It's being described as a "huge" pro-life victory in the UK: the Government has agreed to delete their clauses on Personal, Social Health and Economic education (PSHE) contained in their Children, Schools and Families Bill.
According to SPUC it means the bill no longer has clauses which would make sex and relationships education compulsory from 5 to 16 years and that government-backed resources for teaching primary school children. It also means faith schools won't now have to tell pupils how to acquire contraception or how to have abortions.
The danger was that the bill could have been rushed through parliament in the "wash up" legislative period before an election. Instead, it's been thrown out.
Credit goes to the many pro-life organisations, Catholic teachers and others who campaigned against the bill.
Most bishops were conspicuously silent about it, perhaps because they always knew it would be scrapped in the "wash up". I think it's the power of prayer myself.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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