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Ethics – Confidentiality putting girls at risk
June 2018
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Ethics – Confidentiality putting girls at risk

Sexual health clinics’ privacy policies may be obstacles to protecting girls from sexual exploitation, a hard-hitting report has found. As reported in the Family Education Trust’s (FET) April bulletin, the Newcastle Safeguarding Children Board’s latest report has revealed confidentiality policies could even be helping the perpetrators carry out abuse without risk of pregnancy or disease. According David Spicer, the report’s author, research into sexual health services in Newcastle found that 85 per cent of victims of sexual exploitation had accessed sexual health services. There were many instances of abused girls using the clinics to obtain contraception, but despite providing their name, age and frequency of...

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May 2018
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Ethics – Abortion clinic campaign

British mothers have launched the ‘Be Here For Me’ campaign to prevent a ban being imposed on pro-life groups standing outside abortion facilities. Mothers who were helped by vigil members outside abortion clinics have spoken out against the introduction of censorship zones that would ban help for women outside abortion facilities. As part of the launch, three women have gone public with their stories, in a video where they tell of the immense pressure they faced to go ahead with a termination. They tell how they were helped by people who were holding vigils outside the abortion clinics, and they call on the public to...

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Ethics – Chalke and transgender
May 2018
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Ethics – Chalke and transgender

Liberal pastor and author Steve Chalke has stirred up controversy yet again by publishing an e-book in which he claims the eunuch converted after meeting  Philip  the evangelist (Acts 8) was somewhat akin to today’s transgender people. His book, The gender agenda: towards a biblical theology on gender identity, reassignment and confirmation, claims to help churches forge an ‘inclusive theology’. Mr Chalke, a well-known ‘evangelical’ who allows same-sex marriages in his church, claims the Bible preaches inclusivity. However, he fails to acknowledge the clear teaching of Scripture in sexual ethics. While it is important for churches to be welcoming and loving towards all, Scripture must...

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May 2018
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Ethics – Girl Guides trans row

Girl Guide leaders have protested against new rules that allow boys self-identifying as female to share changing rooms, showers and tents with biological girls. Last year, Evangelical Times reported that the Girlguiding UK association had published guidance stating biological males could use the facilities of the gender with which they self-identify. Parents were not necessarily to be informed if their daughters were sharing facilities with biological males — even though this might mean girls as young as 12 or 13 sharing showers with biological males of 18-25 years old. However, 20 Girl Guide leaders have written to Girlguiding UK’s headquarters to challenge the rules, stating...

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Ethics – CofE same-sex decision upheld
May 2018
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Ethics – CofE same-sex decision upheld

A gay clergyman, disciplined for violating Church of England (CofE) teaching on marriage, has lost his case at the Court of Appeal. Canon Jeremy Pemberton entered into a same-sex marriage in 2014, despite CofE rules not allowing clergy to do so. He had his licence as a priest revoked for this action, whereupon he began a legal case. In 2015, he gave evidence, stating ‘no one has the right to tell you who you can or cannot marry’. But the tribunal rejected his legal arguments, and in 2016 an employment appeals tribunal agreed. The Court of Appeal heard his case in January this year, before giving...

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Ethics – Gambling stakes
May 2018
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Ethics – Gambling stakes

Government recommendations to reduce the maximum stakes on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) have not gone far enough to tackle problem gambling, a charity has warned. In March, the Gambling Commission recommended the maximum stake on FOBTs should be set at £30 or less. But campaigners believe it should be reduced to £2 — the same as slot machines — a move supported by many peers in the House of Lords, who called on the government during a recent debate to do more to tackle gambling addiction. Currently, it is possible to bet up to £100 every 20 seconds on these machines, which has contributed significantly...

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May 2018
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Ethics – Medical conscience rights

Members of the House of Lords have heard arguments for and against allowing medical practitioners to have conscience rights enshrined into UK law. In March, Baroness O’Loan’s Conscientious Objection (Medical Activities) Bill went to the Committee Stage in the House of Lords. The bill will clarify the law to ensure conscience protections are in place for medical practitioners to protect them from discrimination, enabling them to fully participate in their chosen professions and care for patients to the best of their ability. It will also allow practitioners to withdraw from end-of-life treatment, activities under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, and abortion. Under the existing...

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Ethics – Pro-lifer praying is ‘abuse’
April 2018
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Ethics – Pro-lifer praying is ‘abuse’

For pro-life supporters to pray openly outside abortion clinics is ‘abuse and harassment’, Labour MP Fabian Hamilton has claimed. The pro-abortion MP claimed abortion was an issue of ‘gender equality’, as he backed laws on ‘buffer zones’ around abortion centres. Those who stand outside or near abortion centres, keeping vigil and praying for the mothers and their unborn children, should have the whole rule book thrown at them, he said. The MP for Leeds North East was quoted in the Yorkshire Evening Post as saying, ‘Anybody that seeks to actively deter the rights of these women to seek medical treatment must face the full extent...

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