Britain’s highest court has thrown out three challenges to laws against assisted suicide.
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June 30th, 2014
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June 23rd, 2014
As U.S. lawsuits seeking gay-marriage rights move toward a likely showdown at the Supreme Court next year, major law firms are rushing to get involved - but only on the side of the proponents.
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June 23rd, 2014
A judge who condemned a Christian couple for turning away gay guests from their hotel yesterday said her decision may have been wrong.
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June 23rd, 2014
Soldiers are unwittingly being fed halal meat in military bases , the Ministry of Defence has admitted.
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June 16th, 2014
There is no smoke without fire. Day one of the Megamosque Inquiry in London’s Docklands and already the only Muslim brave enough to give evidenceagainst the mosque has withdrawn. Why? Not because she was ‘intimidated’, but because she was ‘persuaded’.
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June 16th, 2014
The UK abortion statistics for 2013 are out and they make for uncomfortable reading. It’s true that abortion rate is down, but the number of abortions is up – by 2.1 per cent since 2003.
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June 16th, 2014
Half of all babies aborted for Down’s Syndrome are missing from official figures due to chaotic record-keeping in abortion clinics, a government investigation has revealed.
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June 9th, 2014
Vulnerable disabled elderly people will be treated as if their lives are “worth” less than those of everyone else if assisted suicide is legalised, a group prominent disability campaigners argues today.
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June 9th, 2014Babies with ‘three parents’ could be created in British laboratories within two years, it emerged yesterday.
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June 8th, 2014
To make laws is relatively easy: it’s enforcing them that is complicated. Legislators brandish great words, “send a message” and proclaim themselves on the side of the angels, but there are aspects of human behaviour that are hard to tame. On Wednesday the Queen’s Speech may contain something illustrating that: what has become known as “the Cinderella law”.