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Falconer Commission recommends legalising assisted suicide
January 5th, 2012 | End of life
Lord Falconer’s ‘Commission on Assisted Dying’ released their proposals today (5 Jan) and recommended that doctors should be allowed to assist terminally ill patients to kill themselves, as long as the patients had less than a year to live, and provided they meet certain criteria.
Christians given three days to leave Northern Nigeria
January 4th, 2012 | International Persecution
The militant Islamist group Boko Haram issued an ultimatum on Sunday 1st January giving Christians living in northern Nigeria three days to leave the area. This followed a number of attacks by the militants on churches and other targets over Christmas leaving more than 40 people dead.
Senior Judge launches campaign to strengthen marriage
January 4th, 2012 | Family, Social
A senior High Court Judge, Sir Paul Coleridge, has announced plans to launch a £150,000-a-year marriage campaign to tackle increasing divorce rates in Britain and bring an end to the "appalling and costly impact of family breakdown".
Charles Falconer’s bent jury – why we should not be surprised by their ‘conclusions’
January 3rd, 2012 | End of life
Charles Falconer’s ‘Commission on Assisted Dying’ is due to report on Thursday 5 January 2012, over a year after it first launched in November 2010, but its recommendations have already being leaked (ie. pre-announced) this week and we can expect more drip-drip as the week goes on.
SNP discuss possible homosexual ‘marriage’ compromise
December 21st, 2011 | Religious Freedom, Sexual Orientation
The Scottish Government is considering a compromise deal on homosexual ‘marriage’, whereby it would be brought into force, yet kept from being allowed to take place on religious premises. This follows the launch of a consultation on homosexual marriage earlier this year which has received tens of thousands of responses.
Government under fire from former Archbishop of Canterbury
December 13th, 2011 | Employment, Equality, Religious Freedom
The Government has been heavily criticised by Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, over its decision not to back four British Christians who have taken their cases to the European Court of Human Rights.
Children aged 5 set to learn about “transgender equality” in schools
December 12th, 2011 | Sexual Orientation
The government has announced plans to introduce lessons on “transgender equality” in primary and secondary schools across the country. The reforms, contained in a policy programme entitled ‘Advancing transgender equality – a plan for action’, will add transgender issues to the PSHE curriculum for children aged 5 and above in order to ensure that schools were ‘more inclusive for gender-variant children’.
Abortion Review confirms that 98% of all abortions in Britain are technically illegal
December 9th, 2011 | Abortion
The most comprehensive and systematic review to date into the link between abortion and mental health problems has confirmed that women who have an unplanned pregnancy are at an increased risk of experiencing mental health problems after an abortion.
A new milestone in irresponsible media reporting of suicide
December 8th, 2011 | End of life
An international media platform has been given to a new case of assisted suicide involving a media personality who was dying of cancer. The story has broken today. 
Urgent: Respond to Scottish Homosexual Marriage Consultation
December 8th, 2011 | Sexual Orientation
The Scottish Government is consulting on proposals to redefine marriage in order to allow two men or two women to marry, and also to allow civil partnerships onto religious premises with religious services. Its "initial view" is to support the redefining marriage, but it is also listening to all views.
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