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  • Life: Illegal abortion clinics flushed babies down toilet, tossed them in sewers: whistleblower comes forward
    January 16th, 2017

    Worldwide abortion provider Marie Stopes International has been performing illegal abortions in Uganda, dumping the bodies of aborted babies in open sewers, and routinely concealing this practice from the U.S. foreign aid Agency USAID, according to a video released this week.

    The charges came to light in a chilling video, Killing Africa, from the London, England-based Culture of Life Africa organization.

    Desire Kirabo, a former MSI clinic staffer in Uganda, said in an interview by Culture of Life Africa founder and president Obianuju Ekeocha that "It was all about abortion," contrary to what she was told when hired in 2011 that the clinic provided "family planning."

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  • Life: Illegal abortion clinics flushed babies down toilet, tossed them in sewers: whistleblower comes forward
    January 16th, 2017

    Worldwide abortion provider Marie Stopes International has been performing illegal abortions in Uganda, dumping the bodies of aborted babies in open sewers, and routinely concealing this practice from the U.S. foreign aid Agency USAID, according to a video released this week.

    The charges came to light in a chilling video, Killing Africa, from the London, England-based Culture of Life Africa organization.

    Desire Kirabo, a former MSI clinic staffer in Uganda, said in an interview by Culture of Life Africa founder and president Obianuju Ekeocha that "It was all about abortion," contrary to what she was told when hired in 2011 that the clinic provided "family planning."

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  • Shropshire Star: Assisted suicide: Shropshire disability campaigners launch move to change the law
    January 16th, 2017

    Merv and Nikki Kenward will travel to London in a bid to gain permission to overturn a High Court ruling regarding assisted suicide.

    In October 2014 Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders decided she would allow an amendment the 1961 Suicide Act.

    It clarified that prosecution should not to extend to outside professionals brought in to assist suicide after the victim has reached a settled decision to end his or her life.

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  • Irish Examiner: Richard Bruton to tackle 'baptism barrier' in schools
    January 16th, 2017

    He faced criticism last year when his bill on school admissions did not deal with the ‘baptism barrier’ under which parents in some communities can not enrol their children in local primary schools unless they have been baptised in the Catholic church.

    Ahead of announcing a consultation on how to deal with the problem, he said this pressure to baptise their children is unfair. He wants members of the public and groups which might be affected to submit their views on a number of options before deciding how to proceed.

    While the desire of religious parents to educate their children in their faith should be respected, he said, non-religious parents or those of minority religions should not be unfairly disadvantaged when trying to get their children into local schools. 

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  • BBC: Church 'deeply distressed' by Koran offence, says primus
    January 15th, 2017

    The head of the Scottish Episcopal Church says the Church is "deeply distressed" at the offence caused by the reading of a passage from the Koran in a Glasgow cathedral.

    The comments of the Church Primus, the Most Rev David Chillingworth, follow criticism that Islamic verses were read during an Epiphany service.

    In his blog, he also condemned the abuse received by St Mary's Cathedral.

    Police are investigating offensive online messages aimed at the church. 

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  • Premier: Australian Christian Lobby: same-sex marriage will cause gender confusion
    January 15th, 2017

    The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has claimed gender confusion will increase in the country if same-sex marriage is brought in.

    It's speaking as the Australian government's been urging people to provide them with their opinions on the introduction of same-sex marriage as part of their consultation. It was receiving responses up until Friday.

    The Australian coalition government wanted to hold a referendum where the people could decide whether same-sex marriage should be brought in, however this proposal was blocked by the Australian Senate.

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  • Mail: Are martyrs of 500 years ago really a burning issue for Welby?
    January 15th, 2017

    It was one of the bloodiest periods in English history, with thousands brutally put to death, often burned at the stake for their religious beliefs in the Reformation.

    But even though Henry VIII’s war with the Pope began 500 years ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is expected to express his remorse this week.

    The move was ridiculed by former Conservative Minister Ann Widdecombe, an Anglican who converted to Catholicism.

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  • Times (£): MP fails in bid to extend civil partnerships
    January 15th, 2017

    Proposals to close an "unfair and illogical" loophole and extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples have been blocked by the government.

    Tim Loughton, Conservative MP for East Worthing & Shoreham, said the change would allow couples who did not agree with the institution of marriage to enshrine their commitment to each other in the eyes of the law.

    He said it would promote family stability and give couples legal protection on pensions, inheritance and providing for children in the event of separation. 

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  • Times (£): Abortion rights on hold in Stormont turmoil
    January 15th, 2017

    A move to legalise access to abortion for women who experience fatal foetal abnormalities in Northern Ireland will not be considered because of the collapse of the assembly, the Stormont health minister has said.

    Sinn Fein has said it will prioritise increasing abortion access and other equality issues if it is in talks with the DUP after a likely election this year.

    Abortion is banned in Northern Ireland in all but a small number of circumstances. In December 2015, the Belfast high court ruled that denying access to the procedure in cases of rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormalities was a breach of human rights.

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  • Times (£): Isolation cells for 12 jihadists cost £1m a year
    January 15th, 2017

    Twelve of Britain’s most dangerous Islamist terrorists will be placed in containment units in three prisons at a cost of about £1m a year.

    Anjem Choudary — the country’s most notorious hate preacher, who was convicted last year of supporting Isis — is expected to be among the prisoners placed in the specialist units to prevent them from radicalising other inmates.

    Another high-profile ex­tremist to be separated from the general prison population is understood to be Michael Adebolajo, one of the two killers of the British soldier Lee Rigby in 2013. According to intelligence reports, Adebolajo has tried to exploit his notoriety in prison to recruit other Muslim convicts to the jihadist cause. 

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