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Last update: Wednesday 25th March




Google has bowed to pressure from American ‘pro-choice’ group NARAL by agreeing to ban advertisements for crisis pregnancy centres that educate women on the alternative options to abortion, it was reported in early May. NARAL campaigned extensively to force Google to remove advertisements for pro-life pregnancy services after complaining that the adverts appeared 79% of the time when users entered the search terms ‘abortion clinics’.
Social Issues	Evangelicals Now, June 2014



George Osborne appears to have admitted defeat on the Tory pledge to bring annual net migration below 100,000 by the General Election next year. The Chancellor said progress had been made on reducing numbers, but suggested Britain’s relationship with the EU would need to be negotiated after May 2015 to deliver David Cameron’s promise. He also warned that border controls will be loosened again if Labour returns to government. Official figures showed net migration – the number coming to the UK for at least a year, minus the numbers leaving – rose 58,000 to 212,000 in the year to September 2013.
Social Issues	The Sentinel, June 2, 2014



In late March it was reported that stillborn and miscarried babies have been used to provide heat for hospitals, or been incinerated with medical waste. The Chief Medical Officer has written to hospitals noting that current guidance is clear that this should not be taking place. Over 15,000 human remains have been incinerated over the past two years.
Social Issues	Evangelicals Now, May 2014



Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat justice minister, said in early March that the traditional Christian wedding ceremony should no longer have legal status. Couples who want to marry in church would have to undertake two separate ceremonies (the civil one taking place as part of the church wedding) in order for their marriage to be recognised by the state.
Social Issues	Evangelicals Now, May 2014



Home Secretary Theresa May said coalition rows were holding back efforts to cut immigration as she indicated further curbs were under discussion. Deporting EU nationals who are not working and halving the length of time others can claim benefits are among proposals on the table, she said.
Social Issues	The Sentinel, May 26, 2014



A pan-African leadership initiative in Ghana has issued a resounding call to fight corruption among governments and multi-national corporations. Leaders at the African Biblical Leadership Initiative (ABLI) – including a representative of the President of Ghana – signed a declaration calling on the G20 to ‘take a stand against greed, secret deals and the abuse of public influence’.
Social Issues	Bible Society - 23rd May 2014



A ‘substantial’ number of eastern European migrants arriving in Britain in the last decade were not counted. Net migration in the UK between 2001 and 2011 was 346,000 higher than previously thought as a result of ‘inadequate sampling’ of arrivals into the country, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Arrivals were not counted in part because an official survey focused on major airports, such as London Heathrow, London Gatwick and Manchester, while migrants were using an increasing number of regional routes into the country.
Social Issues	The Sentinel, April 11, 2014



In the last eleven years the Street Pastors movement has grown from a local initiative to a movement operating in 250 towns across 7 countries. In that time 9,000 volunteers have been trained to engage with young people on the streets of our city and thousands upon thousands of people have been touched by the work of the Street Pastors.
Social Issues	Together, May-June 2014



In the wake of the recession Britain is becoming a nation of Good Samaritans, according to an international league table. Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development show people in Britain are 24 per cent more likely to go out of their way to help a stranger than the average citizen from the world’s other leading industrial nations. The study also found volunteering is on the increase in the UK.
Social Issues	The Telegraph - 7th May 2014 (republished by Bible Society)



On February 27, the Department of Health launched a consultation on mitochondrial donation technique, the process whereby a child would have ‘three parents’. The consultation seeks views on proposed draft regulations on the use of the new techniques to prevent mothers passing serious mitochondrial diseases to their children and is open until May 21 at 5pm.
Social Issues	Evangelicals Now – April 2014



The Public Health Minister, Jane Ellison MP, said in late February that the Government will publish more detailed guidance shortly which will include a restatement of the Government’s view that abortion on the grounds of gender alone is unlawful.
Social Issues	Evangelicals Now – April 2014



Nearly 100 years after the first woman took her seat in parliament, just over one fifth of our MPs are women. A recent survey of contributors to serious public debate through newspapers, radio and TV found that again just over a fifth of them were women. Women are in the minority in business leadership, and the recession has hit women the hardest with more of them losing their jobs as a result of cuts. Women still earn less than men over 40 years after the Equal Pay Act, with those working full-time earning 85p for every £1 earned by a man.
Social Issues	Liberti – April - June 2014



Draft guidelines published by the Department of Health (DoH) state that doctors will no longer be required to see women who are considering an abortion, raising concerns that the proposals will further undermine protections built into the 1967 Abortion Act. They suggest that nurses may also carry out abortions by administering drugs used for the procedure as long as a doctor ‘decides upon, initiates and takes responsibility throughout the process’.
Social Issues	Evangelicals Now, March 2014



Roman Catholic bishops in England and Wales have discussed whether to stop performing the legal part of wedding ceremonies because of gay marriage legislation, according to media reports. This may be necessary in order to protect Roman Catholic priests from legal action for refusing to perform same-sex weddings. Leading human rights lawyer Aidan O’Neill QC previously highlighted the way the Church of England’s gay marriage exemption is ‘eminently challengeable’ in Europe. This is because the Church has a legal obligation to marry anyone in their local parish.
Social Issues	Protestant Truth, January-February 2014



A new assisted suicide bill has been launched in Scotland, despite the previous attempt having been soundly defeated by MSPs. Margo Macdonald’s new Bill comes as a Europe-wide campaign against euthanasia begins in Brussels. In Brussels the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Europe has warned that in other countries where euthanasia has been legalised, people have been killed who were not terminally ill.
Social Issues	Protestant Truth, January-February 2014

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