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| The ‘writing could be on the wall’ for free speech if Extremism Disruption Orders (EDOs) are introduced, warned The Christian Institute (CI) and the National Secular society (NSS) in a rare joint statement issued in late December. The Director of CI and the Executive Director of NSS highlighted the dangers of introducing overly broad legislation using vague definitions. They warned that the plans could inadvertently turn millions of ordinary citizens into potential `extremists’ virtually overnight. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now - February 2016 |
| A Doctor who was suspended for offering an abortion to a women on the grounds of the child’s gender had his ban lifted in late February. Dr Palaniappan Rajmohan was recorded by undercover journalists from The Telegraph in 2012, offering to arrange an abortion for a women because the child was a girl. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now – April 2016 |
| The number of vehicles without road tax in the UK has doubled to 560,000 this year, according to the latest figures. The increase follows the Government’s decision to abolish the paper tax disc. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel - 27th November 2015 |
| More than one million people used foodbanks in the UK this year. Of this number, almost 400,000 were children. This is a 19% increase on the previous year. More than 30,000 professionals (social workers, health visitors, schools liaison officers, etc) referred people to Trussell Trust food banks in 2014-15. More than 90% of food given out by Trussell Trust food banks is donated by the public. | |
| Social Issues | Youthwork - December 2015 |
| US abortion giant Planned Parenthood (PP) has been exposed for illegally harvesting aborted babies' body parts, but President Obama has vetoed a bill to defund the organisation. The Senate as well as the House had passed a bill to defund PP for one year. | |
| Social Issues | Christian Concern - 16th January 2016 |
| Over a third of British people are unaware of local charities in their area with no knowledge of the work that they do, according to research by TSB Bank. | |
| Social Issues | Civil Society News - 20th January 2016 |
| Police will continue to turn a blind eye to prostitution activity in an area of Leeds, after it was announced that a red light district set up in 2014 will be allowed to exist indefinitely. | |
| Social Issues | The Christian Institute - 15th January 2016 |
| A person’s sex is not relevant for passports or driving licences, a former Conservative minister has said. | |
| Social Issues | Christian Institute - 8th January 2016 |
| Hundreds of taxi drivers in Scotland are being ordered to ‘spy’ on child passengers and report conversations to their Named Person, a secret recording has revealed. | |
| Social Issues | Christian Institute - 8th January 2016 |
| A video has been released, exposing US abortion giant Planned Parenthood's (PP) illegal harvesting of baby body parts. The video, produced by the Center for Medical Progress, is a compilation of previously released footage that highlights PP's illicit profiteering from the sale of the body parts of aborted babies. For the first time, the Senate, as well as the House, has passed a bill to defund PP for one year. | |
| Social Issues | Christian Concern - 9th January 2016 |
| Adults should be allowed to ‘choose’ their legal gender, a committee of MPs is set to propose. A report, due to be made public next week, is expected to state that over-18s should be able to ‘change’ their legal gender simply by filling out an application form. | |
| Social Issues | Christian Concern - 9th January 2016 |
| Women who had already had three or more abortions accounted for a further 4,600 abortions in 2014, the Department of Health has reported. Vix Proctor, a spokesperson for the abortion provider Marie Stopes, said that a majority of these women resort to abortions as "short-term methods of contraception". | |
| Social Issues | Christian Concern - 14th November 2015 |
| A prenatal test for detecting Down’s Syndrome could lead to gender-abortions, the Department of Health has warned. A review suggests that the NIPT test has become "the main technological development" to reveal a baby's sex from seven weeks onward. Added to the tragedy of abortions due to Down's, there are now concerns that women may abort on the basis of gender. | |
| Social Issues | Christian Concern - 14th November 2015 |
| The UK is the only G7 country to record rising wealth inequality – the disparity in the people’s total assets – throughout the period of 2000-2014, a report by Credit Suisse Research Institute shows: a trend, it’s says, that is likely to continue beyond 2019. | |
| Social Issues | Third Way - July 2015 |
| Figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest that boys born in the well-off district of South Cambridgeshire can expect to live to 83 – nearly nine years longer than their compatriots in disadvantaged Blackpool. Girls in the prosperous Chiltern district can expect to live to 86 - six years longer than those in Manchester. | |
| Social Issues | Third Way - July 2015 |
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