News Bulletin 22 July 2011

The Home Office has said it will assess whether the law should be re-worded by removing the word ‘insulting’ from Section 5 of the Public Order Act — A cross-party group of MPs have welcomed the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s statement that courts should have done more to protect Christians affected by new equality laws — TV soap Emmerdale is now taking a more realistic view on assisted suicide according to Dr Peter Saunders — A mother’s application to end the life of her paralysed daughter is being heard by the Court of Protection as the woman has a degree of consciousness — A survey of medical students revealed that nearly half object to late term abortion of disabled babies — A grandmother who complained to the council about it’s bin collection service was furious when she received a questionnaire which asked if she was a lesbian — And this week celebrated the anniversary of an impassioned letter from John Newton to his friend William Wilberforce encouraging him to stay in politics.