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.”