An attempt to hijack the UK Government’s flagship Health and Care Bill with an extreme abortion proposal has failed, in a significant pro-life victory, with Diana Johnson MP’s amendment (NC50) not going to a vote. This amendment would have changed the Offences...
A number of senior political figures gathered at Westminster Cathedral this morning for the requiem funeral mass for pro-life MP, Sir David Amess, who tragically died earlier this year. The mass was attended by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour leader Keir Starmer...
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...
The Labour Party in Ireland has adopted a policy to support making abortion legal up until birth without any restriction. The policy was announced and voted through last Saturday 13 November, during their annual party conference. Since the repeal of the Eighth...
A new law, which sought to extend the waiting period before a woman can get an abortion, was rejected in the Slovakian parliament. The bill lost by one vote, with 67 of the 134 lawmakers present voting in favour of it. The law, introduced by members of parliament from...
A mother of two was found dead two days after emailing an assisted suicide centre in Switzerland. According to her family, Hannah Jean Elizabeth Martin had suffered with mental health issues since she was thirteen. At only 25, the mum of two was found dead in her home...
A baby born in India at just 28 weeks gestation has become the country’s youngest COVID-19...
A woman fleeing from Afghanistan has given birth to a baby girl at 30,000 feet on her flight from Dubai to Birmingham. In the frantic evacuation from Afghanistan, Soman Noori, 26, left Kabul to fly to Dubai on her way to the UK. She was heavily pregnant and...
In Kenya's western region, childcare is traditionally the responsibility of mothers. However, a new initiative is helping Kenyan fathers take a more hands-on role, and is helping save the lives of premature babies. In Kenya, around 50,000 infants sadly die before...
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PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Significant pro-life victory - Attempt to introduce extreme change to abortion law fails An attempt to hijack the UK Government’s flagship Health and Care Bill with an extreme abortion proposal has failed, in a significant...
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As you may have seen in the media, a study has revealed that over 10,000 women have needed hospital treatment following the use of medical abortion pills since March 2020. The abortion lobby are now running a large campaign in the media to put pressure on the...
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Ernie Gawilan, the 30-year-old champion swimmer, competed in the 2016 Paralympics and was the first Filipino gold medalist at the Asian Para Games in 2018. Now, he competed at the 2021 Paralympics in Tokyo, where he carried his country’s flag in the closing ceremony....
A couple from Dublin who were told to have an abortion because their daughter has spina bifida are now fighting to give their “miracle girl” the best opportunities in life. At their thirty-week scan, Claire McDaid and Jay Needham were told that their daughter had a...
A mother whose son was born with Amniotic Band Syndrome (ABS), a rare syndrome that inhibits limb growth in the womb, says not having an abortion was the “best decision in her life”. ABS is a rare congenital condition in which bands of tissue inside the sac of...
A mother of an actor with Down’s syndrome says that she is “really thankful” that she was never offered pre-natal testing for Down’s syndrome. Tommy Jessop has Down’s syndrome and stars in the BBC’s crime drama Line of Duty. The plot is loosely inspired by the 1999...
This evening the Severe Fetal Impairment Abortion (Amendment) Bill passed its second stage at the Northern Ireland Assembly by 48 votes to 12. The Severe Fetal Impairment Abortion (Amendment) Bill proposes removing the current grounds in the abortion regulations that...
Over 25,000 people have signed a petition calling on political leaders in Northern Ireland to vote for a Bill which would prevent babies with disabilities including Down’s syndrome, cleft lip and club foot from being aborted up until birth. The Severe Fetal Impairment...
Ernie Gawilan, the 30-year-old champion swimmer, competed in the 2016 Paralympics and was the first Filipino gold medalist at the Asian Para Games in 2018. Now, he competed at the 2021 Paralympics in Tokyo, where he carried his country’s flag in the closing ceremony....
A couple from Dublin who were told to have an abortion because their daughter has spina bifida are now fighting to give their “miracle girl” the best opportunities in life. At their thirty-week scan, Claire McDaid and Jay Needham were told that their daughter had a...
A mother whose son was born with Amniotic Band Syndrome (ABS), a rare syndrome that inhibits limb growth in the womb, says not having an abortion was the “best decision in her life”. ABS is a rare congenital condition in which bands of tissue inside the sac of...
A mother of an actor with Down’s syndrome says that she is “really thankful” that she was never offered pre-natal testing for Down’s syndrome. Tommy Jessop has Down’s syndrome and stars in the BBC’s crime drama Line of Duty. The plot is loosely inspired by the 1999...
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A baby born at 21 weeks and one day has been confirmed to be the world’s most premature baby. The Guinness World Records has confirmed that Curtis Means, born 19 weeks early, is the world’s most premature baby to survive. He was born weighing less than a pound with...
An attempt to hijack the UK Government’s flagship Health and Care Bill with an extreme abortion proposal has failed, in a significant pro-life victory, with Diana Johnson MP’s amendment (NC50) not going to a vote. This amendment would have changed the Offences...
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...
On April 8th Minal Vernekar gave birth to baby Ivaan via an emergency Caesarean, at 32 weeks pregnant. Seconds after giving birth, Minal, who had tested positive for COVID-19, died of a cardiac arrest. Minal, who worked as a HR consultant, was staying with her parents...
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Author and former model, Katie Price, has said she tried to have an abortion three times but couldn’t go through with it. According to her latest autobiography, Harvey and Me, Price found herself pregnant in 2001. Her then-boyfriend, Dwight Yorke, had been a striker...
Sanya Richards-Ross, a former Olympic track and field athlete, has spoken out about being pressured into an abortion. Speaking about her journey to an abortion clinic in her new book she said: “I knew I was at a crossroads. Everything I ever wanted seemed to be...
Canadian professional ice hockey player, Evander Kane, has been accused of promising to pay a woman $3 million to get an abortion. The ice hockey player who plays for the San Jose Sharks is being sued by a woman for $6 million after Kane allegedly promised to pay $3...
RnB singer R. Kelly allegedly pressured an underage girl into having an abortion she did not want, a court in Brooklyn has heard. The 54-year-old singer has pleaded not guilty to a nine-count racketeering indictment describing his alleged abuse of six women and girls....
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An attempt to hijack the UK Government’s flagship Health and Care Bill with an extreme abortion proposal has failed, in a significant pro-life victory, with Diana Johnson MP’s amendment (NC50) not going to a vote. This amendment would have changed the Offences...
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...
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...
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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The Severe Fetal Impairment Abortion (Amendment) Bill has passed Committee Stage at the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Bill proposes removing the...
A number of self-proclaimed ‘pro-life’ MLAs have voted in favour of a Bill that, if it became law, would make it illegal to offer assistance, advice or even to pray outside abortion clinics and hospitals offering abortions in Northern Ireland. The Bill, introduced by...
Northern Ireland’s First Minister Paul Givan has said he will resist the UK Government’s order forcing Stormont to commission abortion services in Northern Ireland. This announcement follows last Thursday’s announcement by Brandon Lewis MP, Secretary of State for...
Former DUP leader and current agriculture minister, Edwin Poots, has said Northern Ireland’s First Minister Robin Swann and other devolved ministers should ignore Westminster’s attempts to force the Northern Ireland executive to commission abortion services. Poots,...
Two former presidents of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow are among medical professionals calling for an end to ‘DIY’ home abortions. Former president of the Royal College of Physicians from 2012-2015, Frank Dunn, and his successor, David...
A new assisted suicide Bill in Scotland could permit people who want to end their lives in accordance with the law to have their request granted over Zoom. A consultation document on the proposed Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill released last...
The Scottish Government has announced plans that would likely vastly increase the number of late-term abortion services. Following the release of abortion statistics showing the second highest abortion numbers ever in Scoltand, the SNP Scottish Government has released...
This morning the results of the Scottish Government’s consultation on whether to allow ‘DIY’ home abortions permanently were published, showing that only 17% of submissions supported making ‘DIY’ home abortions available permanently in Scotland. 61% of those who...
Almost 90% of people in Ireland believe that women should be offered information about alternatives before proceeding with abortion, according to new research. The Irish pro-life group, Pro Life Campaign, has reported that “89% of people [in Ireland] support women...
The Labour Party in Ireland has adopted a policy to support making abortion legal up until birth without any restriction. The policy was announced and voted through last Saturday 13 November, during their annual party conference. Since the repeal of the Eighth...
Almost 1,500 women did not go through with their abortion after an initial consultation and a three-day consideration or waiting period, newly released data in Ireland has revealed. As part of a response to a parliamentary question in Ireland last week, it was...
A couple from Dublin who were told to have an abortion because their daughter has spina bifida are now fighting to give their “miracle girl” the best opportunities in life. At their thirty-week scan, Claire McDaid and Jay Needham were told that their daughter had a...
New polling shows that only 35% of MPs support introducing assisted suicide to the UK. The polling, released by YouGov today, shows that only 35% of MPs support a law change to allow “doctors to assist in the suicide of someone suffering from a terminal...
Abortion statistics released by Public Health Scotland show that the number of abortions carried out in Scotland reached the second-highest number on record in 2020. This significant rise in abortions has accompanied the Scottish Government introducing a temporary...
This year marks the 53rd anniversary of the Abortion Act coming into effect in 1968 – 6 months after it received Royal Assent. Since then, a staggering 9,675,153* unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion across England, Wales and Scotland — more...
Between January and June 2020, there were 55 selective foetal reduction abortions whereby, in cases of multiple pregnancies - twins or triplets, one or more was aborted to ‘reduce’ the number of babies in the womb. The data was published by the Government in response...
Thousands joined the first in-person March for Life UK since May 2019 this Saturday. CLICK HERE TO...
Life Charity co-founder Nuala Ann Scarisbrick has died peacefully at home with her husband Jack and their two daughters Emma and Sarah by her side on Tuesday 31 August. Nuala was the driving force behind the building of the client support services Life operates today...
Thousands are expected to join the first in-person March for Life since May 2019. Thousands took part in March for Life UK’s online Lifestream 21 event last June. In 2019, almost 5,000 people gathered outside the UK Parliament in London. However, in response to the...
As thousands of pro-lifers walked through the centre of Vienna in this year's March For Life, the police had to step in numerous times to prevent highly aggressive protesters from disrupting the peaceful march. Last weekend, on Saturday 16 October, 2,500 pro-lifers...
A couple from Dublin who were told to have an abortion because their daughter has spina bifida are now fighting to give their “miracle girl” the best opportunities in life. At their thirty-week scan, Claire McDaid and Jay Needham were told that their daughter had a...
A man who stabbed a pregnant woman multiple times in Belgium will not be prosecuted for the death of her unborn baby. On Monday, in the Belgian province of Liège, a man, named only as Aslan, stabbed a woman numerous times in the face and neck after an argument broke...
A new report from the Regionale Toetsingscommissie Euthanasie (RTE), who annually analyse all deaths by euthanasia in the Netherlands, found that 6,938 deaths by euthanasia occurred during 2020, the highest yearly figure on record, almost 4.3% of the year’s total...
The Latvian Parliament has rejected a public petition that called for the legalisation of euthanasia. On 25 March, after a citizens initiative collected 10,000 signatures, the Saeima (Latvian Parliament) voted 49 to 38 against legalising euthanasia in Latvia. Saeima...
The Constitutional Court in Portugal has rejected as unconstitutional a euthanasia bill approved by its parliament in January. The law, passed in January this year, required the approval of the President to enter into force. The President asked the Constitutional...
As thousands of pro-lifers walked through the centre of Vienna in this year's March For Life, the police had to step in numerous times to prevent highly aggressive protesters from disrupting the peaceful march. Last weekend, on Saturday 16 October, 2,500 pro-lifers...
A couple from Dublin who were told to have an abortion because their daughter has spina bifida are now fighting to give their “miracle girl” the best opportunities in life. At their thirty-week scan, Claire McDaid and Jay Needham were told that their daughter had a...
A man who stabbed a pregnant woman multiple times in Belgium will not be prosecuted for the death of her unborn baby. On Monday, in the Belgian province of Liège, a man, named only as Aslan, stabbed a woman numerous times in the face and neck after an argument broke...
A new report from the Regionale Toetsingscommissie Euthanasie (RTE), who annually analyse all deaths by euthanasia in the Netherlands, found that 6,938 deaths by euthanasia occurred during 2020, the highest yearly figure on record, almost 4.3% of the year’s total...
As New Zealand’s euthanasia legislation comes into effect, anti-euthanasia campaigners have launched an initiative to begin the path towards repealing the legislation and protecting the vulnerable. After becoming the first country in the world to introduce assisted...
A baby born alive after an unsuccessful late-term abortion was “left gasping without medical assistance for two hours before dying” at a hospital in New Zealand. The incident follows the passing of the Abortion Legislation Bill introduced by Prime Minister...
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...
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...
The New South Wales Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet, has been selected to take over as Premier of Australia’s largest state, and is coming under media scrutiny for his pro-life views. New South Wales is Australia’s largest state by population size and is home to over 8.1...
Queensland has become the fifth state in Australia to pass legislation that permits assisted suicide and euthanasia. Despite public opposition, the Queensland Parliament passed a Bill to introduce assisted suicide and euthanasia to the State vote. 61 MPs voted in...
Marie Stopes Australia will close their abortion clinic in Newcastle, New South Wales. The organisation - the largest provider of abortion services in the Hunter Region up until now - stated that "physical clinics in regional areas are no longer financially viable"....
Marie Stopes Australia has closed four of its Queensland clinics. The clinics, located in Townsville, Rockhampton, Southport, and Newcastle employed over 40 staff and performed around 5,000 abortions annually. Managing director Jamal Hakim described the closures...
A Special Rapporteur for the United Nation’s Human Rights Council has described abortion as “a radical act of self-love”. Last year, the Special Rapporteur, Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng from South Africa, released a statement in relation to President Trump’s ‘gag rule’ that...
Lawmakers in Malawi have rejected a proposal to permit abortion up to birth. On 11th March, Mathews Ngwale, head of the Parliamentary Health Committee in Malawi, advanced a bill which would expand abortion access considerably. In late February, the Guardian...
“Anytime that Africans are asked, the answer is always unanimous: we do not want abortion”. Filmmaker and social activist Obianuju Ekeocha along with many people from across Africa, have made a public plea to the Biden Administration to not fund abortion in Africa....
Filmmaker, author, and social activist Obianuju Ekeocha has called out the United States for repealing the Mexico City Policy which ensured that federal funding was not spent on abortions outside the United States. President Joe Biden will revoke the policy put in...
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An abortion campaigner has died after a legal medical abortion in Argentina, after the country legalised abortion on demand on 30 December 2020. Twenty-three year old Maria de Valle Gonzalez Lopez died earlier this month on 11 April, four days after being legally...
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...
Canadian professional ice hockey player, Evander Kane, has been accused of promising to pay a woman $3 million to get an abortion. The ice hockey player who plays for the San Jose Sharks is being sued by a woman for $6 million after Kane allegedly promised to pay $3...
A large group of MPs and peers have heard of the dangers of introducing assisted suicide and euthanasia from a group of doctors from countries that have already legalised assisted suicide or euthanasia. The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well event,...
A Canadian mother has asked the Canadian government to extend euthanasia to children so a lethal injection might be given to her son. Karie-Lyn Pelletier, from L’Islet, says she will wish to end the life of her four-year-old son, Abel, if his condition becomes worse....
A Private Members Bill proposed in the Canadian Parliament that would outlaw sex-selective abortion, has received its second reading. An e-petition signed by over 10,000 Canadians in support of the Bill has also been tabled in the Canadian House of Commons. Bill...
Thai politicians have rejected a proposal to introduce abortion on demand through to 24-weeks, but proceeded with introducing abortion on demand up to 12 weeks. The new law, which came into effect today, will make abortion legal throughout the first trimester of...
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...
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A mother of two was found dead two days after emailing an assisted suicide centre in Switzerland. According to her family, Hannah Jean Elizabeth Martin had suffered with mental health issues since she was thirteen. At only 25, the mum of two was found dead in her home...
As New Zealand’s euthanasia legislation comes into effect, anti-euthanasia campaigners have launched an initiative to begin the path towards repealing the legislation and protecting the vulnerable. After becoming the first country in the world to introduce assisted...
Baroness Meacher has not taken her assisted suicide Bill to a vote, following mass opposition from Peers with over 60 peers speaking against the Assisted Dying Bill during its Second Reading today in the House of Lords. The assisted suicide lobby would likely have...
Ahead of the assisted suicide debate in the House of Lords this Friday, the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, has spoken out against a change in the law arguing that “the bill to legalise assisted dying gets the balance wrong between individual autonomy and the...
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A mother of two was found dead two days after emailing an assisted suicide centre in Switzerland. According to her family, Hannah Jean Elizabeth Martin had suffered with mental health issues since she was thirteen. At only 25, the mum of two was found dead in her home...
As New Zealand’s euthanasia legislation comes into effect, anti-euthanasia campaigners have launched an initiative to begin the path towards repealing the legislation and protecting the vulnerable. After becoming the first country in the world to introduce assisted...
Baroness Meacher has not taken her assisted suicide Bill to a vote, following mass opposition from Peers with over 60 peers speaking against the Assisted Dying Bill during its Second Reading today in the House of Lords. The assisted suicide lobby would likely have...
Ahead of the assisted suicide debate in the House of Lords this Friday, the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, has spoken out against a change in the law arguing that “the bill to legalise assisted dying gets the balance wrong between individual autonomy and the...
A striking thing about the American abortion debate is how little abortion itself is actually debated. The sensitivity and intimacy of the issue, the mixed feelings of so many Americans, mean that most politicians and even many pundits really don’t like to talk about...
The UK may have left the European Union at the beginning of this year, but in one important aspect, our country has been disconnected from our continental cousins for much longer. Whilst the UK has permitted abortions in most cases up to 24 weeks since 1990, (before...
This week, MPs must take a stand against discrimination towards babies with disabilities As a mother of a daughter with Down’s syndrome and spokesperson for Don’t Screen Us Out – a group of over 17,000 people with Down’s syndrome, their families,...
Spina bifida: that’s what the midwife told me the bump could be on the baby on the ultrasound screen. It was the first time I’d seen my daughter. It could affect her mobility and independence on a huge spectrum, anywhere from hardly being able to notice it, to her not...
A striking thing about the American abortion debate is how little abortion itself is actually debated. The sensitivity and intimacy of the issue, the mixed feelings of so many Americans, mean that most politicians and even many pundits really don’t like to talk about...
The UK may have left the European Union at the beginning of this year, but in one important aspect, our country has been disconnected from our continental cousins for much longer. Whilst the UK has permitted abortions in most cases up to 24 weeks since 1990, (before...
This week, MPs must take a stand against discrimination towards babies with disabilities As a mother of a daughter with Down’s syndrome and spokesperson for Don’t Screen Us Out – a group of over 17,000 people with Down’s syndrome, their families,...
Spina bifida: that’s what the midwife told me the bump could be on the baby on the ultrasound screen. It was the first time I’d seen my daughter. It could affect her mobility and independence on a huge spectrum, anywhere from hardly being able to notice it, to her not...
