 2005
Dr O E O HotonuM
MB ChB BSc (Hons) MRCOG MPhil
The aim of this book is to provide background knowledge on how contraceptives work. As a result we hope that Christian readers will be better equipped to make wellinformed ethical decisions. Above all else the book explains the difference between those contraceptives which can act to destroy a human embryo and those which, according to the best available medical evidence, do not.
© 2005 The Christian Institute
Advocate – Issue 4
January 2000
Euthanasia special -
In this issue:
- Ann Winterton’s anti-euthanasia bill
- Mental Incapacity proposals
- The dangers of Living Wills
- Drift from Christian healthcare values
- BMA and assisted suicide
- Much more…
Euthanasia
1997
Gordon, from James Dobson’s Focus on the Family tackles some common questions.
©1997 The Christian Institute
A Christian Perspective on Genetics
1994
By Rev. Andrew Rolinson
© 1994 The Christian Institute
