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  • The Blaze: Christian student expelled from course for views on gay marriage wins right to fight the university
    April 26th, 2017

    A Christian master's student kicked out of a course at England's University of Sheffield for expressing his biblical view of gay marriage has won the right to challenge the college's decision.

    Felix Ngole, 39, published a Facebook post in which he reportedly quoted Leviticus and criticized homosexuality in support of Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, the local government official who was briefly jailed in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

    He said at the time that he is "not against people who are in same-sex relationships" but said he should be "free to express" his personal perspective as a Christian.

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  • BBC: New HIV drug 'should not be funded by NHS Wales'
    April 26th, 2017

    A "game-changing" drug which dramatically cuts the chances of being infected with HIV should not be provided by the NHS in Wales, a body has recommended.

    The All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) has advised the Welsh Government not to fund the daily pill Prep.

    It said the case for cost-effectiveness "had not been proven".

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  • Transgender Trend: Teaching Kids About Trans: The Australian Safe Schools Programme
    April 26th, 2017

    Three years after it was launched in Australia, the 'Safe Schools' programme has been scrapped in New South Wales by the Education Minister Bob Stokes and funding has been allocated for a new anti-bullying programme to take its place.

    Safe Schools is the equivalent of UK organisations such as Gendered Intelligence, GIRES and the government-backed Educate and Celebrate. Going into schools ostensibly to raise awareness and prevent bullying of 'LGBT' pupils, these organisations train both teachers and children in 'gender identity' ideology which says that your sex is randomly assigned to you at birth by someone and you can choose to change it. 'Boy' and 'girl' are redefined as states of mind, unrelated in any way to biological sex. This belief is taught to children as fact.

    There were two contrasting articles published on this story in the Australian press: the first blamed the programme for the spike in children and adolescents self-identifying as 'transgender,' as reported by the NSW Education Department.

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  • Heat Street: Describing Breastfeeding as 'Natural' Is Unethical Because It Reinforces Gender Roles
    April 26th, 2017

    It's "ethically inappropriate" for government and medical organizations to describe breastfeeding as "natural" because the term enforces rigid notions about gender roles, claims a new study in Pediatrics.

    "Coupling nature with motherhood… can inadvertently support biologically deterministic arguments about the roles of men and women in the family (for example, that women should be the primary caretaker," the study says.

    The study notes that in recent years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organization, and several state departments of health have all promoted breastfeeding over bottle-feeding, using the term "natural."

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  • Daily Record: 'I'm taking my own life while I still can' Tragic Scots MS sufferer has 'death row' date at Swiss clinic
    April 26th, 2017

    A man crippled by multiple sclerosis says he is living on "death row" after being given a date to end his life in a Swiss clinic.

    Colin Campbell has a rare form of the degenerative disease and is barely able to leave his home.

    After falling ill last winter, he decided to take his life while he can. Doctors at the Lifecircle Clinic in Basel last week gave the 56-year-old a death date of June 15.

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  • Mail: Christian RE teacher wins right to fight decision to throw him off uni course for saying gay marriage was sinful
    April 26th, 2017

    A religious education teacher has won the right to challenge a university which threw him off a degree course after he suggested same-sex marriage was a sin.

    Felix Ngole, 39, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said he had been lawfully expressing a traditional Christian view during an online discussion and complained that bosses at Sheffield University unfairly stopped him completing a postgraduate degree in social work.

    He has now been given the go-ahead to argue his case in the High Court.

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  • Telegraph: High Court to rule on Christian student declared unfit to practice as a social worker because of 'traditional' views on homosexuality
    April 25th, 2017

    The High Court will rule on whether Christians who express "traditional" views on homosexuality can be barred from gaining professional qualifications after a social work student won the right to challenge his expulsion.

    Felix Ngole, 39, was removed from a two-year MA course at Sheffield University in February last year after saying during a Facebook debate that "the Bible and God identify homosexuality as a sin".

    He received permission to mount a judicial review in a preliminary hearing at the High Court. The full case will be heard later this year.

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  • DW: Fury at Saudi election to UN women's rights group
    April 25th, 2017

    The decision "is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief," said a watchdog. Saudi Arabia is known for its systematic oppression of women, all of whom are required to have a male guardian.

    Rights groups were outraged on Tuesday after an announcement from the United Nations that Saudi Arabia was elected to the body's women's rights commission. Activists found it ludicrous that a nation with one of the worst records of gender equality on the planet would have a representative on the 45-member committee.

    According to the website for the UN Commission on the Status of Women, its mission to "promoting women's rights, documenting the reality of women’s lives throughout the world, and shaping global standards on gender equality and the empowerment of women."

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  • Guardian: Artificial womb for premature babies successful in animal trials
    April 25th, 2017

    An artificial womb designed to support critically premature babies has been demonstrated successfully in animals for the first time, in an advance that could transform the lives of the most fragile newborns.

    Lambs born at the equivalent of 23 weeks in a human pregnancy were kept alive and appeared to develop normally while floating inside the transparent, womb-like vessel for four weeks after birth. Doctors said that the pioneering approach could radically improve outcomes for babies born so early that they cannot breathe, feed or fight infection without medical help.

    Alan Flake, a foetal surgeon at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and lead author, said the proposed system could act as an urgently needed bridge between the mother's womb and the outside world for babies born at between 23 to 28 weeks gestation.

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  • Amnesty: Honduras: Historic opportunity to decriminalize abortion
    April 25th, 2017

    Ahead of a debate in the Honduran congress today over the country’s criminalization of abortion, Amnesty International’s Americas Director Erika Guevara-Rosas said:

    "By criminalizing abortion, the Honduran Penal Code is incompatible with human rights standards and must be modified without delay."

    "Preventing women from exercising their human rights by stopping them from being able to make decisions over their own bodies only puts their health and lives in danger."

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