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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today…to go deeply into debt.
The wedding season is officially upon us and the average couple will spend £30,111 getting hitched, according to Brides magazine. The same magazine put the typical cost at £24,000 last year, meaning people are apparently splashing out 25 per cent more on nuptials in 2016.
According to the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), which is meant to represent all midwives, the role and duty of midwives must now also include assisting in ending the lives of unborn babies. And, the RCM makes clear in a new statement, if you refuse you have limited right of appeal.
It has recently come to light that for many years the RCM has been inextricably linked with the leading provider of abortions in the UK, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS). So much so that Cathy Warwick, the RCM’s CEO is also the Chair of BPAS. If that is not ‘being in bed together’, I’m not sure what is.
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has come under fire for backing the BPAS ‘We Trust Women’ Campaign, which advocates the decriminalisation of abortion up until birth.
RCM CEO Cathy Warwick gave her backing to the controversial campaign back in February, when she said that the campaign had the College’s ‘full support’.
The boss of the midwives’ union refused to quit last night – despite admitting she had no idea how many members backed her drive to scrap abortion limits.
Cathy Warwick sparked a mutiny by signing up midwives, without asking them, to a campaign to axe the 24-week restriction.
But she has vowed to continue as chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives.
Professor Warwick insisted it ‘wasn’t a necessity’ for her to ask the board of the RCM or its members before joining the campaign – which would allow women to have a baby aborted legally any time up to birth.
What the blazes has got into the Royal College of Midwives?
I ask because, to the horror of many of its wonderful members, its chief executive, Cathy Warwick, wants to scrap the time limit on abortion — a move that would pave the way for terminations of fully developed unborn babies.
It would be lovely not to get personal about this, but I can’t help thinking that Professor Warwick has taken leave of her senses.
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced legislation on Monday to protect transgender people from hate speech and discrimination, as debate rages in the United States over laws restricting their rights.
"Even today, despite all the obstacles we have overcome, the battles we have won, and the victories we have celebrated, we are still witnesses, and in some cases, victims of injustices," Mr Trudeau said in a speech at a Montreal event hosted by gay rights group Fondation Emergence.
Sex roulette parties where one person is secretly HIV positive and nobody is allowed to use condoms are on the rise, warn doctors.
The parties are usually attended by gay men, who are entertained by the 'thrill' of not knowing whether they will be infected or not.
Spanish doctors have noted a rise in the parties where attendees often take anti-viral drugs to reduce the risk of transmission.
The midwives' trade union has defended its decision to back a campaign seeking to allow women to have abortions up to nine months into pregnancy.
The Royal College of Midwives has faced a backlash from members after throwing its weight behind Britain’s biggest provider of abortions, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (Bpas), without holding a vote.
The Dean and Chapter of York Minster today defended the practice of Buddhism in Minster buildings as details of Buddhist ceremonies in yet another of England's most beautiful and historic cathedrals emerged.
York Minster said the Zen Sangha was a group that meets for meditation and to explore common ground between Zen Buddhism and the Christian faith.
Commenting on concerns arising from emergence of the details at Pentecost, the Dean of York, the Very Rev Vivienne Faull, said: "The Zen Sangha group has been granted the use of a meeting space in the Old Palace – the Minster's Library located in Dean's Park – for the last two years. They do not and have never met in the cathedral.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of Ofsted, is generally an admirably plain-spoken man, willing to talk with refreshing candour about problems in the education system that others refuse to confront. Yet his letter revealing his inspectors’ findings about scores of unregistered schools operating in England is curiously circumspect, almost mealy-mouthed. Referring to the risk that children face “indoctrination”, Sir Michael does not explain exactly which harmful ideas could be foisted on those children.
Nor would Ofsted confirm publicly that many of these unlisted schools are operated by British Muslims, parents who do not want their children to be taught in the state school system. This refusal to state plain facts is deeply troubling. If even senior officials responsible for overseeing the education system and identifying its problems are unwilling to say openly that the evidence suggests that some British Muslims are rejecting British values, how can the country ever attempt to address that problem?