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How abortion activists are using Nicola Packer to push for more extreme laws
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How abortion activists are using Nicola Packer to push for more extreme laws

Nicola Packer was recently found not guilty of having an illegal abortion. In England and Wales, it’s against the law for women to have a DIY home abortion using tablets after ten weeks, and Packer had been accused of knowingly taking abortion pills at home well after that. Marie Stopes International, which provided her with the abortion pills following a remote consultation, told her she was less than ten weeks along, when in fact she was 26 weeks pregnant.

A ‘praiseworthy landmark’ as the Council of Nicaea marks its 1,700th anniversary
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A ‘praiseworthy landmark’ as the Council of Nicaea marks its 1,700th anniversary

The Council of Nicaea in the year 325 was, arguably, the most theologically significant and influential gathering of Christians in post-apostolic church history. Martin Luther called it ‘the best and first general synod after that held by the holy apostles’. It produced a creed which, in the revised form sanctioned by the Council of Constantinople in the year 381, was soon being recited in all the churches as an act of worship. In many traditions it is still recited today.