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Christian Concern brings you cutting edge stories week by week, to equip the church to act and pray, to restore the hope of Christ to the centre of our nation. Please visit our website at: www.christianconcern.com In this edition: Right to Know campaign - Contact your MP now   This week's top stories

Right to Know Campaign – Act Now A parliamentary debate on the need for independent abortion counselling is expected to be held on Tuesday 6th September. Earlier this week, Prime Minister David Cameron and Health Secretary Andrew Lansley indicated that they supported the idea of independent counselling. However, they appear to have buckled under pressure from the pro-abortion lobby and are no longer backing the amendment laid by Nadine Dorries and Frank Field to facilitate this. This is the moment to act. We need to make the Government and MPs aware of how important this issue is and the level of public support for the amendment. Please e-mail your MP, let them know about the debate and urge them to vote in favour of the amendment. E-mail Your MP > Please also e-mail Prime Minister David Cameron at camerond@parliament.uk and Health Secretary Andrew Lansley at lansleya@parliament.uk The amendment is being backed by the Right to Know Campaign, supported by Christian Concern. There has been a huge amount of media coverage on this vital issue. Here is a top selection with further stories below: Right to Know: Survey Reveals Overwhelming Parliamentary Support for Independent Abortion Counselling Christian Concern:  Plan to offer women independent advice on abortion Daily Telegraph: Abortion rules to be tightened in biggest shake-up for a generation Christian Medical Comment: Amendment giving women option of independent abortion counselling is a step in the right direction Daily Mail: MPs backing move 'to cut abortion toll by 60,000' in biggest shake-up for 20 years Respond to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) Consultation As previously noted, the EHRC announced that it would no longer promote the principle of ‘reasonable accommodation' for religious conscience when intervening in four religious liberty cases before the European Court of Human Rights. The EHRC is running a consultation which ends on 5 September, seeking people’s views on their intervention in the European cases. It is vital that the EHRC is made aware of the strength of the voice of the Christian community and how many of us want to see Christian freedoms protected. Please respond to the consultation here. The consultation is technical and we suggest you simply tell the EHRC that: You support Christian Concern’s response. Reasonable accommodation should be made for Christian conscience in the public sphere. You are dismayed that the EHRC consistently intervenes against the right to manifest Christian beliefs. You would like to see them take a more robust role in defending Christian freedoms. You can view Christian Concern’s response here for further details. Abortion raises risk of mental health problems by 81% Researchers behind a new study on abortion have discovered that women who have abortions experience an astonishing 81% increase in the risk of mental health problems. Published in the prestigious British Journal of Psychiatry, the ground breaking paper also found that almost 10% of all mental health problems are shown to be directly linked to abortion. Read the full story here.

Abortion Independent Counselling Conservative Home:92% of MPs support the principle behind the Dorries/Field campaign for independent abortion counselling Daily Telegraph: Abortion is about money as well as morals Daily Mail: Hate mail, death threats and why pro-abortion zealots won't stop me trying to help women when they need it most Daily Telegraph: The pregnant pause Daily Telegraph (comment): David Cameron is wrong about abortion counselling. He should have supported Nadine Dorries's plan Huffington post: Abortion: The case for independent counselling Christian Medical Fellowship: Make Bias History – a call to support moves for independent abortion counselling BBC News: David Cameron ‘won’t back abortion advice change’ Cranmer blog: The muddled and murky Mensch amendment Christian Medical Comment: Evan Harris outwits David Cameron in abortion about face to appease powerful pro-abortion lobby Daily Telegraph: Tim Stanley: A beginner's guide to banning abortion, from the USA Mental Health Risk Christian Concern: Study finds abortion raises risk of mental health problems by 81% Daily Telegraph: Abortion increases risk of mental health problems, new research finds Christian Medical Fellowship Blog: Abortion and mental health – strongest evidence yet of a link Daily Mail: Women who have abortions 'face double the risk of mental health problems' Christian Medical Comment: Abortion raises risk of mental health problems by 81% says major new review The Times of India: Abortion ups risk of mental health problems Social Christian Concern: More children being treated for sexually transmitted diseases Daily Mail: Boy, aged ELEVEN, treated for chlamydia as 1,000 under-16s seek help for sexual diseases LifeSiteNews: ‘Sex box’ for Swiss kindergarteners has genitalia toys: will teach sexuality is pleasurable Daily Mail: Teacher who led double life as stripper and porn star named Johnny Anglais told: 'You CAN carry on working in the class-room' LifeSiteNews: Reaction to 15-year-old paedophile: ‘We’re breeding inhuman men’ Daily Mail: Couples who live together before they marry are much more likely to divorce, says Christian think-tank Daily Mail: Fake breasts and bottom padding for FOUR-year-old beauty queen Good News! Christian Today: Soul Survivor and Momentum bring 1,500 to Christ Religious Freedom Brighton Argus: MP calls for churches to be stripped of licences for refusing to marry homosexuals California Catholic Daily: "Religious liberty's days are numbered" Baptist Press: No clergy at 9/11 ceremony called ‘bigotry’ Sexual Orientation Daily Mail: It's supposed to be sci-fi, not sex-fi: Hundreds of viewers complain to BBC over 'pointless' gay scenes in Torchwood Daily Record: Reverend stuns kirk by marrying lesbian lover LifeSiteNews: Sexual anarchy: The Kinsey legacy LifeSiteNews: Homosexual students automatically eligible for scholarship: Elmhurst college End of Life Daily Mail: Legalise assisted suicide for terminally ill, says government adviser Christian Medical Comment: Morphine kills the pain, not the patient but some people still just don’t get it Christian Medical Comment: Tragic story of Sophie Tyler demonstrates triumph of hope over adversity Islam Lohud.com: Police arrest 15 at Playland in dispute over Muslim headwear Christian Today: Christian group urges Nepal not to outlaw conversion British Pakistani Christian Association: Sohail Nathaniel - Another man Killed in Lawless Karachi International Persecution Barnabas Fund: Christian refugees from Burma protest against persecution CBN News: Sudan Christians Suffering Ethnic Cleansing Barnabas Fund: Christians in India fear growing threat from Hindu extremists Nigerian Mail Online: 20 killed in fresh Jos violence Events GDOP night of prayer – London   Date: 7th September Time: 7pm – 10pm Venue: Emmanuel Centre 9-23 Marsham Street Westminster London SW1P 3DW   Visit the event website here.   Andrea @ Open Heaven women’s conference – Derbyshire   Date: 10th September Time: 10am – 7pm Venue: The Junction 28 Church South Normanton Alfreton, Derbyshire DE55 2EP   More events