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  • Conservative Woman: Time to issue a health warning on three-parent embryos by Philippa Taylor
    June 9th, 2016

    Good news! It is now safe to produce three-parent embryos! We are well on the way to providing new treatments for women who have inheritable mitochondrial disorders! We just need the HFEA to issue the first licence to a clinic and soon healthy children will be born, free of disease!

    Ok, perhaps that last sentence was slightly over-hyped, but only by the word ‘soon’, and no more so than the news has been hyped by the scientists and media.

    New research from Newcastle University published in the journal Nature yesterday evening has generated headlines that the creation of three-parent embryos is now both safe and effective. The researchers are full of optimism that they have overcome 'significant technical and biological challenges' and it will lead to a 'normal pregnancy'.

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  • Anglican Communion News Service: Scottish Episcopal Church to vote on same sex marriage
    June 9th, 2016

    Representatives from dioceses across Scotland will vote on a proposal to change the Scottish Episcopal Church’s Canon on Marriage at the annual meeting of the General Synod tomorrow (10 June).

    The proposal would remove the doctrinal clause which states that marriage is between a man and a woman and add a conscience clause for those who would not want to conduct a same-sex marriage. This is the first reading of the proposal. If it is approved, there will be a further debate in 2017 when a two-thirds majority in each house of Bishops, Clergy and Laity would be required.

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  • Mail: Sir Patrick Stewart urges Britain to make assisted dying legal
    June 9th, 2016

    Sir Patrick Stewart is urging Britain to 'boldly go' and make assisted dying for the terminally ill legal as California grants a die-with-dignity law.

    The Star Trek: Next Generation actor, who is patron of Dignity in Dying, said it is an 'absolute disgrace' that he is denied the right to die legally at home in the UK.

    The 76-year-old, who grew up in Yorkshire but has since moved to California, US, said it was unacceptable that terminally ill patients can now die with dignity in one country but not another.

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  • Guardian: Anti-abortion activists plan online push in Britain
    June 9th, 2016

    Anti-abortion activists are preparing to launch a major campaign in Britain, using an increased online presence to compete with established service providers such as Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS).

    The UK-based charity Life, which campaigns against abortion and has been at the centre of controversy over the information provided by its unregulated pregnancy counselling centres, will later this month embark on a significant shift in its online approach.

    "Our new strategy will meet these women where they’re at – making contact with the girl who’s about to book an abortion with one click on her smartphone or the woman on her way to the clinic," according to the organisation.

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  • Spectator: Martin Luther - one man who changed the world
    June 9th, 2016

    On 31 October 1517, as every child once knew, an obscure German monk nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg’s castle church and so began the Reformation. It would seem that there is no firm evidence that this ever actually happened as myth would have it, but whether Martin Luther nailed his theses to the door or glued them or merely posted them to Germany’s leading churchmen, the Christian world would never be the same again.

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  • MercatorNet: The origins of Jihadism in Europe
    June 9th, 2016

    Since Europe has arrived within the Islamic State’s sights, politicians and security experts are questioning the manner in which terrorism should be countered.

    Another very lively debate has erupted among predominantly French scholars of Islam, divided on the origin and nature of jihadist militancy. Triggering the debate was an article by Olivier Roy published on Le Monde on November 24, 2015 in which the French political scientist recalls and enriches some theories elaborated since the publication of his L’échec de l’Islam politique (The Failure of Political Islam) in 1992.

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  • IB Times: Singapore tells foreign companies not to sponsor events that support LGBT
    June 9th, 2016

    In a strongly worded statement, Singapore has warned foreign companies not to "fund, support or influence" events that advocate the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) cause, including any events whose purpose is to oppose the LGBT cause.

    The Ministry of Home Affairs reminded foreign entities that they should "not interfere in our domestic issues, especially political issues or controversial social issues with political overtones. These are political, social or moral choices for Singaporeans to decide for ourselves. LGBT issues are one such example."

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  • Telegraph: Church of England vicar says Brexit vote is not just a cry of 'incoherent rage'
    June 9th, 2016

    A vicar has publicly challenged the Church of England hierarchy over the EU referendum by warning against dismissing the vote to leave as just a cry of "incoherent rage" by disadvantaged communities.

    The Rev Graeme Buttery, of St Oswald's Church, Hartlepool, said people in the town, who voted heavily to leave, felt they were being listened to for the first time in more than 40 years in the vote last month.

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  • Daily Caller: California’s Assisted Suicide Law Goes Into Effect Thursday
    June 8th, 2016

    California’s End of Life Option Act goes into effect Thursday, making it the fifth state to have an assisted suicide law.

    The law allows terminally ill patients to end their own lives using drugs prescribed by doctors.

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  • Courier: Labour MSP defies party line to vote with Tories against Named Person policy
    June 8th, 2016

    Jenny Marra and the Scottish Conservatives voted against the SNP’s Named Person policy, which assigns a health worker or teacher to every child in Scotland, following a Holyrood debate yesterday.

    She was the only MSP not on the Tory benches who opposed the SNP’s winning amendment to the Conservative motion.

    Ms Marra said it was not a decision she took lightly, but piling more pressure on senior teachers when Dundee heads are already taking classes because of staff shortages was the wrong way to go.

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