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  • Mail: 'Silver divorces' sparking wave of family disputes over parents' wills
    June 22nd, 2016

    The explosion in ‘silver divorces’ has led to a wave of family disputes over who inherits parents’ homes, money and valuables, lawyers have warned.

    Family rows often follow a divorce of a middle-aged couple who have assumed for years that they will leave everything they have to their children, they said.

    But frequently an older divorcee goes on to remarry, and fails to change their will, which then becomes out of date – leading to disputes between their new family and the children from their previous marriage.

    The increase in divorce among older couples, which means nearly one in ten people over 65 is now a divorcee, has led to a series of reports from law firms that numbers of disputes over inheritance are rising fast.

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  • NBC: Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis, Who Refused to Issue Marriage Licenses to Gays, Seeks to End Case
    June 21st, 2016

    The Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples is seeking to close the book on a contentious case that made her a pariah to progressives and a hero to some religious conservatives.

    Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has asked the 6th U.S. Circuit Court to dismiss her appeal because her state's new law, which removes clerks' names from marriage licenses, makes the issue "moot," according to court papers.

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  • Life Site: Lesbian 'gender non-conforming' couple tries to force son to have 'queer' gender relationship
    June 21st, 2016

    A lesbian couple featured in a BuzzFeed video on "gender non-conforming" parenting is trying to force their son to have a "queer" relationship with his gender despite his protests.

    In Buzzfeed's "I Am A Gender Non-Conforming Parent" video, Dashiell and Michelle explain how they raise their son, Atticus, as a lesbian couple with a "gender non-conforming" parent.

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  • CNN: Escaped ISIS sex slave tells Congress of horrors
    June 21st, 2016

    A former ISIS sex slave urged Congress Tuesday to more aggressively fight the terror group and offered her condolences for the massacre in Orlando, saying she's not surprised by it.

    Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who escaped captivity in 2014, told the Senate Homeland Security committee that "the USA must act. We must terminate Daesh (ISIS) and all such terror."

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  • Guardian: Widow to take fight to save frozen embryos to court
    June 21st, 2016

    The widow of a Falklands war combat medic will go to the high court on Wednesday in an effort to prevent the couple’s frozen embryos from being destroyed.

    Samantha Jefferies, 42, and her husband Clive were about to start fertility treatment with embryos they had created when he died suddenly in 2014 from a brain haemorrhage. He was 51 years old.

    The couple had given written consent for the embryos to be stored for 10 years. But because they only had NHS funding for two years, the Sussex Downs Fertility Centre asked them to amend the consent to two years, which has now run out.

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  • Pew Research: Where major religious groups stand on abortion
    June 21st, 2016

    Abortion is still a difficult, contentious and even unresolved issue for some religious groups.

    The United Methodist Church provides one example of a religious group whose stand on abortion is not entirely clear. At its quadrennial convention, held in May, church delegates voted to repeal a 40-year-old resolution supporting the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and approved another resolution ending the church’s membership in a pro-abortion rights advocacy group. However, the church’s Book of Discipline (which lays out the denomination’s law and doctrine) stresses that abortion should be, in some cases, legally available.

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  • Christian Today: Trainee vicar with cancer to appear on BBC programme - 'God is always faithful'
    June 21st, 2016

    Katy Garner thought she had received a death sentence when she found a lump near her groin seven years ago.

    When tests confirmed she had secondary melonoma cancer the trainee vicar from Portsmouth said she "sank into a bit of a hole". In an interview with Christian Today, Garner, who will be ordained on July 2, praised God's faithfulness throughout her journey.

    "God walks with me. God is someone you can talk to and scream at. He is always the same. He is always faithful.

    "There have been times when I have wondered where he is because he has not felt present. But I know it's not him but me who has not let him be present," she told Christian Today.

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  • Care Not Kiling: BMA members reject assisted suicide neutrality
    June 21st, 2016

    BMA members attending the influential policy-making gathering were asked, in the course of the Medical Ethics debate today (21 June) to consider two motions related to assisted suicide:

    Motion 79 (EAST MIDLANDS REGIONAL COUNCIL) That this meeting, with respect to Physician Assisted Dying, notes the recent rejection by Parliaments of efforts to overturn the law on Physician-Assisted Dying and therefore feels that it is not appropriate at this time to debate whether or not to change existing BMA policy.

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  • Independent: Abortion pills flown into Northern Ireland by drone in abortion ban protest
    June 21st, 2016

    Activists have flown abortion pills into Northern Ireland using a drone to protest against the region’s ban on abortions. Pills were also despatched there by speedboat by Women on Waves, a group that delivers abortion pills to countries where they are illegal. Two women then swallowed the pills in front of a crowd. Activist Courtney Robinson, who took one of the pills, posted pictures to social media of the event.

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  • Pink News: Church of England Synod member says schools should ‘promote’ heterosexual lifestyle to kids
    June 21st, 2016

    Just a week on from the deadliest homophobic hate crime in recent history, Channel 5 News featured an anti-LGBT campaigner – who claims schools should "promote" straight marriage to kids.

    Andrea Williams of anti-LGBT group Christian Concern was invited on Channel 5 News last night to discuss School Diversity Week – an anti-bullying initiative promoted by LGBT education charity Just Like Us.

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