The Equality Commission in Northern Ireland have announced that they will proceed with a civil case against Asher’s bakery, the family-run Christian business which faced threats of legal action from the Comission after refusing to bake a cake ordered by two gay-rights activists bearing the slogan “support gay marriage”. According to RTE, general manager of...
A bill definitively stating that abortion on the grounds of the sex of the unborn child is illegal has passed the House of Commons on a cross-party vote. According to the Daily Telegrahp, MPs voted 181 to 1 for a motion brought forward by Conservative MP Fiona Bruce in an effort to end uncertainty over...
A sweeping new pro-family tax reform has been announced by the Canadian government. It has promised to allow “income-splitting” for tax purposes. This will help families where one spouse earns all or most of the income. The change, which comes as part of a package of pro-family tax and benefit policies, was a key election...
A new report into applications for children to be taken into State care in the Republic of Ireland has found that in seven in ten of the cases examined, the children involved were being raised by single parents at the time of the Child and Family Agency taking them into care, with a further 10...
Pope Francis has warned against marriage being reduced to “mere association”, and said that there is a “crisis” in the family, which is being “beat up from all sides.” Speaking to members of an international Marian movement, the Pope said, “The family is being hit, the family is being struck and the family is being...
Seven different churches compelled to cover elective abortions via their health insurance plans are suing California Governor Jerry Brown’s administration, with assistance from Alliance Defending Freedom and Life Legal Defence Foundation. In August, after two Catholic universities refused to offer abortion coverage in their employee insurance plans, California’s Department of Managed Healthcare issued letters saying...
Providing free nursery care to three-year-olds has only temporary effects on children’s development and educational performance, with the advantages disappearing by the time a child reaches the age of 11, according to a new study. Research presented to the House of Lords by the Institute of Education and the universities of Surrey and Essex found...
Doctors and nurses in the UK who assist someone in taking their own lives will be less likely to face criminal charges after a change in prosecution guidelines, the Daily Telegraph reports. Until now all health care professionals faced a greater chance than others of being prosecuted for helping people to die because they were...
Egg and sperm donation should become “as obvious as blood donation”, the chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in the UK, despite the thousands of donor-conceived children who believe they suffered a loss from not knowing their biological parents. The Daily Telegraph reports that Lisa Jardine said clinics should “improve their customer service”....
Finance Minister, Michael Noonan, has said that he has no intention of reversing tax individualisation. This is despite opposing it when it was introduced by Charlie McCreevy in Budget 2000. Speaking on Today With Sean O’Rourke, Mr Noonan said in response to a caller’s question that individualisation was now a key part of the tax...
