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Forcing vaccines on care workers won’t help
Media reports today (16 June 2021) suggest that the UK government is likely to make Covid vaccination…

Maya Forstater wins her appeal – gender-critical beliefs are ‘worthy of respect’
Maya Forstater has today (10 June 2021) won her appeal against the employment tribunal, which ruled that…

‘Don’t bother the midwife’: abortion as a parable for assisted suicide
The current series of Call the Midwife is set in 1966. We dispensed with World Cup fever in about half…

COVAX – Its opportunities and challenges
Early in the pandemic (24 April 2020), long before any manufacturer had a vaccine ready for sale, long…

Can we vaccinate our way out of the pandemic?
Here in the UK, we have been feeling pretty good about ourselves recently, with (at the time of writing)…

Assisted suicide debates are back yet again across the British Isles: it’s time for health professionals’ voices to be heard
Despite the backdrop of COVID-19 and the emphasis on caring for the most vulnerable in society, an old…

‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban: a review of the issues
You may be aware of current controversies around the issue of so-called 'conversion therapy'. But you…

The Impact of Gender Identity ‘Conversion Therapy’
What impact has Gender Identity ‘Conversion Therapy’ (GICT) had on gender diverse people? This is…

DIY abortion: one year on
On this day last year, the UK Government, after a bizarre double-u-turn, made the home an approved…
Plan to sell morning-after pill to teenagers online this Christmas will lead to more sexually transmitted disease
A British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) campaign, launched today, encourages women to stockpile emergency contraceptive pills over the Christmas period. According to the Daily Telegrapha poster for the scheme, featuring the word ‘sex’ in fairy lights, asks: ‘Getting “turned on” this Christmas?’ And a dedicated website for the service is titled, rather bawdily, santacomes.org.Women wanting to […]
BMJ publishes Secular Medical Forum ‘advertorial’
On 30 November the British Medical Journal published an article by Colin Brewer, ‘a director of the Secular Medical Forum’ , titled ‘Secularism needs a distinctive medical voice’. The 900 word one page article, which appeared in the BMJ’s ‘personal view’ column, and claimed to be ‘not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed’, is essentially an […]
Is ‘faith healing’ costing lives?
As we approach yet another World AIDS day, it is worth stopping to reflect where we have got to this year. First the good news – new HIV infections are down, deaths are down, and the number of people on antiretroviral treatment is up. The UN High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York last […]
Tony Nicklinson deserves sympathy but hard cases make bad law
A severely disabled man from Wiltshire is to ask the High Court to allow a doctor to end his life. Tony Nicklinson, 57, is paralysed from the neck down after suffering a stroke in 2005. He cannot speak or move anything except his head and eyes and communicates through nodding his head at letters on […]
MDU warns against doctors providing medical reports to suicidal patients
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) in its latest advice to doctors (MDU Journal, Volume 27 issue 2 November 2011, Page 24) has published a case study to emphasise the point that doctors who supply medical records to patients who are intending to commit suicide could well be prosecuted. In February 2010 the Director of Public […]
The ‘new’ guidelines on abortion from the RCOG
Just as the leopard cannot change its spots, nor does it seem that the RCOG can change its controversial stance with its revised guidelines for the care of women requesting abortion. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) guidance on ‘The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion’ was first published in 2000. An updated […]
Hospital kills ‘wrong’ twin in selective abortion – both babies now dead
Children with special needs can be a great challenge to care for but a tragic story from Australia this week demonstrates that the search for the perfect child can have devastating consequences. Steven Ertelt in Melbourne relates the story on Life Site News. A hospital in Australia is making news for having killed the ‘wrong’ […]
Industrial Action: How should Christians in the NHS respond?
Many Christian nurses and allied health professionals have been asking me how they should act in the face of a mounting industrial dispute. Next Wednesday (30 November), around 100,000 health workers in the UK will join an estimated 2 million other public sector employees in a one day strike in protest about the government’s proposal […]
Spiritually confused care?
Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, recently spoke of the need to remember the spiritual needs of patients in NHS care – and was promptly accused of bringing back medieval exorcism! In the following week, the Royal College of Nursing published a new online training resource to equip nurses in spiritual care, after a survey […]
Adult stem cell research leaps forward whilst embryonic stem cell work slows
It has been an amazing week in the field of stem cell technology with five big stories hitting the news all at once. New doors of therapeutic promise are opening whilst at the same time other doors are slamming shut. I recently highlighted a New Scientist editorial, ‘In praise of stem-cell simplicity’, which gives a […]
Should ‘gay’ Christians be true to their feelings?
Last Wednesday’s Metro (a London newspaper) (p35) ran the story of ‘a burly rugby player’ who ‘suffered a stroke in training and woke up to find he was gay’ (See ‘Different strokes – 19st rugby player now gay hairdresser’) Mr Birch (pictured) was ‘straight’ and engaged to be married when he suffered a freak accident […]
Why legalising assisted suicide inevitably also legalises euthanasia
The Falconer Commission on ‘Assisted Dying’ is about to be put out of its misery when it reports later this month. Having been suggested by Dignity in Dying (formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society), paid for by one of its patrons and stacked full of euthanasia sympathisers by Lord Falconer’s own admission (and also for these reasonsdiscredited by the […]