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While working at home this afternoon I have had the LibDem Make it Happen Debate on the Parliamentary Channel. I found myself thinking that it was about time Conservative conferences had a few more of these substantive debates. Conferences nowadays have become rallies rather than conferences and far too dominated by presentational requirements. Ordinary party members get too little opportunity to contribute....
Chess4 project DVD with GM Ray Keene OBE, London Times Chess columnist and prolific chess author and GM Nigel Davies. Endorsement by Dr Evan Harris MP for this new Chess training DVD with GM Raymond Keene, GM Nigel Davies and 11 year old champion Emma Bentley. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q2DfkuXBTo Chess news from Susan Polgar
Briefing: very good news. From CFNews: Abortionist MP, Evan Harris, responsible for most of the 'anti-life' and liberalising amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill was voted off the British Medical Association's Ethics Committee this week. This was a strategic and influential position for Evan Harris which he has now lost. And from LifeNews: A new survey finds British doctors oppose...
From this week's Catholic Herald : "Catholic doctors could be stripped of their right to refuse to arrange abortions under proposals to be debated next week. They will no longer be able to conscientiously object to authorising abortions but instead will be compelled to send any woman requesting the procedure directly to an abortion clinic. The proposal has caused immense anger among the growing number...
Briefing. From SPUC: A motion before the British Medical Association's annual meeting would effectively bar doctors with a conscientious objection to abortion from seeing patients with unplanned pregnancies. The move comes from Dr Evan Harris, Liberal Democrat MP and member of the association's medical ethics committee. The Christian Medical Fellowship has published an analysis of the motion and Dr...
Dr Evan Harris and Chris McCafferty have given notice of two amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill , proposing the Amendment of the 1967 Abortion Act . The first clause of the Abortion Act begins: 1. — (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person shall not be guilty of an offence under the law relating to abortion when a pregnancy is terminated by a registered medical...
I have reproduced below Evan Harris' speech on the Female couples and solo female IVF/"need for a father" amendment in the Commons last night- because I think it is brilliant: The Liberal Democrats have a party policy against unjustified discrimination, such as the inclusion of a provision in the Bill for the need for a father. I hope to show that the proposal is discriminatory and unjustified.
I sometimes worry about myself. For about an hour, I've been watching the House of Commons debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill and the amendment on "the need for...a father or male role model" in cases of lesbian couples applying for IVF treatment. It's quite absorbing. The health minister Dawn Primarollo, though spirited, managed to put all her thoughts through a "
Evan Harris from the UK, Monday, had this to say to the press. What, really, the number of abortions tells us is the number of unwanted pregnancies. That's the fundamental issue. And the best way to tackle that, as other countries have shown, is to have much better sexual relationships education than we have and much [...]
A campaign to repeal the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel, which made it illegal to insult Christianity, was proposed in January by the Liberal Democrat Evan Harris. It was supported by public figures including the author Philip Pullman and the academic Richard Dawkins. They claimed the little-used laws served no useful purpose, while allowing religious groups to try to censor artists.
Christian Concern for our Nation (CCFON) has produced four very short head-to-head videos on the four issues in the HFE Bill for which there will be a free vote. They feature the views of Evan Harris MP, who supports the bill, and Dr Peter Saunders, Christian Medical Fellowship General Secretary, who opposes it. Watch the videos HERE. The [...]
Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris, with parliamentary colleagues, at an event in support of the Human Fertility and Embryology Bill, which will protect and extend the right of scientists to perform crucial stem-cell research. More about all this at the Coalition for Choice website.
Excellent news, especially as at present I subscribe to the 'opposite tradition'; that is, I tend to find myself in agreement with Evan Harris. This kind of thing is absolutely essential to healthy debate in the party. I don't know if you have your list of contributors all settled, but if you don't - and you hadn't already - you should consider getting in touch with Martin Tod our PPC for Winchester;...
