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Israel’s abortion rate has continued a 32-year decline as the number of women seeking an abortion fell from 18.6 per 1,000 in 1988 to 8.4 per 1,000 in 2019 for women between the ages of 15 and 49. According to new data from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS),...
Abortion was the largest cause of death worldwide in 2019, ending the lives of an estimated 73.3 million unborn babies. The World Health Organisation estimates that there were nearly 55.4 million deaths from causes other than abortion worldwide in 2019. Ischaemic...
Coronation Street actress, Kerri Quinn, has said she is “thrilled” to play a pro-life activist in an upcoming BBC drama. The Belfast actress, known for her role as the fiery Vicky Jefferies in Coronation Street, will play a pro-life activist in the upcoming BBC drama...
Scientists have found that the number of British children born with Down’s syndrome has fallen by more than fifty percent according to the latest figures, as increasing numbers of parents opt for a controversial prenatal screening test for Down’s syndrome. The study,...
Paraguay’s parliament has held a minute’s silence in response to the “tragedy” of an extreme abortion law being introduced to Argentina. After the Argentine Senate voted to introduce abortion on demand at the end of last year, the Congress in neighbouring Paraguay...
A baby born below the abortion limit for disabled babies in the UK is now three months old and doing well. Archie Burns was born ten weeks early in August of this year in Pinderfields Hospital Wakefield. Weighing only 2b 12oz and with complex medical issues, he was...
A baby born below the abortion limit for disabled babies in the UK is now three months old and...
A baby born at 26 weeks in New Zealand, will be spending his first Christmas in hospital with his parents. Amon Zare Josiah de Dios was born in a hospital in Wellington after his mother experienced pre-eclampsia during her second trimester. Amon was born extremely...
A new study suggested that singing to premature infants can reduce a mother’s anxiety and support the mother-baby bond. Published in the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, researchers at the University of Helsinki observed 24 mothers who sang or hummed to their baby...
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Israel’s abortion rate has continued a 32-year decline as the number of women seeking an abortion fell from 18.6 per 1,000 in 1988 to 8.4 per 1,000 in 2019 for women between the ages of 15 and 49. According to new data from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS),...
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Actress Sally Phillips has accused ITV of being ‘irresponsible’ and causing ‘unnecessary hurt’ after a storyline in Emmerdale featured a couple who have an abortion after learning their baby has Down’s syndrome. The actress, who has a sixteen-year-old son with Down’s...
A mother who adopted a child with Down's syndrome has shared her inspiring story. The anonymous mother, who adopted Harry, shared her adoption story with the Metro, as part of their ‘Adoption Month’ news coverage. After struggles with infertility and a...
Politicians fear the roll-out of prenatal tests for Down’s syndrome across England, Wales and Scotland will result in discriminatory abortions of babies with the condition. In a debate, commemorating Down’s Syndrome Awareness Month, DUP MP Jim Shannon expressed...
Poland’s top court has ruled that disability-selective abortions, which make up a majority of all terminations in Poland, are unconstitutional. The decision by the country's Constitutional Court today will mean the majority of unborn babies in Poland will be protected...
The High Court in London will hear a landmark case against the UK Government over the country’s discriminatory abortion legislation, which singles out babies with disabilities by allowing terminations right through to birth for conditions including Down’s syndrome,...
DUP MP Carla Lockhart has criticised the UK Government for imposing discriminatory abortion legislation on Northern Ireland, which allows babies prenatally diagnosed with Down’s syndrome to be aborted right up to birth. Addressing the Minister for Northern Ireland,...
Actress Sally Phillips has accused ITV of being ‘irresponsible’ and causing ‘unnecessary hurt’ after a storyline in Emmerdale featured a couple who have an abortion after learning their baby has Down’s syndrome. The actress, who has a sixteen-year-old son with Down’s...
A mother who adopted a child with Down's syndrome has shared her inspiring story. The anonymous mother, who adopted Harry, shared her adoption story with the Metro, as part of their ‘Adoption Month’ news coverage. After struggles with infertility and a...
Politicians fear the roll-out of prenatal tests for Down’s syndrome across England, Wales and Scotland will result in discriminatory abortions of babies with the condition. In a debate, commemorating Down’s Syndrome Awareness Month, DUP MP Jim Shannon expressed...
Poland’s top court has ruled that disability-selective abortions, which make up a majority of all terminations in Poland, are unconstitutional. The decision by the country's Constitutional Court today will mean the majority of unborn babies in Poland will be protected...
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A premature baby born at just 23 weeks and weighing just 1.5lb (680g) has defied all odds and is now thriving at home with his mother and father. Doctors told Logan Ray’s parents to prepare for the worst when he was born at just 12 inches long - the same length as a...
A premature baby girl born at 22 weeks and two days, weighing just 1lb 2oz (510g), is among the youngest surviving premature babies in the world. Lura Lauer gave birth to twins, Lyric Elaine and Cali Rose, after going into premature labour on 15 July, four months...
A hospital's youngest premature baby who was born more than four months early has been allowed to go home. Lilly Rae was born on 9 December at just 22 weeks and two days gestation at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. But despite weighing in at just over 1lb...
Premature twins given zero chance of survival are now thriving and should be able to join their parents and big sister at home next month. Twin sisters Makayla and Makenzie Pope each weighed just over 1lb when they arrived at 22 weeks and three days, on 8 December...
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A 21-year-old mum who delayed cancer treatment rather than have an abortion has now been given the all clear. Ellie Whittaker from Chesterfield was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in October 2019 while she was also 16 weeks pregnant. Ellie was told that chemotherapy...
A mother who was repeatedly pressured to have an abortion after her baby was prenatally diagnosed with Down’s syndrome has spoken of her joy at keeping her baby. Two years later, Noah is capturing the hearts of tens of thousands of people around the world. ...
Premature twins, Finn and Zack Bishop, are now flourishing at home after being born at 28 weeks, and just one day after doctors advised their parents to have an abortion. At 24 weeks, mother Caroline Bishop underwent pioneering surgery to correct a condition which was...
A two-year-old from Cambridge born with her stomach, liver and bowel on the outside of her body continues to defy the odds after her parents rejected advice from doctors to have an abortion. Doctors did not expect Laurel Phizacklea, who was born with a major...
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A newborn baby girl has been rescued by shocked locals after being found buried alive in a field in India. The newborn was buried in a field in Khatima, a town in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, when she was spotted by a labourer. According to reports, the labourer...
Amnesty International has announced a new abortion policy which calls for countries around the world to introduce abortion-on-demand, for any reason, up to birth and allow sex-selective abortion. The self-declared human rights organisation says that, in addition to...
A father to five girls may have caused the death of his preborn son after he allegedly cut open the belly of his wife to find out if she was expecting a boy. The mother was in a critical condition when she was taken to a hospital in India’s capital, Delhi, where...
A bill seeking to ban sex-selective abortion is gaining momentum in Canada, ahead of International Day of the Girl on 11 October. Introduced in February, by Cathy Wagantall MP, the Sex Selective Abortion Act would prohibit medical professionals from performing...
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UK taxpayers are funding legal action brought forward by a group in Northern Ireland against the Government in Westminster over a “lack of access”...
Coronation Street actress, Kerri Quinn, has said she is “thrilled” to play a pro-life activist in an upcoming BBC drama. The Belfast actress, known for her role as the fiery Vicky Jefferies in Coronation Street, will play a pro-life activist in the upcoming BBC drama...
Health officials in Northern Ireland project up to 6,500 abortions annually under the new abortion regime, representing a 497% increase in the number of abortions versus numbers before the introduction of the new new abortion regime. According to information gained...
More than 700 abortions have been carried out in Northern Ireland since the UK imposed an extreme abortion regime on the province, new figures have revealed. In response to a written question, submitted by Traditional Unionist Voice MLA Jim Allister, Health Minister...
A prominent Scottish bioethicist has argued that proposals to introduce DIY abortion in Scotland on a permanent basis undermines the “appropriate and sensitive respect for the disposal of the remains of the embryo/foetus”. DIY home abortions, whereby a woman seeking a...
A member of the Scottish Parliament has expressed strong opposition to the permanent introduction of ‘DIY’ home abortion, as a Scottish government consultation continues to take evidence on its future until the 5th January. In March of this year, the Scottish...
A leading Scottish doctor has voiced opposition to the proposed extension of ‘DIY’ home abortions in Scotland. Since the coronavirus lockdown, women in Scotland and across England and Wales have been able to take both pills required in a medical abortion at home....
The Scottish Government has launched a public consultation on whether the temporary measure allowing ‘DIY’ home abortions should be made permanent. It comes just weeks after the Scottish Government revealed its intention to expand access to abortion across the nation,...
Pro-life protests have taken place across Ireland in response to the shocking revelations about the nature and extent of the late-term abortions now occurring in Ireland. Published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, September 2020, a report...
Abortion doctors in Ireland have described late-term abortion as “‘brutal’, ‘awful’ and ‘emotionally difficult’, referring to it as ‘stabbing the baby in the heart’, and held themselves responsible for the death of the baby”. A recent study based on interviews with...
Politicians in the Republic of Ireland have rejected an opportunity to refer a radical assisted suicide Bill to a special committee which would assess the legislation’s impact and report back within 12 months, by 86 to 65 votes. Instead, the so-called ‘Dying with...
A radical Private Members’ Bill attempting to legalise assisted suicide in the Republic of Ireland has been introduced in the lower house of Ireland’s parliament. The so-called ‘Dying with Dignity Bill’ was tabled in the Dáil Éireann by People Before Profit TD Gino...
Israel’s abortion rate has continued a 32-year decline as the number of women seeking an abortion fell from 18.6 per 1,000 in 1988 to 8.4 per 1,000 in 2019 for women between the ages of 15 and 49. According to new data from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS),...
Abortion was the largest cause of death worldwide in 2019, ending the lives of an estimated 73.3 million unborn babies. The World Health Organisation estimates that there were nearly 55.4 million deaths from causes other than abortion worldwide in 2019. Ischaemic...
Scientists have found that the number of British children born with Down’s syndrome has fallen by more than fifty percent according to the latest figures, as increasing numbers of parents opt for a controversial prenatal screening test for Down’s syndrome. The study,...
Health officials in Northern Ireland project up to 6,500 abortions annually under the new abortion regime, representing a 497% increase in the number of abortions versus numbers before the introduction of the new new abortion regime. According to information gained...
Coronation Street actress, Kerri Quinn, has said she is “thrilled” to play a pro-life activist in...
Thousands have joined in pro-life demonstrations, which according to organisers took place in across more than 500 cities in Argentina in opposition to a bill that would legalise abortion on demand. Argentines demonstrated for the protection of the unborn and support...
Pro-life campaigners from across the UK gathered outside the Palace of Westminster in Parliament Square today to commemorate the 9,563,907* lives lost since the passing of the Abortion Act, which happened 53 years ago on 27 October 1967. The event, which was organised...
Spain’s Congress of Deputies, the lower house of Spain’s legislative body, has voted in favour of legalising euthanasia by a vote of 198-138. On Thursday 17th December, the Spanish Parliament took the country one step closer to making euthanasia and assisted suicide...
Around ten cases of supposed illegal euthanasia are being investigated in Belgium after allegations were received through an anonymous letter to the public prosecutor. The public prosecutor in Leuven is investigating cases of euthanasia which may not have been carried...
Abortion doctors in Ireland have described late-term abortion as “‘brutal’, ‘awful’ and ‘emotionally difficult’, referring to it as ‘stabbing the baby in the heart’, and held themselves responsible for the death of the baby”. A recent study based on interviews with...
Doctors in the Netherlands are now permitted to secretly sedate patients who have dementia before euthanising them. New regulations say that in those cases where a patient has dementia and has previously requested euthanasia, “it is not necessary for the doctor to...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Government to do more to reduce the number of abortions in the country by offering more support to pregnant women. Increased funding for organisations which offer effective support to women in crisis...
Poland’s top court has ruled that disability-selective abortions, which make up a majority of all terminations in Poland, are unconstitutional. The decision by the country's Constitutional Court today will mean the majority of unborn babies in Poland will be protected...
Spain’s Congress of Deputies, the lower house of Spain’s legislative body, has voted in favour of legalising euthanasia by a vote of 198-138. On Thursday 17th December, the Spanish Parliament took the country one step closer to making euthanasia and assisted suicide...
Around ten cases of supposed illegal euthanasia are being investigated in Belgium after allegations were received through an anonymous letter to the public prosecutor. The public prosecutor in Leuven is investigating cases of euthanasia which may not have been carried...
Abortion doctors in Ireland have described late-term abortion as “‘brutal’, ‘awful’ and ‘emotionally difficult’, referring to it as ‘stabbing the baby in the heart’, and held themselves responsible for the death of the baby”. A recent study based on interviews with...
Doctors in the Netherlands are now permitted to secretly sedate patients who have dementia before euthanising them. New regulations say that in those cases where a patient has dementia and has previously requested euthanasia, “it is not necessary for the doctor to...
A baby born at 26 weeks in New Zealand, will be spending his first Christmas in hospital with his parents. Amon Zare Josiah de Dios was born in a hospital in Wellington after his mother experienced pre-eclampsia during her second trimester. Amon was born extremely...
Polling suggests that 80% of those who voted in October’s assisted suicide referendum in New Zealand misunderstood what the law would actually do. In October, the ‘End of Life Choice Act’ became law through a binding referendum where 65.2% of voters supported the Act....
A New Zealand baby born at 23 weeks is now 9 months old and has left the hospital. Declan Colquhoun, along with his brother Riley, was born in March at just 23 weeks gestation. He was so small, weighing only 400g, that his aunt’s wedding ring would have fitted around...
UK political satire series Spitting Image has featured a critical take on New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s support for the country’s new euthanasia law. Episode seven of the series, which has returned after a 24-year hiatus, included a sketch of Jacinda...
The mothers of children with Down’s syndrome are revealing the pressure they are put under by medics, often while in an emotional state, to abort their unborn babies with the condition. The alarming testimonies were heard by Australia’s Royal Commission into...
An elderly woman in Canada has been euthanised to avoid having to live through another COVID-19 lockdown. 90-year-old Nancy Russell ended her life by euthanasia last month in Toronto, Canada so that she did not have to endure another lockdown, despite the fact that...
A bill seeking to ban sex-selective abortion is gaining momentum in Canada, ahead of International Day of the Girl on 11 October. Introduced in February, by Cathy Wagantall MP, the Sex Selective Abortion Act would prohibit medical professionals from performing...
The number of assisted suicide and euthanasia deaths in Canada rose by more than 25% in 2019 and made up 2% of all deaths in the country last year, according to a report released by the Canadian Government. Health Canada’s first annual report on Medical Assistance in...
Filmmaker, author, and social activist Obianuju Ekeocha has accused Western nations of ‘neo-colonialism’ due to their efforts to impose abortion on Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a new report from Culture of Life Africa. In a a new report by, entitled...
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...
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...
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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Paraguay’s parliament has held a minute’s silence in response to the “tragedy” of an extreme abortion law being introduced to Argentina. After the Argentine Senate voted to introduce abortion on demand at the end of last year, the Congress in neighbouring Paraguay...
Argentina's senate has voted through a bill to introduce abortion on demand to Argentina. The result was announced at 4am on Wednesday with 38 votes in favour, 29 against and one abstention. Pro-abortion campaigners erupted into celebration outside the congressional...
Thousands have joined in pro-life demonstrations, which according to organisers took place in across more than 500 cities in Argentina in opposition to a bill that would legalise abortion on demand. Argentines demonstrated for the protection of the unborn and support...
The Argentine Government has put plans to introduce abortion legislation on hold until 2021. President Alberto Fernández vowed he would introduce abortion in his state-of-the-nation speech on 1 March 2020 and that a bill would enter Congress within the...
A Canadian hospice has said that it is being forced to lay off clinical staff and faces eviction because those operating the hospice have refused to participate in euthanasia of their patients. The 10-bed Irene Thomas Hospice in Ladner, British Columbia, is run by the...
Thousands of pro-life campaigners gathered in South Australia this week to urge the state Government to drop plans to introduce abortion, for any reason, up to birth. Over 3,500 attended Adelaide’s Walk for Life on the weekend carrying signs which read, “Abortion Up...
The Australian state of New South Wales has voted in favour of an extreme abortion bill that will permit terminations up to 22 weeks gestation without any kind of restriction and up to birth with the consent of two doctors. There was applause in the New South Wales...
Pro-life MPs in New South Wales, Australia have managed to add safeguards against sex-selective abortion to an extreme bill which intends to permit abortion up until birth with the approval of two health professionals. A simple amendment tabled by Finance Minister...
An MP has urged the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to call on the Chinese Communist Party to end their population control measures, including forced abortions and sterilisation, of the Uyghur community in China. Conservative MP Fiona Bruce, in a debate...
An independent tribunal in London has been launched to investigate whether the Chinese Government’s attempt to limit the country’s Uyghur minority population, which includes forcing unwanted abortions and surgical sterilisations on the Uyghur women, constitute...
A doctor who escaped the regime in China has shared how she participated in at least 500-600 operations on Uighur women in the country, including forced abortion, forced sterilisation and forced removal of wombs. Speaking to ITV News, the Uighur woman also revealed...
Forced abortions and infanticide – the purposeful causing of a baby's death – are among the human rights atrocities experienced by women who have attempted to flee North Korea, according to a United Nations Human Rights report. 100 women have shared ‘heartbreaking’...
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A Canadian hospice has said that it is being forced to lay off clinical staff and faces eviction because those operating the hospice have refused to participate in euthanasia of their patients. The 10-bed Irene Thomas Hospice in Ladner, British Columbia, is run by the...
Polling suggests that 80% of those who voted in October’s assisted suicide referendum in New Zealand misunderstood what the law would actually do. In October, the ‘End of Life Choice Act’ became law through a binding referendum where 65.2% of voters supported the Act....
Spain’s Congress of Deputies, the lower house of Spain’s legislative body, has voted in favour of legalising euthanasia by a vote of 198-138. On Thursday 17th December, the Spanish Parliament took the country one step closer to making euthanasia and assisted suicide...
Around ten cases of supposed illegal euthanasia are being investigated in Belgium after allegations were received through an anonymous letter to the public prosecutor. The public prosecutor in Leuven is investigating cases of euthanasia which may not have been carried...
A Canadian hospice has said that it is being forced to lay off clinical staff and faces eviction because those operating the hospice have refused to participate in euthanasia of their patients. The 10-bed Irene Thomas Hospice in Ladner, British Columbia, is run by the...
Polling suggests that 80% of those who voted in October’s assisted suicide referendum in New Zealand misunderstood what the law would actually do. In October, the ‘End of Life Choice Act’ became law through a binding referendum where 65.2% of voters supported the Act....
Spain’s Congress of Deputies, the lower house of Spain’s legislative body, has voted in favour of legalising euthanasia by a vote of 198-138. On Thursday 17th December, the Spanish Parliament took the country one step closer to making euthanasia and assisted suicide...
Around ten cases of supposed illegal euthanasia are being investigated in Belgium after allegations were received through an anonymous letter to the public prosecutor. The public prosecutor in Leuven is investigating cases of euthanasia which may not have been carried...
Lois McLatchie is a legal analyst for ADF International, a faith-based legal advocacy organisation in Geneva. Academic freedom means the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. So said Albert Einstein. But it’s unlikely he’d find...
By Dr Calum McKellar PARTIAL home medical abortions have been available since 2017 in Scotland. These usually take place in the first 10 weeks of gestation whereby a woman is given two sets of pills. The first (mifepristone) is generally taken in a clinic and...
Since 2017, partial home abortions have been possible in Scotland for medical terminations. These usually take place in the first ten weeks of gestation, whereby a woman is given two sets of pills. The first (mifepristone) is generally taken in a clinic and obstructs...
Recent calls for a parliamentary review of assisted suicide prematurely presume that the winds of political and social change are blowing in favour of legalisation. Through heavy focus on hard cases and hardly any coverage of the life-giving merits of palliative...
Lois McLatchie is a legal analyst for ADF International, a faith-based legal advocacy organisation in Geneva. Academic freedom means the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. So said Albert Einstein. But it’s unlikely he’d find...
By Dr Calum McKellar PARTIAL home medical abortions have been available since 2017 in Scotland. These usually take place in the first 10 weeks of gestation whereby a woman is given two sets of pills. The first (mifepristone) is generally taken in a clinic and...
Since 2017, partial home abortions have been possible in Scotland for medical terminations. These usually take place in the first ten weeks of gestation, whereby a woman is given two sets of pills. The first (mifepristone) is generally taken in a clinic and obstructs...
Recent calls for a parliamentary review of assisted suicide prematurely presume that the winds of political and social change are blowing in favour of legalisation. Through heavy focus on hard cases and hardly any coverage of the life-giving merits of palliative...
