Amid protest and counter-protest, Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the US.
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July 18th, 2013
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July 17th, 2013
Same-sex couples will be able to get married in England and Wales after new measures became law.
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July 17th, 2013
Abortion laws should be urgently reviewed amid evidence that pregnancies are being terminated up until full term simply because of cosmetic flaws, according to a committee of MPs and peers.
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July 17th, 2013
The number of Washington state residents who died of physician-assisted suicide rose to 83 in 2012, up from 70 in 2011, 51 in 2010 and 36 in 2009, when the state’s Death With Dignity Act took effect.
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July 17th, 2013
A major new parliamentary report is calling for urgent reform of the Abortion Act to remove the possibility of aborting disabled babies up to birth.
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July 17th, 2013
The Bishops of England and Wales have expressed disappointment after same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales today.
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July 17th, 2013
A few weeks ago an American commentator, Philip Cohen, said it was about time that public policy caught up with the reality that fewer and fewer children are being raised in homes with two parents. Since the decline of marriage was universal, he said, and, in America, would hit zero on current trends in 2042, we should learn to live without it.
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July 17th, 2013
In the House of Commons on July 4, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs was asked "when he last discussed the persecution of Christians in Eritrea"?
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July 16th, 2013
The notorious Liverpool Care Pathway, the “end of life protocol” that has been denounced by many as a form of passive euthanasia, “should be phased out” by the autumn, a parliamentary review has concluded. Instead, the one-size-fits-all approach of the LCP will be replaced with “a personalised care plan backed up by condition-specific good practice guidance and a named senior clinician responsible for its implementation,” they said.
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July 16th, 2013
The Irish Senate (Seanad) voted Tuesday morning to move forward on legislation that would create exceptions to the Catholic country’s ban on abortion, including a provision for mothers who threaten suicide that pro-life campaigners warn could be abused to legally justify any abortion at any stage of pregnancy, since the legislation issues no time limits.