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  • Telegraph: Netflix and Facebook now offer gender reassignment as a staff benefit
    September 23rd, 2015
    Staff at Silicon Valley companies including Netflix and Facebook are now being offered gender reassignment procedures as an employee benefit.
     
    Claiming on their work health insurance, staff can receive treatment including hormone therapy and sex-reassignment surgeries.

    Goldman Sachs has offered the procedures as part of their health care package since 2008, but this year a further 82 companies have included gender reassignment in their deals.

    Netflix, Facebook and Tesla Motors are among 415 companies included in a survey of 780 firms who now offer the procedures.
  • No to Assisted Suicide: Palliative care plea
    September 23rd, 2015

    A cross-party group of 60 MPs have urged parliament — and the government — to increase funding for palliative care in the light of the vote on assisted suicide last week.

  • Telegraph: Foreign fighter weeps as he sets off on Syria suicide mission
    September 23rd, 2015
    A young militant in Syria has been filmed bursting into tears as he sets off on the suicide bombing mission that will end his life.
     
    The young man, a foreign fighter with an Uzbek militia aligned with Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, is seen in the video with his head poking out of the top of an armoured vehicle packed with explosives.
     
    The narration gives his name as Jafar al-Tayyar, and he appears to be in his early twenties. It praises him as "first volunteer mujahid of Mawarannahr," according to a translation provided by Radio Free Europe, which found the video on Youtube before it was taken down.
  • Premier: 9 in 10 workers at large stores oppose Sunday trading proposals
    September 23rd, 2015
    The vast majority of retail staff at large stores across the UK are opposed to longer opening hours. 
     
    New research by the shop workers' trade union Usdaw shows 91% would be against the Government plans to relax the current laws.
     
    The survey of over 10,000 workers has been passed on to the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
  • Nature: The hidden risks for 'three-person' babies
    September 23rd, 2015
    The powerhouses of the cell may have more roles than expected. Could that generate problems for mitochondrial replacement therapies?
  • Mirror: ISIS turn churches into torture chambers to force Christians to convert to Islam
    September 23rd, 2015

    Christians are being barbarically tortured by ISIS in their own churches to force them to convert to Islam.
     

    Religious persecution watchdog Christian Freedom International reports those who defy the militants have had limbs cut off or have been crucified — even children.
     
    “ISIS has a stated goal to wipe out Christianity,” Jay Sekulow, of the American Center for Law and Justice told the Jerusalem Post.
     
    “This is why they are crucifying Christians — which includes children — destroying churches and selling artifacts. The reality is, this group will stop at practically nothing to raise funds for its terrorist mission.”
  • Breaking News: Marriage Equality Bill set for Dáil introduction
    September 23rd, 2015
    The Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald will formally introduce the Marriage Equality Bill to the Dáil today.
     
    This follows on from the resounding Yes vote in the referendum last May.
     
    The legislation will now go through the Houses of the Oireachtas, clearing the path for the country's first same-sex marriages.
  • Herald Scotland (£): Row as ministers refuse civil partnerships to straight couples
    September 23rd, 2015
    Equality campaigners have reacted angrily to a government proposal to scrap civil partnerships and rule out allowing heterosexual couples to enter into the unions in Scotland.
     
    Ministers have launched a consultation asking whether civil partnerships, which were introduced less than a decade ago and are only available to same-sex couples, should remain as they are or be phased out.
     
    It has welcomed views on extending the right to everybody, but the SNP Government made it clear that it is "not persuaded" by the option, citing possible cost implications and the likely low demand.
  • Life News: Women celebrate killing their babies in abortions with #ShoutYourAbortion hashtag on Twitter
    September 22nd, 2015

    Yesterday, thousands of women expressed their love for abortion and shared their “positive” abortion stories on Twitter using the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion. Unbelievably, their hashtag was trending in the United States. View some of the tweets below.

  • Premier: Christian Institute launches campaign against government extremism proposals
    September 22nd, 2015
    A Christian charity is starting a new campaign against what it believes are government plans to stifle free speech.
     
    Defend Free Speech, spearheaded by the Christian Institute and the National Secular Society, opposes the government's plans to introduce Extremism Disruption Orders (EDOs), which would allow police to apply to the High Court to restrict the movement and activities of people they deem to be "extremists".
     
    EDOs are similar to Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs), except with extremist behaviour as opposed to anti-social behaviour.
     
    It is currently unclear what exactly authorities would deem as extremism, however the Defend Free Speech campaign believes it could be used to stop Christians and other groups such as secular, environmental or trade union groups sharing unpopular, traditional or challenging views.