12 July 2010

News,

Defeat of sex ed amendment welcome but further threat looms large.

Last week the House of Lords rejected an amendment to the government's Academies bill by Baronness Massey, which would have made sex education compulsory in academies. SPUC has warned that similar amendments will be tabled to the forthcoming Education and Childrens bill. [John Smeaton, 8 July] http://bit.ly/cShAbt

Archbishop says Catholics who co-operate with abortion are excommunicated.

Robert Carlson, Catholic archbishop of St. Louis, America, has written that one cannot be a good Catholic and pro-abortion. He said that formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offence and that the Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. [LifeSiteNews.com, 8 July] http://bit.ly/bP66vI

Scottish doctors back proposals to give contraceptive injections to 13-year olds.

The Scottish government's family planning body has issued guidance stating that girls as young as 13 should be given contraceptive jabs. Scottish medical experts have backed the plans. A spokesman for the Catholic Church said it was deeply sad that children were being treated like commodities and prepared for use as sexual commodities through the use of long-term contraceptives. [Scottish Express, 12 July] http://bit.ly/9IrTXA

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12 July 2010

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