MPs have voted in favour of legalising abortion in Northern Ireland after a number of Tory ministers broke ranks to back demands for change, creating a potential headache for Theresa May.
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October 23rd, 2018
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October 17th, 2018
Nineteenth-century laws making abortion illegal in Queensland have been scrapped, in one of the state's biggest legislative reforms.
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October 17th, 2018
Abortion will become legal in Queensland, after the state’s parliament voted to support new legislation and erase a 119-year-old “morality” section of the state’s criminal code.
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October 16th, 2018
Crimes motivated by misogyny, a loathing for men, ageism and a loathing of goths could all be classed as hate crimes.
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October 12th, 2018
A church minister has reported the Scottish Government's hate crime posters to the campaign's own website over concerns that they are doing more to encourage hate than prevent it.
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October 12th, 2018
The public body which backed a lengthy legal battle against a Christian-owned bakery in Northern Ireland has been accused by one MP of wasting £250,000 of taxpayer money.
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October 11th, 2018
A Christian couple who refused to bake a cake saying 'Support Gay Marriage' have won their appeal and thanked God publicly as they left the Supreme Court.
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October 10th, 2018
The owners of a bakery did not discriminate against a customer by refusing to make a cake supporting gay marriage, the Supreme Court has ruled.
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October 10th, 2018
The Christian owners of a Northern Ireland bakery have won their appeal in the so-called "gay cake" discrimination case.
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October 9th, 2018
Doctors are helping patients to choose the sex of their baby by sending them abroad for a procedure outlawed in the UK, an investigation found.