The Obama administration has vacillated since early 2009 on whether it would overturn the conscience protections the Bush administration put in place to protect pro-life medical workers.
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February 14th, 2011
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February 13th, 2011
A LEADING Australian ethicist has advocated genetically screening embryos to create a smarter society of superior "designer babies" with higher IQs.
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February 13th, 2011
Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York and the second most powerful cleric in the Church of England, has warned against forcing vicars to conduct same-sex civil partnerships as the Coalition prepares to grant full marriage rights to homosexual couples.
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February 13th, 2011
Undercover footage shows pupils being taught religious apartheid
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February 13th, 2011
Kristine Casey acted as a surrogate for daughter Sara Connell after she was unable to have children of her own.
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February 12th, 2011
Ministers are proposing to change the law to allow homosexual couples to "marry" in traditional religious ceremonies – including in church.
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February 11th, 2011
They were protesting a church attack when the Tahrir Square demonstrations began. Political change likely won't undo deep tensions with Muslims.
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February 11th, 2011Julian Savulescu's article on state regulation of reproductive technologies is a potent example of individualistic consumerism. Oscar Wilde's cynic is not alone, it seems, in knowing "the price of everything and the value of nothing".
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February 11th, 2011OTTAWA — The fate of a bill that would extend certain human rights to transgendered and transsexual citizens now rests with the Senate, unless an election kills it first.
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February 11th, 2011
Representatives approved anti-abortion legislation today. The bill not only bans abortion, but goes a step further and would ban the destruction of human embryos that are created when a woman`s egg is fertilized outside her body, known as in vitro fertilization.