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Issues surrounding sexual behaviour and morals raise many questions for all Christians. For doctors there are additional issues relating to how they advise and treat their patients.
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Fertility and gender (triple helix - winter 2011)
Issues in reproductive and sexual ethics Edited by Helen Watt Oxford - Anscombe Bioethics Centre 2011-08-27 £15.95 Pb 220pp ISBN 978 0 906561 12 6 - This book contains the proceedings of an international conference 'Fertility, Infertility and Gender' held in Maynooth, Ireland in 2010 by the Linacre...
you're teaching my child what? (triple helix - summer 2011)
Miriam Grossman - Regnery 2009 - £16.99 Hb 243 pp - ISBN 978 1 59698 554 4 - - With children as young as seven being taught in class that touching their clitoris or penis gives them a nice feeling without warning that such touching can be inappropriate (or even constitute sexual abuse depending on...
Submission from Christian Medical Fellowship to The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence on revising their 2007 Guidance on Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections and Under-18 Conceptions - 7/2/2011
Between 24 January and 7 February, NICE ran an online consultation for stakeholders on reviewing the official 50-page 2007 guidance , a comprehensive and in itself well-written review in the formal language of epidemiology of the evidence base for the detailed 2007 advice. The guidance was due for routine review, and the consultation was an...More quangos for the bonfire? (triple helix - winter 2010)
Time for some truly independent advisors - Among the quangos due for dissolution are the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group (TPIAG) and the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV (IAGSH). Since TPIAG was set up in 1998 to halve the national under-18 conception rate by 2010,...
BMA update on ARM homosexuality debate
28/7/2010
Three weeks after the BMA ARM, BMA News (Saturday July 24 2010, p8) carried a letter about the homosexuality debate on Motion 460. There was an interesting response from the BMA ethics department: No role for gay cures in NHS The fact that so many doctors at the BMA annual representative meeting did not back a call for the Royal College of...
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BMA ARM ethics debate - report
1/7/2010
BMA ARM 2010 – Ethics Debate 1 July The ethics debate on the last morning of the BMA's 2010 Annual Representative Meeting began 8 minutes behind time, but then ran for 54 minutes instead of the planned 40. Well chaired as always by Peter Bennie, business was disciplined and conducted calmly. Tony Calland, Chair of the Medical Ethics Committee,...
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16 year-old to become Britain's youngest sex-change patient (nucleus - spring 2010)
Bradley Cooper from East Yorkshire has become the youngest person to be accepted for an NHS sex-change operation in Britain. 'People might think I'm too young to make such a huge decision but I know my own mind and this is what I want.' The trainee hairdresser, who calls himself 'Ria', has...
Teaching abstinence works: children delay first intercourse
2/2/2010
(published: Daily Telegraph)
http:// http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7127838/Teaching-abstinence-makes-children-delay-first-sexual-intercourse-research.html
Just sex - is it ever just sex? (triple helix - winter 2009)
- Guy Brandon IVP 2009 - £9.99 - Pb 224pp - ISBN 978 1 84474 371 1 - - This is vital stuff' says Romance Academy director, Rachel Gardner, in her foreword and so it is. As the author, a theologian at Cambridge's Jubilee Centre, clearly recognises, it is also a book many readers may consider...
Controversial sex education to be statutory from age 5
12/11/2009
On 11 November the government accepted all the major recommendations of the 2007/08 report by the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group. In a written ministerial statement, the Department for Children, Schools and Families said: 'The Government has taken forward all the major recommendations including making sex and relationships education...
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