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Friday, 14 February 2025

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Leadbeater criticised for removing ‘ultimate safeguard’ from her assisted suicide Bill

Support for Kim Leadbeater’s dangerous assisted suicide Bill is eroding, after she scrapped a measure she had repeatedly described as the ‘ultimate safeguard’.

Also see:

Assisted suicide Bill: 10 key moments from day 1 of Committee scrutiny

Assisted suicide Bill: What we learnt from day 2 scrutiny

Whitty admits getting it wrong on capacity to choose assisted suicide

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Almost 3,500 women sent for ‘sex-swap’ mastectomies on NHS in three years

Thousands of gender-confused young women have been referred for mastectomies on the NHS, it has been reported.

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Australia launches review of puberty blockers for gender-confused kids

Judges told to ditch ‘preferred pronouns’

Police: ‘Pro-lifer standing near abortion centre is harassment’

Pro-life campaigner Isabel Vaughan-Spruce has been told by police that her “mere presence” near an abortion centre is causing harassment.

Attempt to give parents freedom to see teaching materials rejected by Labour

Labour has rejected an attempt to give parents in England a legal right to see what their children are being taught in school.

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School ‘sex survey’ data sharing put on pause

Media watchdog accused of peddling pro-LGBT bias

Westminster has ‘no plans’ to criminalise parents who smack

The Government has confirmed that it does not currently plan to criminalise parents who lightly smack their children in England.

Labour MP: ‘Gender-critical groups behind conversion practices’

An MP has made the extraordinary claim that people who believe in biological reality surrounding sex and gender are responsible for so called ‘conversion practices’.

Second footballer suspended for asking if her opponents were male

A second female teenager has received a six-match ban for asking if her opponents were men.

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British and Irish political leaders urged to follow Trump’s lead and ‘keep men out of women’s sports’

Lidl pushes to extend Sunday trading hours in NI

Supermarket giant Lidl is petitioning a council in Northern Ireland to allow its stores to open for longer on Sundays.

Long-running US legal case over ‘cash for baby parts’ exposé is at an end

Legal action against two investigative journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood’s apparent trafficking of body parts from aborted babies has ended.

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Thousands demand end to ‘dangerous’ abortion pills-by-post scheme

Christian school worker vindicated at Court of Appeal

The dismissal of a Christian teaching assistant for sharing her concerns about extreme sex ed materials in her son’s school was unlawful, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

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