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Antony Lempert

@Seculant

Welsh Borders Rural GP & chair of Secular Medical Forum (SMF) of National Secular Society (NSS). Wild swimming and wilder singing. All tweets my own etc.

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Joined July 2010
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@Stephenmevans1Aug 23
Vicars and priests who are told about child sex abuse during confession will be exempt from new “mandatory reporting” laws. Make it make sense. I’m quoted for @NatSecSoc in today’s Telegraph. telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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Our council member Dr Antony Lempert writes for charity @15__Square on the latest tragic death of an infant following ritual circumcision - and the calls for urgent legal reform. @Seculant 15square.org.uk/circumcision…
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#Secularism2025 May also saw us join calls for legal reform around ritual circumcision after a second man was prosecuted for severe harm to children. You can re-read the blog by @Seculant below: secularism.org.uk/opinion/20…
Time to end the absurd anomaly of ritual child circumcision

Time to end the absurd anomaly of ritual child circumcision

Two men have been convicted for performing dangerous and medically unnecessary circumcisions on male babies and children this year. This must prompt a rethink of circumcision which prioritises...

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Images from protests in Germany and England today calling for the release of Moroccan feminist and human rights defender Ibtissame Betty Lachgar, jailed for peaceful expression. Blasphemy is not a crime. #HumanRightsDay #FreeBetty secularism.org.uk/news/2025/…
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"It's time for legislators to take action. They must not be deterred by fears of offending religious sensibilities or baseless allegations of 'Islamophobia'." secularism.org.uk/news/2024/…
Ex-doctor pleads guilty to ritual circumcision child cruelty

Ex-doctor pleads guilty to ritual circumcision child cruelty

Mohammad Siddiqui "meted out painful cruelty to children leaving them with emotional and physical scars."

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We’re quoted in Sunday @Telegraph on two Islamic charities which hosted misogynistic messages. It’s outrageous that a charity has promoted the idea that it’s ok to hit a woman who refuses sex. @DominicPenna
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62% of Brits would support a law prohibiting the #circumcision of children for non-medical reasons. Are you one of the 62%? Join our campaign 👇 secularism.org.uk/religious-…
End forced genital cutting

End forced genital cutting

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This really really is the chance to #VoteGreen to get Green. We have common sense, well costed policies to help people and planet.
Eastern Daily Press (@EDP24) profile pictureEastern Daily Press@EDP2412 Jun 2024
Adrian Ramsay, the Green candidate in Waveney Valley, says the General Election is an 'amazing opportunity' for his party. edp24.co.uk/news/24379149.gr… 👇 Full story
The Greens’ great hope… why party is pinning hopes on traditional Tory territory

The Greens’ great hope… why party is pinning hopes on traditional Tory territory

Adrian Ramsay, the Green candidate in Waveney Valley, says the General Election is an 'amazing opportunity' for his party.

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Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski8 Jun 2024
Just spoke to @Matthew_Wright on LBC about the TV debate last night. Polling consistently shows @TheGreenParty policies are most liked of all - people just don't hear from us enough. Amazing to see the response when a diversity of voices was actually given chance to debate!
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No child should be subjected to the forced surgical removal of any part of their genitalia for non-medical reasons. Why is this such a difficult proposition? secularism.org.uk/religious-…
End forced genital cutting

End forced genital cutting

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❝Religion should not be a roadblock to child safeguarding in healthcare. Circumcision is painful, perilous and permanent. It raises serious ethical questions.❞ secularism.org.uk/opinion/20… journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… @NatSecSoc @Seculant
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Neena Jha@DrNeenaJha5 Jan 2024
SALARY FACTS: MPs vs junior Doctors 2008:  MPs – £61,820 1st year doctors – £28,274 2016: MPs – £74,962 1st year doctors – **£32,398 2023: MPs – £86,584 1st year doctors – **£32,398 And the government have the AUDACITY to call junior doctors greedy?!
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The full paper – 'Roadblocks to reforming UK guidelines on medically unnecessary penile circumcision' – is open access and well worth a read. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epu…
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A new paper published by the Clinical Ethics Journal exposes the ethical and safeguarding contradictions from UK medical bodies when it comes to religiously motivated circumcision of male infants. Read a brief summary from the author, @Seculant, here👇 secularism.org.uk/opinion/20…
Religion should not be a roadblock to child safeguarding in healthcare

Religion should not be a roadblock to child safeguarding in healthcare

A new paper highlights barriers to reforming guidance on non-therapeutic circumcision. The author, Dr Antony Lempert, explains why religion is one of the biggest barriers of all.

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A new paper highlights barriers to reforming guidance on non-therapeutic #circumcision. Author @Seculant explains why religion is one of the biggest barriers of all👇 secularism.org.uk/opinion/20…

Religion should not be a roadblock to child safeguarding in healthcare

A new paper highlights barriers to reforming guidance on non-therapeutic circumcision. The author, Dr Antony Lempert, explains why religion is one of the biggest barriers of all.

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GreenJJNews@GreenJJNews30 Dec 2023
List your speech of the year. I'll start @GreenJennyJones "What do you call a government that..."
kerry ✊💙Dont let Farage kill our NHS (@hewitson10) profile picturekerry ✊💙Dont let Farage kill our NHS@hewitson109 Mar 2023
Baroness Jenny Jones in the House of Lords calling out fascism & dictatorship This is when the HOL is amazing, this is when they represent us, this is when they earn their titles 🔥🔥 Thank you for standing up to fascism @GreenJJNews 👏 #ToryFascists
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In HoL we have been fighting against the #IllegalMigrationBill and its cruelty towards children.
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➡️Read the letter to the editor in The Times from @AlfDubs and other former child refugees on the Kindertransport. thetimes.co.uk/article/times…
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A really important article which highlights the main issue with the country today Power of the right wing press - true even in a digital age. Should retweet the hell out of this - it is the number one enemy #ToriesOut326 #SunakOut217 #GeneralElectionNow bylinetimes.com/2023/05/18/i…
‘It’s Not the Economy, Stupid. It’s the Press’

‘It’s Not the Economy, Stupid. It’s the Press’

The right-wing papers have trashed the country and they mean to go on doing so whoever wins the next election. We must stop them, writes Brian Cathcart 

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“The internal investigation” Church Times cartoonist nails it
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Rich Felgate@richfelgate7 May 2023
Yesterday I got arrested whilst filming a @JustStop_Oil supporter holding a banner on the pavement near the coronation route. I'm a filmmaker and had my @BECTU press accreditation visible around my neck. Police deemed this to be "conspiracy to commit a public nuisance".
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