16-year-olds with anorexia could be granted assisted suicide in Scotland, expert warns
Premature baby who spent over a year in hospital goes home for the first time
77% of respondents to consultation oppose introducing world’s most extreme abortion buffer zone law to Scotland
Campaigners call for MPs to vote down Stella Creasy’s new abortion up to birth amendment
Scotland: Support for assisted suicide on the decline
“Miracle” baby born weighing just 15 ounces now eight months old
A premature baby boy, born at just 22 weeks and three days and who spent 137 days in the neonatal intensive care unit, beat the odds and is now eight months old. Jadeyn Gajeski, baby Henry’s mother, was attending a routine 20-week pregnancy checkup when she found out...
Premature baby girl thriving after spending 247 days in intensive care
A family has shared the moment that their premature baby girl left hospital after an incredible 247 days. After Shelby Rutledge’s waters broke unexpectedly after just 22 weeks and four days of pregnancy, doctors were uncertain about her baby’s chance of survival....
Nearly 90% of babies prenatally diagnosed with Down’s syndrome were aborted in 2021
In 2021, nearly 90% of all babies prenatally diagnosed with Down's syndrome in England and the Crown Dependencies had their lives ended by abortion, according to statistics released by NHS England. Statistics released by NHS England this morning reveal that 87.26% of...
Woman almost dies after ectopic pregnancy, which may have been masked by abortion
A paper published in the Irish Medical Journal has revealed that a woman almost died from an ectopic pregnancy after having a medical abortion. The paper, released on 21 March 2024, reveals that a woman from Limerick had a medical abortion two weeks prior to being...
Amendment to stop abortion to birth for Down’s syndrome tabled by Sir Liam Fox MP
An MP has tabled an amendment that would bring an end to the current situation where abortion is available between 24 weeks and birth for babies with Down’s syndrome. Sir Liam Fox, former GP, cabinet minister and defence secretary, announced his amendment to the...
Premmie baby weighing the same as a loaf of bread celebrates his first birthday
A baby boy born 16 weeks early weighing just 1lb - about the same as a loaf of bread - has just celebrated his first birthday despite doctors giving him just a 25% chance of living. Arley-James Hughes, from Morecambe in Lancashire, was born unexpectedly when his...
Premature baby who spent over a year in hospital goes home for the first time
A premature baby from Florida has gone home from hospital for the first time after spending over a...
Baby born weighing just 3lb 5 oz airlifted to hospital for treatment
A baby boy unexpectedly born three months early and weighing just 3lb 5oz at birth had to be airlifted to hospital. Kayce was unexpectedly born 84 days ahead of his due date and was swiftly airlifted to the hospital for specialist care. He required medical attention...
Oti Mabuse praises NHS team who supported her premmie baby in hospital
Dancing on Ice judge and Strictly Come Dancing winner, Oti Mabuse, has spoken out about her experience of giving birth to a premature baby and the care she received from the NHS. Oti’s daughter arrived two months early and required hospital care for six weeks after...
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Press release – Police protect young female pro-life speaker from screaming pro-abortion mob in Manchester
PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Manchester: Police protect young female pro-life speaker from screaming pro-abortion mob Video footage captures screaming mob hurling abuse and attempting to intimidate female pro-life speaker Higher Education (Freedom of Speech)...
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Foetal Sentience Committee Bill passes Second Reading
We wanted to make contact with more good news. Lord Moylan’s Foetal Sentience Committee Bill has passed its Second Reading in the House of Lords without a division, as is the convention in the Lords, and will now proceed onto Committee Stage. A number of Peers spoke...
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Nearly 90% of babies prenatally diagnosed with Down’s syndrome were aborted in 2021
In 2021, nearly 90% of all babies prenatally diagnosed with Down's syndrome in England and the Crown Dependencies had their lives ended by abortion, according to statistics released by NHS England. Statistics released by NHS England this morning reveal that 87.26% of...
Line of Duty actor wants a superhero with Down’s syndrome on the big screen
Tommy Jessop, an actor with Down’s syndrome known for his role in the prime time BBC drama, Line of Duty, has petitioned Hollywood to make a new superhero film starring an actor with Down's syndrome. A BBC documentary released last month follows brothers Tommy and...
17,731 more lives lost to abortion as abortion campaigners call for abortion up to birth
Abortion statistics released by the Department of Health and Social Care this morning show that 123,219 abortions for residents of England and Wales took place in the six months between 1 January and 30 June 2022. This was an increase of 17,731 abortions (17%) from...
Disability rights activists raise concerns about Commons assisted suicide Committee
A group of disability rights activists are “deeply concerned” that they may not even be asked to give public evidence at the Commons inquiry into assisted suicide. Last month, the Health and Social Care Committee began taking oral evidence on the legalisation of...
World Down Syndrome Day: Mother shares story of having a son with Down’s syndrome, “I cannot begin to imagine our family without him.”
A woman has given an extended interview with the Times in which she explains what life is like for her son who has Down’s syndrome and who happens to be Brentford FC’s biggest fan. Today, 21 March, is World Down Syndrome Day and Natalie O’Rourke has shared her and her...
Politician faces calls to resign after suggesting babies with disabilities should be aborted to save money
A politician in the US. is facing calls to resign after he suggested that children with disabilities should be aborted to save money. During a city council on 7 February, Michael Hugo, a Massachusetts Democrat and the chair of the Framingham Democratic Committee,...
Nearly 90% of babies prenatally diagnosed with Down’s syndrome were aborted in 2021
In 2021, nearly 90% of all babies prenatally diagnosed with Down's syndrome in England and the Crown Dependencies had their lives ended by abortion, according to statistics released by NHS England. Statistics released by NHS England this morning reveal that 87.26% of...
Politician faces calls to resign after suggesting babies with disabilities should be aborted to save money
A politician in the US. is facing calls to resign after he suggested that children with disabilities should be aborted to save money. During a city council on 7 February, Michael Hugo, a Massachusetts Democrat and the chair of the Framingham Democratic Committee,...
Heroine of The Sound of Music refused an abortion
The heroine of The Sound of Music, Maria von Trapp, was told by her doctor to have an abortion because her unborn son was thought to be disabled. Not only did she not have an abortion, but her son was born healthy. The story of the von Trapp family, their musical...
“Absolutely horrendous” – Liam Fox MP speaks out against abortion up to birth for Down’s syndrome
Former UK Defence Secretary, Liam Fox MP, has said that the abortion laws in the UK are “far too liberal” and that abortion up to birth for babies with Down’s syndrome is “absolutely horrendous”. In response to a question in an interview with GB News about...
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Baby born before the abortion limit now a year old and thriving
Baby Isla was born 18 weeks early and given only a 10% chance of survival. A year on, she’s thriving and has just celebrated her first birthday. Lauren Ormston and Oliver Dewey were expecting their first child together in July last year. But their daughter, baby Isla,...
Nadine Dorries MP: Reduce abortion limit from 24 to 20 weeks
The culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, has said the abortion limit in the UK should be lowered from 24 weeks to 20 weeks but also that “any woman who wants an abortion should just be able to have one”. The cabinet minister’s comments were given in a Times Radio...
Record-high number of abortions in 2021
Abortion statistics released by the Department for Health and Social Care yesterday show the highest number of abortions ever recorded in England and Wales, with 214,869 taking place in 2021, an increase of 4,009 from 2020. This significant rise in abortions has...
‘Miracle baby’ born two weeks after the abortion limit
A mum from Harrogate has given birth to her “miracle baby” Ava while on holiday in Lanzarote, just two weeks after the abortion limit in the UK. Hairdresser, Kim Ellis, gave birth to her daughter three months early, at just 26 weeks gestation. Baby Ava weighed just...
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Britney Spears’ sister reveals pressure to have abortion when she was pregnant at 16
Actress, singer and sister of Britney Spears, Jamie Lynn Spears, revealed she experienced pressure to have an abortion when she was pregnant at 16. The 32-year-old contestant on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! told fellow contestants and viewers about her teen...
Ex-Home Office boss imprisoned for spiking woman’s drink with abortion drug
A senior civil servant has been jailed for more than three and a half years after spiking a woman's drink with an abortion drug after she became pregnant with his baby. Darren Burke, 43, former deputy director for the emergency services mobile communications programme...
Pregnant with twins, a teenage mum is sick of people asking why she hasn’t had an abortion
A teenage mum expecting twins has revealed she is sick of people asking her why she hasn’t had an abortion. Posting anonymously on the chat forum Reddit, the young mum said that at one of her parenting classes, she was advised to have an abortion when she was past the...
Baby given 1% chance of survival arrives home after mum refuses to abort
A mother whose waters broke at 19 weeks managed to give birth to her son 11 weeks later and, despite months in hospital, he’s now at home with his family. Baby Chester was born at 30 weeks gestation, weighing only 834g, in the middle of a national COVID-19 lockdown....
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Australian sonographer shocks journalist as she reveals reality of sex-selective abortion
An Australian journalist has written about her shock following a conversation with her sonographer who revealed that some families choose abortion after discovering the sex of their unborn baby. The anonymous writer shared her experience of going for her 20-week...
MPs propose major changes to UK abortion laws
A cross-party group of MPs has come together to introduce three amendments to the Government’s flagship Health and Care Bill that propose major changes to abortion law. These amendments have been tabled for Report Stage of the Bill, which will take place on Monday and...
Armenia’s population could decline by 80,000 due to sex-selective abortions
Professor Tsovinar Harutyunyan, the Assistant Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Armenia, has recently spoken out about the devastating impact of sex-selective abortion on the country’s demographic future. At a recent webinar for the...
Researchers predict 22 million ‘missing’ girls by 2100
A new global modelling of birth rates has estimated that 22 million girls could be ‘missing’ from the global population by 2100. The report, published by leading medical journal ‘BMJ Global Health’, used over three billion birth records from 204 countries. A previous...
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Northern Ireland consultation shows 73% are opposed to sex education covering “access to abortion”
The results of a consultation by the Department of Education in Northern Ireland have revealed that 73% of respondents are opposed to sex education...
UK Supreme Court ignores testimony of women helped by pro-life support outside abortion clinics
A Bill that criminalises offers of help and alternatives to abortion outside abortion clinics in Northern Ireland does not “disproportionately interfere” with the rights of protesters, the Supreme Court has ruled. This week, the UK Supreme Court said the abortion...
UK Supreme Court ignores testimony of women helped by pro-life support outside abortion clinics
A Bill that criminalises offers of help and alternatives to abortion outside abortion clinics in Northern Ireland does not “disproportionately interfere” with the rights of protesters, the Supreme Court has ruled. This week, the UK Supreme Court said the abortion...
Stella Creasy fails to hijack Bill to force more abortion on Northern Ireland
An abortion amendment to a procedural Bill concerning the government of Northern Ireland, which would have committed Westminster to commission abortion services across the region within a certain time frame, has been ruled out of scope. Abortion activist, Stella...
16-year-olds with anorexia could be granted assisted suicide in Scotland, expert warns
Scotland's proposed assisted suicide bill could allow assisted suicide for people with anorexia from as young as 16 years olds, an ethics expert has argued. Professor David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, has argued that the broad definition...
Baby born at 27 weeks now thriving as her MSP father fights to keep neonatal unit open
A Scottish MSP is determined to keep the neonatal unit of his local hospital open after the staff there kept his premature daughter alive. The University Hospital Wishaw in Lanarkshire, Scotland has been named as having the top neonatal unit in the UK. Despite this,...
Scottish Greens to introduce world’s most extreme abortion buffer zone law in Scotland
Scottish Green Party MSP, Gillian Mackay, has published a bill that proposes introducing the most extreme abortion buffer zone laws in the world in Scotland, making it illegal to offer assistance to women seeking an abortion within 200m of an abortion clinic or...
Dignity in Dying’s poll shows drop in support for assisted suicide in Scotland
New polling commissioned and funded by assisted suicide pressure group, Dignity in Dying (formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society), shows that there has been a drop in support for assisted suicide in Scotland. Dignity in Dying commissioned two YouGov polls into...
Woman almost dies after ectopic pregnancy, which may have been masked by abortion
A paper published in the Irish Medical Journal has revealed that a woman almost died from an ectopic pregnancy after having a medical abortion. The paper, released on 21 March 2024, reveals that a woman from Limerick had a medical abortion two weeks prior to being...
Ireland abortions highest on record for 2022, one abortion for every seven live births
Ireland has seen its highest number of abortions on record for 2022, with one abortion for every seven babies born. Yesterday, the Department of Health in Ireland released its abortion statistics for 2022, which revealed there had been 8,156 abortions. This is the...
Thousands attend March for Life in Dublin
Crowds of thousands attended the March for Life in Dublin earlier this week following a review that recommended that doctors be immune from prosecution for performing abortions at any point up to birth and also recommended the removal of the three-day wait before an...
Irish abortion review recommends doctors be immune from prosecution for abortion up to birth
A review into the abortion law in Ireland, undertaken by academics, many of whom have a history of abortion campaigning, has recommended that doctors be able to perform abortions up to birth without the threat of prosecution and that the three-day waiting period...
Assisted suicide numbers highest ever as Oregon sees 32% increase in a single year
The state of Oregon had the highest number of assisted suicides in 2023 since the practice began in 1998. The latest annual assisted suicide report ‘Oregon Death with Dignity Act: 2023 Data Summary’, released last month, has revealed a total of 367 people ended their...
Dignity in Dying’s poll shows drop in support for assisted suicide in Scotland
New polling commissioned and funded by assisted suicide pressure group, Dignity in Dying (formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society), shows that there has been a drop in support for assisted suicide in Scotland. Dignity in Dying commissioned two YouGov polls into...
Abortion comedy play labels experience of multiple abortions “fun”
An “all-singing, all-dancing comedy cabaret show” about having multiple abortions has drawn criticism for trivialising the subject. Comedy show All Aboard! At Termination Station has been taken to the Edinburgh Fringe festival this summer. Billed as an...
1,200 suicide kits sent by Canadian man running ‘Escape Mode’ assisted suicide website
Kenneth Law, 57, of Mississauga, near Toronto, Canada, is being investigated over a series of deaths by suicide linked to poisonous substances he sent by post to people around the world. Arrested in May, he has been charged in Canada on two counts of counselling...
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Damien Hirst’s giant sculptures of the development of the unborn baby are still on display in Qatar a decade later
The giant sculptures of the development of the unborn human revealed by English artist, Damien...
Thousands set to take to streets of London for March for Life UK
The annual March for Life is taking place on Saturday 2 September in central London and its organisers are hoping for the biggest turn out yet. Last year, some 7,000 people made their way down Whitehall to gather on Parliament Square, outside the Houses of Parliament,...
Study finds taste of kale makes unborn babies grimace
Researchers have captured the facial expressions of unborn babies tasting food for the first time, finding that they smile when they taste carrot and grimace when they taste kale. Published in the journal, Psychological Science, scientists from the Durham University...
Christian Democrats in Belgium want to change law to allow abortion for babies between 12 and 14 weeks
The Christian Democratic and Flemish party, which is part of the coalition government in Belgium, was previously opposed to changing abortion laws, but has now said that it will support increasing the abortion time limit from 12 to 14 weeks and cutting the current...
20,000 take to streets of Malta to demand Government not introduce abortion
Over 20,000 people marched through Malta’s capital, Valletta, on Sunday afternoon, protesting the Maltese Government’s decision to table a bill that would introduce abortion to Malta. The demonstration was one of the largest protests in recent Maltese history,...
80 academics express “grave concern” about Bill to introduce abortion up to birth in Malta
Over 80 Maltese academics have signed a position paper on the Maltese Government’s proposed abortion law amendment that would introduce abortion up to birth, expressing “grave concern” and urging the Government to adopt a law that recognises the right to life of both...
Maltese Government tables abortion up to birth Bill
This afternoon the Maltese Government introduced a Bill to the Maltese Parliament that will introduce de facto abortion on demand, for any reason, up to birth in Malta. The Maltese Government earlier indicated that it would introduce a change to legislation that would...
Overall suicide numbers increase when assisted suicide and euthanasia made legal, research suggests
A review of data from countries that have made euthanasia and assisted suicide legal suggests that overall suicide numbers have increased in countries following the introduction of euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS). The Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford...
Woman, 23, who survived Brussels airport bombing but could not live with the trauma is ‘euthanised’
A 23-year-old woman who survived the Brussels airport terror attack in 2016 has ended her life by legal euthanasia, owing to severe depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and psychiatric trauma following the incident. Shanti De Corte was walking through the...
Premature baby who spent over a year in hospital goes home for the first time
A premature baby from Florida has gone home from hospital for the first time after spending over a year in neonatal intensive care. Baby Shiloh was born at 29 weeks gestation and weighed just over three pounds at birth. He experienced multiple health problems...
Baby girl born at just 23 weeks adopted by NICU nurses who cared for her
Two married nurses who work on a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Nebraska have adopted a little girl who received care in their unit for eight months. Taylor and Drew Deras met through working in the NICU and married in 2020. The following year, baby Ella was...
Assisted suicide numbers highest ever as Oregon sees 32% increase in a single year
The state of Oregon had the highest number of assisted suicides in 2023 since the practice began in 1998. The latest annual assisted suicide report ‘Oregon Death with Dignity Act: 2023 Data Summary’, released last month, has revealed a total of 367 people ended their...
Manchester: Police protect young female pro-life speaker from screaming pro-abortion mob
A "screaming pro-abortion mob" forced local police to provide an escort to a pro-life speaker at the University of Manchester who had to take transport to a different location because it was "not safe" to go directly to her accommodation. For the second time this...
New Zealand Labour Government that introduced extreme abortion law loses election
New Zealand’s Labour Government, which in 2020 introduced an extreme abortion law allowing de-facto abortion on demand for any reason up to birth, has been voted out of power. New Zealand’s General Election was held on Saturday 14 October 2023; the Labour Party Leader...
Terminally ill father left a series of inspiring notes & videos for his unborn daughter
An Australian father-to-be who tragically died of brain cancer before having the chance to meet his unborn daughter left a series of powerful videos and notes for her. Scott Ferguson, from Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia, was diagnosed with stage 4...
Mother speaks out after surrogate mother has abortion
A woman in New Zealand has spoken out after the surrogate mother of her child aborted her child without her knowledge. An anonymous couple from New Zealand have spoken about their experience of surrogacy after the surrogate mother, who volunteered her womb to gestate...
43% increase in late-term abortions coincides with NZ PM introducing extreme abortion law to New Zealand
New Zealand has seen a 43% increase in late-term abortions - defined as an abortion being performed on a baby between 20 weeks gestation and birth - in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the latest data. The data, obtained by an Official Information Request by Right...
“Determined little fighter” born at 26 weeks in a family of premmies now starting school at five years old
A girl who was born 14 weeks early and weighing less than 1kg, is now a healthy and happy five-year-old, weighs 22kg and is about to start school. Bridget de Beer was born via emergency caesarean section when her mum was just 26 weeks pregnant in 2018. She spent two...
Victoria’s euthanasia and assisted suicide deaths increase 31%
The number of people who ended their lives by assisted suicide or euthanasia in Victoria, Australia, has increased 31% in a single year, reportedly accounting for 0.58% of all deaths in the state during that period. In an annual Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board...
Extreme abortion Bill voted down in Victoria Australia
A Bill in Victoria, Australia which would have forced hospitals with a religious affiliation and which receive any state funding to offer abortions and assisted suicide has failed. Earlier this week, Reason Party (formely named the Australian Sex Party) MP Fiona...
Doctor booked abortion for baby with Down’s syndrome without asking mother
Almost one in two families in New South Wales, Australia who have a child with Down’s syndrome felt pressured by doctors to have an abortion when the condition was diagnosed in the womb, including one mother who found out when she heard of her baby’s diagnosis that...
Investigation uncovers Nigerian military’s secret mass abortion programme
The Nigerian military has been running a secret illegal mass abortion programme since at least 2013 that has resulted in at least 10,000 abortions, according to a Reuters report. The Reuters report is based on interviews with Nigerian women and girls, a number of...
Extreme abortion law plans put on hold in Malawi
Plans to introduce an extreme abortion Bill in Malawi, which would have allowed abortion right up to birth, have been put on hold. The move follows strong opposition from MPs, the general population and cross-community groups. Chairperson of the Parliamentary...
Marie Stopes franchise forced to close after ‘fake’ doctors found performing illegal abortions
The bodies of ten illegally aborted babies have been found discarded and decomposing in a bin at a Marie Stopes International franchise ‘Medical Centre’ in Kenya, it has been revealed. A police search of the Marie Stopes franchise Prestige Health Point Medical Centre...
Proposal to introduce abortion up to birth to Malawi faces cross-community opposition
An extreme abortion Bill, which would allow abortion on demand right up to the point of birth, in Malawi faces opposition from a cross-community group of religious leaders in the country. In a joint statement issued last month, the leaders of Malawi's three main...
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Chile rejects abortion
Chile’s lower Chamber of Deputies has rejected a Bill that sought to introduce abortion on demand up to 14 weeks gestation. The legislation, introduced in January this year, sought to amend the current Chilean penal code so that the current prohibitions on abortion...
Mexico’s Supreme Court rejects introducing abortion on-demand up to 12-weeks
Mexico’s Supreme Court has voted 4-1 to reject an injunction to allow abortion on-demand up to 12-weeks in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Last year, a judge in the Mexican State of Veracruz approved an injunction ordering the state's Congress to remove articles 149,...
Mexican state rejects abortion on demand proposals, while another adopts pro-life legislation
An attempt to allow abortion on demand for any reason up to the 12 weeks has been rejected in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. In a virtual session held yesterday, the United Commission of Justice and Public Health voted by 6 votes to 3 to dismiss the proposed...
Attempt to introduce abortion-on-demand to Colombia fails
Colombia’s top court has this week ruled against introducing abortion on demand to the country. Colombia’s Constitutional Court was considering changes to the country’s law following a legal challenge brought before the court last year hoping to ban all abortions on...
Vermont becomes America’s first ‘assisted suicide tourism’ state
The state of Vermont has become the first state in the United States to allow non-residents to end their lives by assisted suicide. Under the ‘Patient Choice and Control at the End of Life Act 2013’, Vermont permits doctors to prescribe drugs for self-administration...
Pro-abortion group threatens political violence if Roe is overturned
A pro-abortion group has issued a call to action instructing its followers to carry “anger out into the world” by “expressing it physically” on the night that the Supreme Court issues its opinion on the abortion law in the US. Last month, the Supreme Court’s decision...
Canadian man applies for euthanasia because of ‘eco-anxiety’
A man suffering from 'eco-anxiety' has applied for euthanasia in Canada. Howard Breen, 68, who lives in Vancouver, is not terminally ill but is experiencing extreme mental suffering because of his concerns about climate change. He told Vice: “It becomes debilitating....
Abortion supporters protest at Justices’ homes, firebomb pro-life centres and vandalise churches
Tensions mount in the United States after abortion supporters held protests outside the homes of three Justices of the Supreme Court and at least two pro-life centres were set on fire following the leak that Roe v Wade might be overturned. Videos have also emerged of...
Crowd takes to the streets for India’s March for Life
Nearly five times as many people gathered for the 2023 March for Life in India compared to the previous year, as close to 1,000 pro-lifers marched to oppose 52 years of legal abortion in India. Youth activists raise awareness This summer, the second national...
Further evidence of China forcing abortions on Uighur women
Further details have emerged about the Chinese Government forcing women into unwanted abortions and surgical sterilisations in an attempt to limit the Uighur minority population. Last month, an investigative report highlighted the brutal treatment of women and unborn...
Chinese authorities force abortions on Uighurs to suppress population
Abortions, contraceptive devices and surgical sterilisations measures are being forced upon women in Xinjiang in an apparent attempt to limit the population of Muslim Uighurs, according to new research. While evidence of forced abortions and birth control has surfaced...
Mother given ‘forced abortion’ in China granted refuge in New Zealand, after harrowing story
A Chinese mother who was given a forced abortion after falling pregnant with her third child have finally been granted refugee status in New Zealand. The mother - along with her husband, her 19-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son - appealed to the Immigration and...
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Lobby group claims majority of religious believers in Scotland support making assisted suicide legal despite unreliable sample size
Based on sample sizes too small to represent the public, an assisted suicide lobby group, along with a prominent news organisation, has claimed that the majority of religious believers in Scotland support a change in the law on assisted suicide. Earlier this year,...
Canada set to legalise euthanasia for drug addicts
Canada is set to legalise euthanasia on the grounds of mental health in March 2024. As the date approaches, debate is reigniting around the controversial law which will legalise euthanasia for drug addicts. The move is being branded as “eugenics” by individuals...
Support for assisted suicide drops in England and Wales, according to poll from assisted suicide campaigners
New polling in England and Wales, commissioned and funded by assisted suicide lobby group, Dignity in Dying, shows there has been a drop in support for assisted suicide. Dignity in Dying, formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, commissioned two YouGov polls into...
Bill proposes extreme euthanasia regime for Isle of Man
An assisted suicide and euthanasia bill, more radical than any similar legislation in the US or recently proposed in the UK, will be debated later this month in the Isle of Man. The 'Assisted Dying Bill 2023' is set to receive a Second Reading in the House of Keys,...
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Lobby group claims majority of religious believers in Scotland support making assisted suicide legal despite unreliable sample size
Based on sample sizes too small to represent the public, an assisted suicide lobby group, along with a prominent news organisation, has claimed that the majority of religious believers in Scotland support a change in the law on assisted suicide. Earlier this year,...
Dignity in Dying’s poll shows drop in support for assisted suicide in Scotland
New polling commissioned and funded by assisted suicide pressure group, Dignity in Dying (formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society), shows that there has been a drop in support for assisted suicide in Scotland. Dignity in Dying commissioned two YouGov polls into...
Major review published in BMJ journal reveals widespread problems with Oregon’s assisted suicide regime
A lack of critical information about complications in cases of assisted suicide; an increase in the proportion of people who end their lives being concerned about being a burden; a reduction in the length of the doctor-patient relationship before an assisted suicide;...
Australia: Man ends life using assisted suicide drugs intended for his wife
A man in Queensland, Australia has ended his life using assisted suicide drugs intended for his wife. The law permitting assisted suicide came into force at the beginning of this year, and permits the prescribing of lethal drugs to those who fulfil the eligibility...
I’m thankful assisted suicide wasn’t an option when my mother was dying
My late mother would repeatedly tell me that if she ever became a burden, I should put her out of her misery. A chronic alcoholic, she eventually drank herself senseless and I found myself looking for adult care for her when she was only in her early 50s. By...
NADINE DORRIES: When they told my husband he had four months to live, he wanted to go to Dignitas. But by the end, at home surrounded by love, he was so glad he didn’t…
The evening of February 7, 2019, was like every other in any February: cold, dark and damp. As I drove my husband Paul to hospital to get the results of tests he’d undergone for a troublesome stomach ulcer, we were planning where to book for our family summer holiday...
Canada has revealed the horror of assisted dying
‘Assisted dying’, as it is euphemistically called, is often sold as a more compassionate, civilised alternative to suffering at the end of life. Those still gripped by this delusion should take a look at Justin Trudeau’s Canada, where so-called assisted dying has...
For many, the case for assisted dying is clear. But life – and death – is often not so simple
As it grows older, more liberal and less religious, the west is changing its mind about how it wants to die. Thirty years ago prescribing people the means to kill themselves was illegal everywhere bar Switzerland. But since then the practice has spread, reaching...
I’m thankful assisted suicide wasn’t an option when my mother was dying
My late mother would repeatedly tell me that if she ever became a burden, I should put her out of her misery. A chronic alcoholic, she eventually drank herself senseless and I found myself looking for adult care for her when she was only in her early 50s. By...
Esther Rantzen is wrong about assisted suicide
It can’t be any fun to have lung cancer as Dame Esther Rantzen does; I watched my father die from mesothelioma over the best part of a decade, and in the last couple of years this once tall, handsome, athletic man was more or less a tumour on legs. But I recall the...
Millions die with dignity without choosing assisted suicide, but we rarely hear their stories
The week before the annual commemoration of the most celebrated birth in human history seems an odd time to concentrate media attention on death. But Dame Esther Rantzen, never shy, has done so. Dame Esther is suffering from stage four lung cancer. As she herself...
The Gen Z abortion crisis
The summer holiday is always a bit of a non-event when it comes to news. With Westminster on recess and chief editors retreating to their second homes, deputy staff members stretch out stories like used bits of cling film until their bosses return. Be it the Bibby...