Uruguay has voted by a razor-thin margin to legalise abortion, becoming only the second country in Latin America to make abortions accessible to all women during the first trimester of pregnancy.
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September 27th, 2012
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September 27th, 2012
The call by B J Connell, (The Herald, September 20) for the Government and medical profession to change the law on euthanasia and assisted suicide, fills me with foreboding and confirms the power of a concerted media effort to sway public opinion through emotive BBC TV programmes and celebrities such as Sir Terry Pratchett, a patron of Dignity in Dying – formally the Voluntary Euthanasia Society.
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September 27th, 2012
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any stranger — or at least give a glimpse of how strange they will soon become for us — France has decided to ban the words “mother” and “father” in regard to the civil-legal treatment of marriage.
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September 27th, 2012
Last week, two same-sex marriage bills were firmly rejected. As a result, campaigning journalists feel confused, even wounded. Or at least they’re pretending to be upset right now. Why isn’t their atheist prime minister on their side?
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September 27th, 2012
According to Dutch media reports today, euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands in 2011 increased by 18% to 3,695. This follows increases of 13% in 2009 and 19% in 2010.
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September 27th, 2012
As with most of the jurisdictions that have adopted “gay marriage,” France will be changing the language of its laws and regulations related to marriage and parenthood to eliminate the terms “mother” and “father”. All references to mothers and fathers, the government has said, will be changed to “parents”.
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September 27th, 2012
The very day Canada’s Parliament rejected Stephen Woodworth’s motion to re-examine the definition of human life, a British Columbia Tory launched a new salvo with a motion calling on the House to condemn sex-selective abortion.
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September 27th, 2012
Brazilian authorities detained the country's Google chief after the company failed to remove YouTube videos that the court ruled violate Brazilian electoral law despite a judges order.
Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/09/27/brazil-detains-google-chief-over-anti-islam-youtube-clip/#ixzz27l2waBO4
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September 27th, 2012
Churches and other religious institutions should be free to stage gay weddings, Ed Miliband said when backing Government plans to legislate for same-sex marriages as a sign that Britain is a "modern country".
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September 27th, 2012
Ed Miliband has called for churches to be able to hold same-sex marriages if they want to "provide that opportunity", as part of a campaign for equal marriage.