Sixty thousand Scots pupils are to be given access to sexual health services in school, allowing children as young as 13 to receive condoms and pregnancy tests.
In the News
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September 7th, 2008
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September 6th, 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu called on British churches to do more to tackle global poverty, adding: 'I have a hotline to God.'
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September 5th, 2008
A government advisor blames a decline in Christian values for rising gang violence in Birmingham.
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September 5th, 2008
Scientists in London have traced the embryonic changes that occur in children with Down's syndrome.
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September 5th, 2008
The British Columbia Court of Appeal released its decision yesterday in the Spratt case, finding that freedom of expression can be suspended within the ?bubble zone? around abortion clinics without violating the Charter.
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September 5th, 2008
Lenin is said to have had a name for Western liberals who supported Russian Communism in its early days. He called them ?useful idiots?, because they were helpful to him, but harming themselves by, in effect, braiding the rope that would hang their capitalist system. The epithet came to mind when I was wondering what to make of the handful of religious figures who have joined the new anti-faith schools coalition, Accord, this week.
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September 4th, 2008
Childless couples will lose out as a result of new guidelines aimed at reducing twin pregnancies.
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September 4th, 2008
Harriet Harman will today step up her drive to make buying sex illegal when she releases new figures showing that more than half of men and women support the move if it will reduce people-trafficking for sexual exploitation.
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September 3rd, 2008
The Health Service is placing mothers-to-be and their children at risk of dangerous multiple births by funding too few cycles of IVF, experts have warned.
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September 3rd, 2008
Doctors at Liverpool Women's Hospital have helped develop a barcode system to prevent mix-ups in IVF treatment.