Sturgeon confirms Scottish talks on free abortions for Northern Irish women

Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that the Scottish government is to explore how to allow Northern Irish women to obtain free access to abortions in Scotland’s NHS hospitals.

Scotland’s first minister, during a visit to Dublin on Tuesday, said that the Edinburgh devolved government would hold talks with the Scottish NHS that may enable women from Northern Ireland to have terminations for free on the health service.

Across the UK, the NHS has so far refused to pay for abortions for women from Northern Ireland who travel to Britain. The procedure is only available in Northern Ireland’s hospitals when the pregnancy poses a direct threat to the mother’s life. It is illegal in all other cases.

Last week. Patrick Harvie MSP, the leader of the Green party in the Scottish parliament, said it can cost between £400 and £2,000 for a woman from Northern Ireland to obtain an abortion at a private clinic in Britain.

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Thousands of Nigerian fisherman sue Shell for destroying their communities

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Pope Francis cements priests' power to forgive abortion

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‘Please, I am out of options’: inside the murky world of DIY abortions

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How Gypsies have moved from fortune-telling to fervent Christianity

'At a time when large numbers of people are drifting away from formal religion, one church is bucking the trend. Huge numbers of Gypsies and travellers in England now say they've joined a new movement called Light and Life. Those who join have given up drinking alcohol and fortune-telling, and many have even abandoned their traditional Catholic faith.

It's centred on charismatic preaching, praying in tongues and miracle healing.'

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The Lord's Prayer!

'If somebody said, give me a summary of Christian faith on the back of an envelope, the best thing to do would be to write Our Lord's Prayer.'

NEW GCSE requires greater knowledge of thrilling stuff like prayer, here we have a previous Archbishop of Canterbury explaining, in some depth, the Lord's prayer and how it influences individuals, communities and societies.  If you learn some or all of this prayer you can drop bits of it into answers all over the place, so it's a useful way of learning quite a few teachings at once.

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'Desperate' Afghan children go on hunger strike in France in bid to rejoin families in UK

Hunger strike is a form of non-violent protest, used by Aung San Suu Kyi, links to Martin Luther King's non-violent protests and whatnot.


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They've opened Jesus' tomb!

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Britain is now the second biggest arms dealer in the world

If you need to add a positive evaluation of war to an answer, use the fact that we make so much money out of it.

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Gay Cake

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Are cups and burger wrappers at In-N-Out Burger inscribed with Bible verses?

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I spent 28 years on death row

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Woman who imported 'euthanasia kit' took her own life, rules inquest

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The label ‘incurable’ is not a justification for ending a life

The rising number of people with severe mental health problems in the Netherlands who are ending their lives under Dutch euthanasia laws is deeply disturbing

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New mother, 62, sends 'message of hope'

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Is testing on primates still needed?

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Textbooks for NEW GCSE

It would be good if you had your own copy of the textbook for the GCSE course, you can purchase it via Amazon by clicking the link below:


THIS IS THE OFFICIAL TEXTBOOK PRODUCED BY THE EXAM BOARD

THIS IS ANOTHER TEXTBOOK THAT IS ALSO VERY GOOD

REMEMBER, YOU ARE ONLY STUDYING CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM, YOU DO NOT NEED TO LEARN ABOUT THE OTHER RELIGIONS COVERED IN THESE BOOKS.