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Simon Harris is being urged to help women in crisis pregnancies by supporting greater regulation of counselling services.
Brendan Howlin, the Labour Party leader, will propose a bill next week which would add crisis pregnancy advisers to the list of professions regulated under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act. Under his reforms, such counsellors would be registered and subject to oversight.
When Javaria Saaed, a member of the counterterrorism division at Scotland Yard, reported extremist behavior and comments from fellow Muslim officers, she expected her concerns to be taken seriously. Several Muslims in the London police force were expressing views consistent with extremist interpretations of Islam, something she assumed would interest her superiors. But she was wrong. She hadn’t counted on the double standard applied to Muslims in the West, or government officials’ intense fear of being labeled Islamaphobic.
MPs have been warned not to try and change the UK law on euthanasia after figures from Belgium showed a startling rise in doctor-assisted suicides, particularly among those who did not have a terminal disease.
In the 10 years since Belgium legalised assisted-suicide, the number of people using it to end their lives shot up eight fold. The biggest increases were among people older than 80 who did not have cancer and were not expected to die in the near future.
One of the biggest setbacks for same-sex marriage in Australia has been the uproar around curriculum materials produced by the national Safe Schools Coalition (SSCA) for children in years 7 and 8.
These are supposed to stop bullying of homosexual and transgender students, but they also involve educating all students about sensitive topics, including sexual morality. Hundreds of schools, mostly government-run, have signed up. After noisy protests from parents, religious groups and politicians, the Federal Government stepped in and forced the SSCA to make significant changes.
Along with laser hair removal and Botox, a Polish clinic in London provides abortion. And it is not shy about what it does, listing abortion and its price on the facility’s website.
Tooting Medical Centre (TMC) offers medical and dental services to a mostly Polish clientele. Among its services are early medical abortion, sexually transmitted infection testing, and contraception supply, including intrauterine devices, or IUDs, which can act as abortifacients.
Thousands of human rights activists and women’s rights campaigners in Poland gathered outside the country’s parliament in Warsaw on September 18, to protest against new draft legislation aimed to criminalise nearly all abortions. Demonstrations were also held in several other Polish cities, including one outside the Polish embassy in London.
As reported The Guardian, the new measure was drawn up with the backing of the Catholic Church. If passed, abortions would be outlawed except where necessary to save a women’s life. Also women seeking abortions and doctors carrying them out would be subject to jail sentences of up to five years for causing “the death of a conceived child”.
August 1. Nearly 900 Syrians in Britain were arrested in 2015 for crimes including rape and child abuse, police statistics revealed. The British government has pledged to resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refugees in the UK by the end of 2020. "The government seems not to have vetted those it has invited into the country," said MEP Ray Finch. The disclosure came after Northumbria Police and the BBC were accused of covering up allegations that a gang of Syrians sexually assaulted two teenage girls in a park in Newcastle.
Three cancer patients claim they are being refused life-saving treatment because the NHS is saving up to pay for a controversial HIV drug.
All suffer from the rare blood cancer Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia, which affects 4,000 Britons and can only be cured by stem cell transplants.
They have each been told by doctors that the treatment has been suspended to ensure there is sufficient funding for the HIV drug.
Up until now, I’ve used only secular arguments involving logic, reason, and experience to address the issue of same-sex marriage. That’s how I first came to think about the issue. But as I explained at Public Discourse last year, once I began thinking, reasoning, and examining my life, an extraordinary thing happened: I couldn’t stop. Reason led me to acknowledge natural law, which led me to begin rejecting some of my former ways of thinking and acting. Reason then led me to recognize God.
I am now a Christian, and even though I am same-sex attracted—or, more likely, because I am same-sex attracted—I marvel at the extraordinary significance of marriage in God’s eternal plan. Marriage is under siege because it stands at the heart of the Good News of the Gospel.
An NHS watchdog has issued advice about sexting to help professionals spot the difference between "normal" sexual experimentation and harmful sexual behaviour among children and teens.
Sexting (sending explicit messages or images via text) is a worry and must be monitored, says the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
It says not enough is known about the impact on young minds.