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				<title>19 Jun 13 Maternal health better in Ireland with no abortion than in UK says study  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Pregnant women have better health outcomes in Ireland and Northern Ireland, where the laws on abortion are very restrictive compared with women in Britain, where it is freely available, according to a new study. The study, published in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons compared national health data over a period of 40 years.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:47:45 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>19 Jun 13 Pro-same-sex marriage stories predominate in US media</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A new study shows that the US media have covered stories weighted in favour of same-sex marriage five times more than they have covered statements opposing it. The survey, by the Pew Media Centre, measured the coverage of same-sex marriage in the US media from March 18th, 2013 - a week before the US Supreme Court heard arguments about the issue, to May 12th.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:37:37 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>18 Jun 13 Stand-alone abortion law will deal with children in care  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A stand-alone law to deal with teenage girls and children in state care who request abortions is to be introduced by the Government. The Government has ruled out introducing any amendment to its current abortion legislation to acknowledge a distinction between women over the age of 18, who have the right to refuse or consent to medical treatment, and underage girls, for whom there are no clear laws governing issues of capacity and consent, The Irish Independent reports.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:41:52 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>18 June 13 The Village applies the logic of egalitarianism to marriage</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ We have argued for a long time that the logic of egalitarianism when applied to marriage leads inexorably to it being stripped of special status entirely. The Village magazine agrees. It doesn’t think marriage should have special status. For sure, it believes that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, but it believes no special privileges should attach to marriage because that would treat other family types less equally. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:32:21 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>18 Jun 13 Record number of UK children living without their fathers</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A record number of children in the UK, over three million, are being raised by lone parents, and an estimated one million of these have no meaningful contact with their father, according to a new report by a leading think tank. The report, Fractured Families: Why Stability Matters, published by the Centre for Social Justice, also found that there are an additional 130,000 lone parent families since 2006. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>17 Jun 13 Obama opposed to religious freedom clause</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Legislation which would oblige the US military to accomodate "actions and speech" reflecting the "conscience, moral principles, or religious beliefs of members of the armed services is being “strongly opposed” by the Obama Administration.
Section 530 of the National Defence Authorisation Act ia an amendment introduced by Republican Representative John Fleming from Louisiana. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:58:45 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>15 Jun 13 French mayor faces up to five years in prison for gay marriage stance</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A mayor from the town of Arcangues in the South West of France is facing up to five years in prison and fine of up to £63,000 for declining to carry out a same-sex marriage. Jean-Michel Colo, who has been mayor for 31 years, rejected a wedding application from two men and says he stands by his decision. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:35:24 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>15 Jun 13 Chief Rabbi exposes the intellectual shallowness of the new atheists</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The last decade has seen a surge in fashionable atheism, led by the likes of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. But in this piece in the Spectator, the UK's Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, tackles their intellectual superficiality. He makes the point that the New Atheists have been lamentably weak at facing up to the ethical and moral implications of their atheism. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:23:37 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>14 Jun 13 Fine Gael TDs to demand free vote on abortion</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Fine Gael TDs are set to demand a free vote on abortion legislation from Enda Kenny to prevent a serious split in the party. Three of Mr Kenny's TDs will almost definitely vote against the Protection of Life Bill, the Irish Independent reports. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:40:47 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Pro-Life Campaign welcomes Halappanavar report</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Pro Life Campaign has welcomed the publication of the Health Service Executive (HSE) report into the death of Savita Halappanavar. The report, published yesterday found there was inadequate assessment and monitoring to pick up the deterioration in her condition, a failure to adhere to hospital guidelines for managing sepsis and a failure to offer her all management options as she experienced inevitable miscarriage. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:37:28 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>13 Jun 13 Catholic hospitals must perform abortions, Reilly says</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Catholic hospitals will not be allowed to refuse to perform an abortion on conscientious grounds, Health Minister Dr James Reilly has said. “All institutions mentioned (in the Bill) are funded by the taxpayer. We could not have a situation where a service funded by the taxpayer could deprive a citizen of their rights,” he said. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:10:48 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>13 Jun 13 Suicide clause of abortion legilslation ignores evidence, says PLC</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Pro Life Campaign (PLC) criticised the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill, published early this morning, for retaining a provision for terminations for suicidal women. Caroline Simons, legal advisor to the Pro-Life Campaign, said the “overwhelming weight of evidence” given by psychiatrists during the hearings on the Bill was that “this is not an appropriate treatment and they do not prescribe it for women who are suicidal”. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:11:58 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>13 Jun 13 Equality obsession marginalising Christians, MPs say</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Local authorities are overly “suspicious” about faith groups, creating barriers to working with them on social projects, a report by MPs says. Gary Streeter MP, chair of Christians in Parliament, said: “there is an obsession about equality and political correctness that can hamper those doing the most to tackle inequality.” ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:03:27 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>12 Jun 13 Abortion legislation &quot;a radical change&quot; in Irish law, say bishops</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Government's abortion legislation represents “a radical change” in Irish law by allowing for the first time “the deliberate and intentional killing of an unborn child” the Catholic bishops of Ireland. In a strongly worded statement, they also accused the Government of misleading voters with claims that they had to legalise abortion because of European Court of Human Rights ruling in 2010. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:15:55 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>12 Jun 13 Morning After Pill to be available in US without prescriptions to girls of any age </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ President Barack Obama has dropped his administration's legal challenges to a ruling which permits girls of any age accessing the controversial Plan B morning after pill over the counter and without a perscription. The Department of Justice will no longer appeal the ruling by Judge Edward Korman of the District Court of Eastern New York that overturned Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ decision to keep the age limit of 17 on obtaining Plan B without a prescription. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:10:31 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>11 Jun 13 Work in the home undervalued by society-and the State</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ According to a survey in the Irish Times, fully 43pc of women feel that society values women who are in paid employment over women who work in the home. A piece in today's Irish Times nicely captures that sense of being undervalued. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:20:30 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>11 Jun 13 Nearly half of Irish women feel work in the home not equally valued: poll</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Nearly half of Irish women feel that society does not value women who work in the home equally with women who do paid work, according to a new survey. The poll, carried out by Ipsos/MORI on behalf of the Irish Times, found that 43pc of women felt that Irish society valued women who work outside the home more than homemakers. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:40:49 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>11 Jun 13 Australian man wins right to be recognised as &quot;sexless&quot;</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A man in Australia who claims to be neither a man nor a woman has been officially recognised by Australian authorities as ‘sexless’ on his birth certificate. Norrie May-Welby, a British expat, was born a man but had a sex change operation in 1990 when he was 28. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:29:28 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>10 Jun 13 Irish Government prepares another assault on the rights of children</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Irish Government seems intent on denying the importance of the biological tie between parent and child. Ultimately this is an attack on the right of a child to know and be raised, where possible, by their natural parents. It is becoming increasingly clear that the Government plans to introduce surrogacy legislation which will deny this right.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:02:14 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>08 Jun 13 Refusal of abortion Bill to protect conscience rights is ‘totalitarian’</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Government's proposed abortion Bill is “totalitarian” because of its failure to adequately protect the right to conscientious objection, the Conference of Religious in Ireland (CORI) has said. It said that the conscience rights of both medical professionals and legislators must be acknowledged by the Government in the drafting of the legislation and in the debate surrounding it.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:58:32 +0100</pubDate>
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