13 Nov

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The government has announced that the teaching of sex education will be compulsory from age five onwards in state schools in England [Department for Children, Schools and Families, 5 November] http://is.gd/4UdTl Paul Tully, SPUC general secretary, commented: "We condemn this exploitation of the state-controlled school system by the government to deliver its anti-life policies to children, by-passing parental involvement." [SPUC, 5 November] http://is.gd/4NPXj The government has signaled that such education will include teaching children about abortion, contraception and homosexuality [SPUC, 11 November]

SPUC Pro-Life has called for an apparent double suicide case to be investigated. The BBC reported the deaths of Dennis and Flora Milner of Newbury, Berkshire and their alleged suicide note. [BBC, 3 November] http://is.gd/4MbRU Paul Tully, SPUC Pro-Life's general secretary, commented: "The police should investigate the circumstances of this couple's apparent suicide to establish whether any other person was involved in the deaths. [SPUC Pro-Life, 3 November] http://is.gd/4Mcr7

Official figures suggest that there has been a slight increase in abortion in Northern Ireland. 92 women had abortions in 2008, whereas 79 women had abortions in 2007. [BBC, 10 November] http://is.gd/4Ueqd Liam Gibson of SPUC Northern Ireland commented: "Even a slight increase in the number of abortions is a matter of grave concern since every abortion means the death of a child." [SPUC, 10 November] http://is.gd/4RUIg

Other stories

Abortion

• Department of health appeals against ruling on disability abortion stats [ProLife Alliance, 12 November] http://is.gd/4UeEm
• Chinese women with abortion experience 17% increased breast cancer risk [LifeSiteNews.com, 12 November] http://is.gd/4Uf3F
• Colombian council suspends court decree forcing Catholic hospitals to provide abortions [LifeSiteNews.com, 11 November] http://is.gd/4UfzI
• International pro-life congress calls abortion "mega genocide" [Pat Buckley, 9 November] http://is.gd/4Ug8U
• Pro-abortion conference gets rough ride in pro-life Ireland [John Smeaton, 7 November] http://is.gd/4UgiS

Population

• Chief Rabbi speaks out about threat of European depopulation [Fr Timothy Finigan, 11 November] http://is.gd/4UfL9

Euthanasia and assisted suicide; disability

• Father drops right-to-life fight in Baby RB case [BBC, 10 November] http://is.gd/4Ufs8
• Euthanasia bill defeated in Australian state of Tasmania [ABC, 5 November] http://is.gd/4UeJd
• University debate exposed the euthanasia lobby's duplicity [John Smeaton, 4 November] http://is.gd/4N9KK

Marriage and family; sexual ethics

• Call for Irish to oppose government bill legalising same-sex unions [Pat Buckley, 11 November] http://is.gd/4UgbR
• Pro-family amendment passed by British parliament [John Smeaton, 12 November] http://is.gd/4TxUB
• Former gay youth leader re-emerges to tell conversion story [LifeSiteNews.com, 12 November] http://is.gd/4UeTL
• Scottish gay rights activists found guilty of paedophilia sentenced to life imprisonment [LifeSiteNews.com, 3 November] http://is.gd/4UeMh

General and miscellaneous

• Third world war on unborn children and on parents as primary educators [John Smeaton, 8 November] http://is.gd/4Ugmi