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  • Spectator: Charlie Falconer vs Douglas Murray on assisted dying
    August 27th, 2015

    The Assisted Dying Bill will return to the Commons and Lords in the near future – are we prepared for the consequences?

  • Guardian: Ministers want BBC to consider 'assisted suicide', says Armando Iannucci
    August 27th, 2015
    The award-winning writer behind The Thick of It and Veep has accused ministers of effectively trying to kill off the BBC and urged people to defend it against politicians and Rupert Murdoch.
     
    Armando Iannucci said it would be “bad capitalism” to diminish the national broadcaster, and said the debate about its future had been poisoned by the newspaper industry.
     
    “If the BBC were a weapons system, half the cabinet would be on a plane to Saudi Arabia to tell them how brilliant it was,” Iannucci told an audience of leading TV executives at the Guardian Edinburgh international television festival.
  • Times (£): Record fall in teenage pregnancies
    August 26th, 2015
    Teenage pregnancies have fallen to the lowest level ever recorded, although a regional breakdown reveals figures have started to creep up in the North West.
     
    There were 5,740 pregnancies in girls aged under 18 in the three months to June last year, according to the Office for National Statistics, down nine per cent from the same period last year.
  • BBC: Syria conflict: New 'IS chemical attack'
    August 25th, 2015
    Islamic State militants may have used chemical weapons in an attack on a town in northern Syria on Friday.
     
    Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Tuesday it had treated four members of a family who suffered from breathing difficulties and developed blisters after a mortar hit their home in Marea.
     
    The Syrian American Medical Society has also reported receiving 50 patients showing symptoms of chemical exposure.
  • Life News: Planned Parenthood sells "a lot" of aborted babies - new video
    August 25th, 2015
    Last Friday, the pro-life group behind the shocking expose’ videos of Planned Parenthood selling aborted babies and their body parts released a preview of its 8th video in the series. Now the full video has been released.
     
    While the videos have focused on the Planned Parenthood abortion business, the biotech firm StemExpress, which buys and resells aborted baby body parts from the abortion giant, has filed a lawsuit seeking to block some information the Center for Medical Progress obtained in its three year undercover operation. Just a short time after a judge issued a ruling that the biotech firm StemExpress can’t block the Center for Medical Progress from releasing videos, it put together a preview of its latest installment.
     
    StemExpress is a for-profit biotech supply company that has been partnered with Planned Parenthood clinics across the country to purchase human fetal parts since its founding in 2010. StemExpress’ Medical Director, Dr. Ronald Berman, is an abortion doctor for Planned Parenthood Mar Monte in California.
  • BBC: Spain and Morocco make 'Islamic State' arrests
    August 25th, 2015

    Spain and Morocco have arrested 14 people in a joint operation targeting suspected recruiters for the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.

  • Federalist: What just 1 of those 320 Planned Parenthood protests looked like
    August 24th, 2015

    People who oppose Planned Parenthood’s practice of selling organs and body parts from the unborn children whose lives they end showed up at 320 of the abortion corporation’s facilities across the country on Saturday. Despite the newsiness and far-reaching national nature of the protest action, media coverage was extremely sparse. Here is what just one of the nearly 320 Planned Parenthood protests looked like. The crowd pictured here, which had more than 850 people in it, spread across three streets and across intersections at the clinic in Falls Church, Virginia. No mainstream reporters were at the protest, despite hundreds of political and cultural reporters working nearby.

  • Catholic Herald: BBC stands by ‘unpopular’ religious Radio 4 programmes
    August 24th, 2015
    A public consultation found that religious programmes are the BBC's least well received radio shows.
     
    The BBC Trust has said it has no plans to change the corporation’s religious radio programmes, despite their apparent lack of popularity.
     
    In a public consultation, the governing body of the broadcaster found that religious programmes were the most poorly rated by listeners, with “just under two-thirds” of the Radio 4 audience (63 per cent) rating them as “good”.
  • News Letter: No action on abortion arrests challenge after a month
    August 24th, 2015
    No pro-abortion demonstrators have been detained and questioned one month after publicly challenging the police to arrest them.
     
    The campaigners from the group Alliance for Choice declared that they had broken the law by taking or procuring abortion drugs, and invited the PSNI to apprehend them.
  • Telegraph: Assisted dying leaves vulnerable at risk, warns alliance of doctors
    August 24th, 2015
    Allowing doctors to help terminally ill people to take their own lives would ‘devalue the most vulnerable’ in society, a group of physicians has warned.
     
    Next month the House of Commons will debate whether to overturn the ban on assisted suicide.
     
    But a group of nearly 80 doctors across the country has written an open letter to MPs warning that many elderly and disabled people already feel pressured to end their own lives because they think they are a burden to relatives.