Articles
I have been writing
articles on bioethical issues (and a few other topics) for about
the last 30 years. Below is a selection of some of my more
recent pieces.
Update on Life
Issues - posted, February 2017.
A Letter
to The Times - posted, December 2016.
You Say You
Want A Revolution? -
posted, December 2016.
Update on
Life Issues - posted, October 2016.
The Ordination and
Induction of Rhodri Brady - posted 3 September
2016.
Parliamentary
Inquiry into Freedom of Conscience in Abortion Provision
- a submission made on behalf of Affinity, posted, July
2016.
Update on Life
Issues - posted, June 2016.
Letters to The
Times, barefoot running - posted, June 2016.
My Wolf Run Story - posted, June 2016.
My
Golden Anniversary -
posted, May 2016.
Candle in the
Wind by Gary Brady - a
review, posted, May 2016.
Finishing Our
Course with Joy by J I Packer - a review,
posted, March 2016.
How to Die: Simon's Choice - review of the BBC2 documentary, posted, February 2016.
Update
on Life Issues - posted,
February 2016.
Being
Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande - a review,
posted, January 2016.
Right to
Die? Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and
End-of-Life Care by John Wyatt - a review, posted,
January 2016.
Update on Life Issues
- posted, October 2015.
Update on Life Issues - posted, July 2015.
Update on Life Issues - posted, February 2015.
A Letter to Simon Thomas AM - assisted suicide debate, posted, December 2014.
What is Trending in Abortion? - blog on LIFE website, posted, December 2014.
A Letter to Members of the Welsh Assembly - assisted suicide debate, posted, December 2014.
Notes for the Meeting with Mark Williams MP - posted, November 2014.
Update on Life Issues - posted, October 2014.
Letter to The Times, 14 July 2014 - posted, July 2014.
Two Letters Concerning Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill - posted, July 2014.
Update on Life Issues - posted, July 2014.
Mitochondrial Donation - submission to the Department of Health on behalf of Affinity - posted, May 2014.
Attitudes to Ageing and Dying by David Powell - a review, posted, February 2014.
Update on Life Issues - posted, February 2014.
A Letter to The Times - posted, January 2014.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - a review, posted, January 2014.
In the Midst of Life by Jennifer Worth - a review, posted, November 2013.
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire - a review, posted, October 2013.
Update on Life Issues - posted, October 2013.
End-of-Life Issues - A Handout for Pilgrims' Friend Society Conferences - posted, September 2013.
Student Freshers' Welcome - a short address - posted, September 2013.
Capital by John Lanchester - a review, posted, September 2013.
Long-term Illness, Euthanasia and Palliative Care - posted, July 2012.
Update on Life Issues - posted, June 2013.
Eleven Days in Poland - posted, June 2013.
Update on Life Issues - posted, February 2013.
Medical Frontiers: Debating Mitochondria Replacement - HFEA submission on behalf of Affinity - posted, December 2012.
A Tale of Two Viruses - posted, November 2012.
The Liverpool Care Pathway - posted, November 2012.
Update on Life Issues - posted, October 2012.
Probleme de Bioethică - Īnţelegerea Culturii Morţii şi Răspunsul Creştin - posted, October 2012.
A Letter to Nature - posted, June 2012.
Update on Life Issues - posted, June 2012.
Wednesday 25 April 2012 - A Mixed Day - posted, April 2012.
Update on Life Issues - posted, February 2012.
Response to the Consultation on Proposals for Legislation on Organ and Tissue Donation - posted, January 2012.
The Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens - a review, posted, January 2012.
Update on Life Issues - posted, October 2011.
A Little Speech at My Mother's 90th Birthday Lunch - posted, October 2011.
Rev. Dr John Stott - Patron of LIFE - posted, July 2011.
Update on Life Issues - posted, June 2011.
Choosing to Die - A Complaint to the BBC - posted, 14 June 2001.
Submission to the Commission on Assisted Dying - posted, April 2011.
Campaigning Against Euthanasia on the Isle of Man - posted, April 2011.
Update on Life Issues - posted, February 2011.
A Time to Live - The Case Against Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide by George Pitcher - a review, posted, December 2010.
Update on Life Issues - posted, November 2010.
The Truth About Stem Cell Technology - the text of a talk given at the LIFE National Conference - posted, October 2010.
A Comment to Nature 467: 761 (13 October 2010) - posted, October 2010.
Update on Life Issues - posted, June 2010.
The Soul of the Embryo by David Albert Jones - a review, posted, April 2010.
Update on Life Issues - posted, February 2010.
Correspondence with Mrs Gill Frances, chairwoman of the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group - posted, December 2009 and January 2010.
Response to the DPP's Public Consultation on Assisted Suicide - on behalf of Affinity, posted, December 2009.
Update on Life Issues - posted, October 2009.
Francis Schaeffer - An Authentic Life by Colin Duriez - a review, posted, August 2009.
Just Sex - Is It Ever Just Sex? by Guy Brandon - a review for Evangelical Times, posted, July 2009.
Update on Life Issues - posted, June 2009.
Update on Life Issues - posted, February 2009.
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (2008) - Resources - posted, December 2008.
Update on Life Issues - posted, October 2008.
God's Own Country - Religion and Politics in the USA by Stephen Bates - a review, posted, August 2008.
Thirty Years of IVF - posted, July 2008.
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - The Aftermath - posted, June 2008.
YOU and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (2008) - posted, May 2008.
Visiting Joy Negus - A True Christian Friend - posted, April 2008.
A Letter To The Prime Minister - And His Reply - posted, February 2008.
IVF and the Fate of Human Embryos - posted, February 2008.
Update on Life Issues - posted, February 2008.
Update on Life Issues - posted, October 2007.
40 Years of Abortion - 'A Time to Kill and a Time to Heal' - posted, August 2007.
Update on Life Issues - posted, June 2007.
An E-Mail to Liza Munday - posted, June 2007.
Update on Life Issues - posted, February 2007.
Affinity Statements on Abortion, Euthanasia and Assisted Reproductive Technologies - posted, February 2007.
Donating Eggs for Research: Safeguarding Donors - submission to the HFEA on behalf of Affinity, December 2006.
How
To Be A Christian In A Brave New World
by Joni Eareckson Tada and Nigel M. de S. Cameron -
a review in Evangelical Times, posted, December 2006.
Trends in Abortion
Statistics, 1968 - 2005 -
posted, November 2006.
Update on Life Issues - posted, October 2006.
A Day In The House Of Lords - Assisted Dying For the Terminally Ill Bill Debate - coming soon (er, or later)!
Update on Life Issues - posted, June 2006.
Public Engagement - Affinity Magazine, posted, May 2006
The Sanctity of Human Life and its Downgrade - Affinity Social Issues Bulletin, March 2006.
Update on Life Issues - posted, February 2006.
The Submission by Affinity to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's Choices & Boundaries Consultation - submission on behalf of Affinity, January 2006.
What is Going on in Christian Crisis Pregnancy Counselling? by E. S. Williams - a review, posted, December 2005.
Review of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act - submission on behalf of Affinity, November 2005.
Father-of-the-Bride's speech - 15 October 2005.
Update on Life Issues - Affinity website, October 2005.
Letter to The Times on euthanasia and palliative care - sent, 29 September 2005.
Update on Life Issues - Affinity website, July 2005.
Teenage Pregnancy - More Evidence of a Failing Policy - posted, May 2005.
The Report of the House of Lords' Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill - posted, April 2005.
Update on Life Issues - Affinity website, February 2005.
On the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz - The Nazi Holocaust - posted, 27 January 2005.
The Ethics of Legalising Assisted Dying - My Reply to The Times - posted, January 2005.
Bioethics - the Current Challenge - Affinity Magazine, November 2004.
Update on Life Issues - Affinity website, October 2004.
Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill - submission on behalf of Affinity, to the House of Lords' Select Committee, August 2004.
Magistrates in History and in Historic Confessions of Faith - posted, July 2004.
Beware! It's the Attack of the Medieval Bigots - My Reply to The Times - published, June 2004.
My Foetus - A Critique of Channel 4's Documentary - posted, May 2004.
Whatever Happened To The Human Race? - Revisited - posted, March 2004.
Consultation on Confronting the Crisis - The Culture of Death - House of Lords, February 2004.
On The Death Of A Stepfather - An Appreciation - posted, January 2004.
Stop Cloning Around Part 2 - Lawyers' Christian Fellowship Magazine, Spring 2004.
Why I Did Not Send A NICE Reply - posted, October 2003.
On Abortion, Civil Disobedience, the Execution of Paul Hill and the Downfall of Randall Terry - posted, September 2003.
Abortion - The View From The USA - FIEC website, September 2003.
Stop Cloning Around Part 1 - Lawyers' Christian Fellowship Magazine, Autumn 2003.
The Essence of Feminism by Kirsten Burkett - a review in Evangelical Times, August 2003.
For What It Is Worth - The Status Of The Human Embryo by Philippa Taylor - a review in the FIEC's Christian Citizenship Bulletin No. 53, March 2003.
Update on Life Issues
- FIEC's Christian Citizenship Bulletin No. 53, March 2003.
Lyndon
Bowring Meets the FIEC's Christian Citizenship Committee
- posted, November 2002
Sex Selection: Choice
and Responsibility in Human Reproduction -
FIEC's Christian Citizenship
Committee Bulletin No. 52, November 2002.
The Christian and Books - FIEC's Christian Citizenship
Committee Bulletin No. 51, July 2002.
Euthanasia and the Significance of Mrs
Pretty and Miss B - Evangelical
Times, June 2002.
Loss
and Bereavement - FIEC's Christian
Citizenship Committee Bulletin No. 50, March 2002.
Infanticide - A Sinister Practice
- FIEC's
Christian Citizenship Committee Bulletin No. 49, November
2001.
Update
on Life Issues - FIEC's Christian
Citizenship Committee Bulletin No. 48, July 2001.
The Morning-After
Pill - Evangelical Times, March
2001.
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) - Submission to the HFEA/ACGT on behalf of the FIEC, March 2000.
A to Z of Bioethical
Issues - FIEC's Christian Citizenship
Bulletins, 41, 43, 45 and 46, March 1998 - November 2000.
Pure Sex
by Tony Payne and Philip Jensen - a review in Evangelical
Times, XXX, 1999.
Update on Life Issues - FIEC's Christian Citizenship Bulletin No. 39, March 1997.
Update on Life Issues - FIEC's Christian Citizenship Bulletin No. 38, November 1996.
Update
on Life Issues - FIEC's Christian
Citizenship Bulletin No. 37, March
1996.
Update on Life Issues - FIEC's Christian Citizenship Bulletin No. 35, Spring 1995.
Update on Life Issues - FIEC's Christian Citizenship Bulletin No. 31, Summer 1993.
An Update on Human Gene Therapy - FIEC's Christian Citizenship Bulletin No. 29, Autumn 1992.
Update
on Life Issues - FIEC's Christian
Citizenship Bulletin No. 28, Autumn
1991.
How Should We Then Live? - A
Reaction to the Schaeffer Films -
Evangelical Times, July 1979.