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MPs have voted 379 to 137 to back an amendment to take abortion out of English and Welsh criminal law for women in relation to their own pregnancies. Humanists UK has long been alarmed about the growing number of women facing police investigations for this. Today it has expressed delight at MPs standing up for… Read more »
Humanists UK’s Chief Executive Andrew Copson has been awarded an OBE for ‘services to the non-religious’ in the UK national honours announced today. This is the first time an award has been made for services to the non-religious, who now represent a majority of the UK’s population. Andrew Copson has worked for Humanists UK since… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Drug users can recover quicker if they do not have to face stigmatising terms like ‘junkie’ and ‘addict’, a leading drug thinktank has warned. The UK Drugs Policy Commission study, ‘Sinning and Sinned Against: The Stigmatisation of Problem Drug Users’, found much of the media’s coverage of drug addiction to be unhelpful… Read more »
By Ian Dunt The government will slap 12-month temporary bans on new substances as they emerge, the minister for crime prevention confirmed today. The plans, which had been proposed by home secretary Theresa May, will be put in legislation allowing for a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison and an unlimited fine for suppliers… Read more »
