Pressure is building on MPs over whether or not to cut the legal time limit for abortion.
In the News
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April 23rd, 2008
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April 22nd, 2008
Comedians and church leaders have claimed a victory for free speech after Government plans to ban jokes about homosexuals were rejected in the House of Lords.
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April 21st, 2008
A scientific technique that could allow same-sex couples to create their own biological child in a laboratory should be allowed under law, a group of influential scientists said on Monday.
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April 20th, 2008
When the philanthropist Joseph Rowntree listed society's evils more than 100 years ago he was optimistic the "great scourges of humanity" would be overcome.
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April 18th, 2008
Pro-Life parliamentarians and the Christian Charity CARE have expressed great concern at the passing of a resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe which states that women have a right to access safe and legal abortion.
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April 18th, 2008
A former school nurse is to take legal action after she was sacked for smacking her 10-year-old son at home.
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April 18th, 2008
The number of yobs fined for being drunk and disorderly has risen by two thirds since 2004, yet the Government still refuses to reverse its decision to allow all-day drinking.
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April 17th, 2008
Family breakdown and a lack of father figures could be to blame for pupils joining gangs, a report by a teachers' union says today.
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April 17th, 2008
Cardinal O'Brien's intemperate broadside against embryology research buries an opportunity for discussion in invective
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April 16th, 2008
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has passed a resolution to declare unlimited legal abortion an unconditional right. The Assembly passed the resolution with 102 to 69 votes with 14 abstentions. Amendments seeking to make the resolution less extreme in its promotion of abortion were rejected.