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August 27th, 2009
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August 27th, 2009
A UN human rights committee recently told UN member states they must grant broad new human rights on the basis of ?sexual orientation and gender identity.? By making sweeping changes to their national laws, policies and changing practices and attitudes within families and cultural institutions, or else they will be in ?violation? of their obligations under international law.
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August 27th, 2009
White House health-care adviser Ezekiel Emanuel blames the Hippocratic Oath for the 'overuse' of medical care.
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August 27th, 2009
More information is coming to light about why the Food and Drug Administration has made the decision to stop human trials involving embryonic stem cells. The reasons mirror the concerns pro-life advocates have had for years with the research, which has yet to help any patients.
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August 27th, 2009
Mobs have been lynching and murdering innocent people and looting and burning homes and businesses because of false claims of blasphemy, and it needs to stop, a new petition is demanding of the United Nations.
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August 27th, 2009
Kids as young as 10 in London are to get sex counselling and education by text messaging, online and face-to-face.
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August 26th, 2009
The US work, featured in the journal Nature, raises hopes of a treatment enabling women with defective eggs to have a child without using donor eggs.
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August 26th, 2009
Tipping the scales at over 19 stone, Rachel Denton was told by doctors she'd need IVF treatment if she wanted another baby. But now the 35-year-old is celebrating after losing eight and a half stone and conceiving a much longed for baby naturally.
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August 26th, 2009
The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) has filed a petition with the United Nations asking the UN to urge Pakistan to prosecute acts of violence against Pakistani Christians after a series of attacks have claimed the lives of scores of Christians ? including the most recent attack this month in Gojra where at least seven Christians were burned to death.
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August 26th, 2009
Family breakdown and the devaluation of marriage has led to a generation of children with no concept of right and wrong, the Tories have warned.