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News Bulletin 1 March 2013

More Britons than ever before are travelling to Swiss clinic Digntas to end their lives. It’s raised fresh concerns that assisted suicide is effectively being legalised, with the police failing to fully investigate the deaths — A controversial sex education programme in Scotland, the ‘Healthy Respect Scheme’, which has been running for over 10 years has had very little impact on teenage behaviour, a study at Edinburgh Napier University found — A police chaplain in Strathclyde has been removed from his post because he doesn’t agree with gay marriage — International news giant Thomson Reuters, which runs the Reuters news agency, has expressed its ‘support’ for the UK Government’s plans to redefine marriage — Talks have started in Northern Ireland between ministers and medical officials, to discuss presumed organ donation, with Health Minister Edwin Poots saying he plans to consider an ‘opt-out’ system — A Senior family lawyer has said that politicians are too frightened to admit family breakdown is causing major damage in society — And a quarter of a million ‘Military BibleSticks’ are set to be deployed overseas for use by US chaplains and troops, – the devices contain an mp3 audio copy of the New Testament.

News Bulletin 22 February 2013

The chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners Dr Clare Gerada says the organisation should drop its opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide, and go ‘neutral’ — In Belgium, Senators have begun looking into allowing euthanasia for children, just eleven years after it legalised the practice for adults — Registrars who believe in traditional marriage should be ‘forced’ to conduct gay weddings against their will, according to the Equality and Human Rights Commission — An influential group of NHS experts is urging the Scottish Government to allow the morning-after pill to be handed out in schools — A branch of the fast food chain Subway has been forced to shut after it advertised a Valentine’s Day deal that did not include gay couples — And a mother from Carlisle with locked-in syndrome, has defied doctor’s expectations for her condition with the message “Don’t give up.”