A longstanding ban that prevents homosexual and bisexual men from giving blood is being reviewed and could be overturned as early as next year, the Government has said.
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October 27th, 2009
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October 27th, 2009
A legal challenge to government guidelines on abortion in Northern Ireland has begun at the High Court.
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October 27th, 2009
Pro-life campaigners have begun a High Court action challenging government guidelines on abortion in Northern Ireland.
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October 27th, 2009
Had I followed the advice I was given at the hospital, I would now be the mother of a 25-year-old daughter with Down's syndrome. Back then, at four months pregnant, I was discouraged from having pre-natal screening for the condition.
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October 27th, 2009
Spain's Roman Catholic bishops have urged parents not to allow their children to dress up at Halloween labelling it an 'occult and anti-Christian' custom.
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October 27th, 2009
A top Jewish school has been taken to the Supreme Court accused of race discrimination for refusing entry to a boy because it did not recognise his mother's conversion to the faith.
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October 27th, 2009
T-shirts with slogans like "Everyone loves a slutty girl" sort of summarize what teens are up against. Marketers, liberals, and the mass media have reduced sexual activity to little more than an amusing hobby, and made the concept of sexual purity seem backwards and outdated.
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October 27th, 2009
The Obama administration is opposing efforts by Islamic nations to bar the defamation of religion, saying such measures would restrict free speech.
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October 27th, 2009
Group set up by Obama's safe schools chief recommends 'Gay Pioneers'.
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October 27th, 2009
Residents in a part of Berkshire have mounted street patrols in a bid to tackle the rise in prostitutes working near their homes.