Foetal pain felt far earlier than was previously thought
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Research reported in January suggested that an unborn baby can feel pain from well before the time it was previously thought, maybe from as young as 12 weeks.
Published in the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics, it was carried out by two researchers, one pro-life and the other pro-abortion, making it unique in this respect.
A step in the right direction?
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In what could mark the start of a return to sensible thinking on transgender issues, action is being brought against the Portman NHS Trust over its use of puberty blockers on children, it was reported in November.
The use of blockers has scant research behind it, but increasing numbers of children are being prescribed the medication which is only licensed for precocious onset of puberty. Indeed, research undertaken by the NHS’ own gender clinic, GIDS, has shown there is a significant increase in children trying to hurt or kill themselves when they are prescribed such medication. ‘Increase in use of (en September 2019 puberty blockers to be investigated.’)
Oracle chickens out
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A Reading shopping centre, part-owned
by an investment company based in Abu
Dhabi, caved in to LGBT demands to drop
a US
fast-food restaurant
from renting
premises, it was reported in October.
Owners of the Oracle centre in Reading
will not renew Chic-fil-A’s six-month lease,
claiming it is the ‘right thing to do’. In 2012
the
restaurant’s CEO, Dan Cathy,
stated
that
the company supported
the
‘biblical
definition of the
family unit’. It donated
money to Christian charities that support traditional marriage.