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  • Guardian: Chile takes step towards easing ban on abortions
    August 5th, 2015

    Chile has taken a step towards easing its strict abortion ban with legislators in the lower chamber of Congress voting to advance a bill overturning the prohibition.

  • Guardian: Councils allowed to relax Sunday trade laws to promote 'thriving high streets'
    August 5th, 2015

    Under government plans to allow high streets to "grow and thrive", councils will be given powers to zone areas where Sunday trading laws could be relaxed. The changes would mean that a local council could declare that shops on a designated high street could be allowed to operate under more relaxed hours while out-of-town shopping centres with fewer local ties could face restrictions.

  • Guardian: Judge tags families over fears they could take children to Islamic State areas
    August 5th, 2015
    Adult members of two families have been ordered by a judge to be immediately fitted with electronic monitoring tags because of fears they could take children to areas controlled by Islamic State.
     
    Sir James Munby, president of the family division of the high court, ruled the tagging measure – believed to be the first of its kind –was necessary to end the children’s separation from their parents while ensuring their safety was protected.
  • Life News: 5th shocking video catches Planned Parenthood official selling "fully intact" aborted babies
    August 4th, 2015
    The pro-life advocates behind the four shocking videos exposing Planned Parenthood selling the body parts of aborted babies for research have released a 5th video today that catches a Planned Parenthood official discussing how the abortion business sells "fully intact" aborted babies.
     
    The video, which follows Senate Democrats defeating a bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood, makes it appear the Planned Parenthood abortion business may be selling the “fully intact” bodies of unborn babies purposefully born alive and left to die.
  • BBC: Alliance Party (NI) in gay marriage pledge
    August 4th, 2015
    The Alliance Party has said it will make a commitment of support for same sex marriage part of its manifesto for the next Assembly election.
     
    The move comes as the party's Trevor Lunn announced at an event in Belfast that he would now support gay marriage.
     
    The Lagan Valley MLA told the BBC a number of things had changed his mind.
  • Independent: Isis 'price list' for child slaves confirmed as genuine by UN official Zainab Bangura
    August 4th, 2015
    A United Nations official has said that she has seen a 'price list' for child slaves that has been circulated amongst Isis fighters in Syria and Iraq.
     
    Zainab Bangura, the UN's Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict, said that she was given a copy of the list during a trip to Iraq in April.
     
    The list surfaced online in November last year, but proved difficult to verify as genuine. Now , Bangura says she can confirm that the document is real, after spending time in the region.
  • BBC: First 3D-printed pill approved by US authorities
    August 4th, 2015
    In a world first, the US Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead for a 3D-printed pill to be produced.
     
    The FDA has previously approved medical devices - including prosthetics - that have been 3D printed.
     
    The new drug, dubbed Spritam, was developed by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals to control seizures brought on by epilepsy.
  • BBC: Social work delays can put children at risk, says Ofsted
    August 4th, 2015
    Vulnerable children in England could be at risk because of delays in social workers' assessments of the care they need, Ofsted has said in a report.
  • Spectator: Assisted dying will make old age seem unbearable
    August 3rd, 2015

    Gill Pharaoh was a geriatric care nurse who had spent years caring for the elderly. When she herself began to grow old, she decided that she didn't want to go through what her patients had suffered, travelled to Switzerland, and passed away at an assisted dying clinic. She was not terminally ill. She didn't want to be elderly and infirm.

    Given Pharaoh worked with those who are old, she clearly knew what the lot of the elderly in this country is. And she didn't like it. She wrote before her death on 21 July that she didn't want to go further 'downhill' and that life 'is not going to start to get better'.

  • BBC: MP - Use anti-terror powers on Christian teachers who say gay marriage is ‘wrong’
    August 3rd, 2015

    New banning orders intended to clamp down on hate preachers and terrorist propagandists should be used against Christian teachers who teach children that gay marriage is “wrong”, a Tory MP has argued.