A doctor who waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves, is preparing to leave prison next week.

THE editor of a US medical journal who published an article saying foetuses probably do not feel pain until late pregnancy has been swamped by “horrible, vindictive” emails.

A review of medical evidence has found that foetuses do not feel pain until the final months of pregnancy – a powerful challenge to abortion opponents who hope that discussions about foetal pain will make women think twice.