The Government has announced plans to proceed with forcing expanded abortion services on Northern Ireland. In a written statement to Parliament, Brandon Lewis MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, laid out a formal timetable for forcing the commissioning of...
The International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) has announced plans to launch legal action against the UK Government regarding its decision to cut its foreign aid budget, which includes funding abortions in developing countries. On 13 July, MPs voted 333 to 298...
UK's largest abortion provider, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), has opened a new facility in Clapham, London which is offering consultations and medical abortions. In a statement from BPAS development manager Paula Abberley, it is explained that BPAS...
DUP Leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has warned that a UK Government intervention on abortion laws in Northern Ireland will damage the credibility of powersharing. His comments came ahead of an anticipated announcement from the Secretary of State for Northern...
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well held a public event on Thursday 15 July in which leading disability rights campaigners spoke powerfully against Baroness Meacher’s assisted suicide bill. The cross-party parliamentary group was formed earlier this...
An investigation has revealed that Chinese biotech company, BGI Group, is selling prenatal tests developed in collaboration with the country’s military and using them to harvest the genetic data of millions of women and their unborn children, which is being analysed...
An extremely premature baby, born at only 25 weeks and so fragile that he had to be placed in...
Hugo Hammond will become the first ever contestant with a disability to appear on the ITV reality program 'Love Island' when he enters the contest on 28 June. Under current UK law, abortions can be performed right up to birth for babies diagnosed as having the same...
Koh Sui Tin, a mother from Singapore, has recently spoken out about her experience of having a son with Down’s syndrome, and the influence doctors have in whether a woman has an abortion after a doctor informs her that there is a high probability of the child being...
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PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press release – Government proceeds with forcing expanded abortion on Northern Ireland 22 July 2021 - The Government has announced plans to proceed with forcing expanded abortion services on Northern Ireland. In a written...
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We wanted to quickly share some brilliant news with you. Diana Johnson MP has decided not to take her amendment (NC 55), that would have introduced abortion on demand, for any reason, up to birth, to a vote. Similarly, Rupa Huq MP has decided not to take her amendment...
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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...
Disability rights campaigner, Heidi Crowter, has told the Health Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly that the abortion legislation in the region “tells me and other people with Down’s syndrome that we are worth less than those without disabilities”. On the 11th...
This morning a new Bill that intends to prevent unborn babies with a ‘serious fetal impairment’ being aborted up to birth has been introduced to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Following the imposition of abortion on Northern Ireland by the Government in Westminster,...
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...
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Concerns have been raised by abortion supporters after scientists in Israel announced that they have managed to gestate more than a thousand mice in artificial wombs. At five days, the mice embryos were removed from their mothers’ wombs and placed in artificial wombs...
A baby born at 22 weeks weighing only 500g has just gone home after four months in hospital. Baby Sofia Viktoria Birina was due on the 1st February 2021, but instead was born in University Wishaw Hospital on the 2nd October 2020. Her mother, Egija, said: “Everything...
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...
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Koh Sui Tin, a mother from Singapore, has recently spoken out about her experience of having a son with Down’s syndrome, and the influence doctors have in whether a woman has an abortion after a doctor informs her that there is a high probability of the child being...
As the census in China shows a dramatic decrease in birth rate from earlier in the decade, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced that Chinese women would be permitted to have up to three children. China’s infamous one-child policy was introduced in 1979 in an...
Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor has claimed that she was encouraged to have an abortion by a doctor and a record executive. When O’Connor found she was pregnant, she visited a doctor on the advice of Nigel Grainge, an executive at her then-label Ensign...
A mum who refused an abortion after her son was found to have a heart defect at her 20 week scan, gave birth to a healthy baby whose heart condition completely vanished just five days later. In 2019, 23-year-old Amber Casey became pregnant with her second child. At...
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An attempt to hijack the UK Government’s flagship Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill with two extreme abortion proposals has failed, in a major pro-life victory. Diana Johnson MP has decided not to take her amendment (NC 55), that would have introduced abortion...
Diana Johnson MP has tabled an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that would introduce abortion on demand, for any reason, up to birth, to England and Wales. A cross-party group of 10 other MPs have also agreed to move the amendment. The...
A paper published last month by a leading medical journal estimated that 13.5 million or more baby girls were aborted in sex-selective abortions in India between 1987 and 2016. While India outlawed sex-selective abortion in 1994, it has remained a common practice and...
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...
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Former DUP leader and current agriculture minister, Edwin Poots, has said Northern Ireland’s First Minister Robin Swann and other devolved ministers...
The Government has announced plans to proceed with forcing expanded abortion services on Northern Ireland. In a written statement to Parliament, Brandon Lewis MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, laid out a formal timetable for forcing the commissioning of...
DUP Leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has warned that a UK Government intervention on abortion laws in Northern Ireland will damage the credibility of powersharing. His comments came ahead of an anticipated announcement from the Secretary of State for Northern...
The new deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Paula Bradley, has clarified her position on the commissioning of abortion services, following an interview broadcast last night. In the statement released this afternoon, Paula Bradley MLA said: “The issue...
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...
A new bill to legalise assisted suicide that has been launched in the Scottish Parliament has been strongly criticised by a disabled MSP. The Bill, proposed by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur, intends to legalise assisted suicide. An open letter in support of this...
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...
A woman from the Shetland Islands has spoken about her experience of being rushed to hospital in Aberdeen by plane to have her baby over two months early. Andy Thomson is now a happy, healthy three-year-old living with his parents on the Shetland Islands, north of the...
Ireland’s Minister for Health has indicated that the Irish Government does not have plans to introduce censorship zones outside abortion facilities. Since the referendum vote in 2018, there have been ongoing calls from the abortion lobby in Ireland to enforce...
A Bill that was seeking to introduce assisted suicide and euthanasia to Ireland has failed. The Private Members’ Bill was put forward in October 2020 by Gino Kenny TD and would have legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia for any Irish citizen over 18 who had been...
Figures released today by Ireland’s Department of Health reveal that 13,709 abortions have taken place in the Republic of Ireland since the country’s new abortion law was introduced on 1 January 2019. In May 2018 a referendum on whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment...
High-profile politicians from both the United Kingdom and Ireland have called on Gibraltar to ‘vote NO’ in the abortion referendum that will be held tomorrow. Eight members of the UK's House of Lords have signed a letter to the people of Gibraltar, asking them to...
This morning the abortion statistics for 2020 were released by the Department for Health and Social Care and show the highest number of abortions ever recorded in England and Wales, with 210,860 taking place in 2020, an increase of 1,341 from 2019. This significant...
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 than one...
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...
On 24 June Gibraltar will hold a referendum on whether to introduce a new abortion law to the...
On 29 May, thousands of pro-lifers rallied in the Croatian capital of Zagreb ahead of local and mayoral elections. Luka Hudincec, one of the rally’s organisers, told reporters: "It's our duty to advocate for protection of every human life, including unborn children”....
On 22 May, thousands of pro-life activists took to the streets of Rome for the 10th Marcia per la Vita (March for Life), with many more watching via livestream. Virginia Coda Nunziante, the President of the march’s organising committee, said “We affirm the...
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...
Politicians in Croatia have begun procedures to introduce strong pro-life legislation into the country that aims to protect life from conception. Currently, the law permits abortion up until 10 weeks’ gestation and allows abortion after that point in limited...
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 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...
Politicians in Croatia have begun procedures to introduce strong pro-life legislation into the country that aims to protect life from conception. Currently, the law permits abortion up until 10 weeks’ gestation and allows abortion after that point in limited...
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...
A new clinical trial conducted by a hospital in Sydney, Australia may change the way premature babies born with a common heart condition are treated. Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), the heart problem in question, is a condition in which excess blood flows to the...
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...
A new clinical trial conducted by a hospital in Sydney, Australia may change the way premature babies born with a common heart condition are treated. Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), the heart problem in question, is a condition in which excess blood flows to 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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
An Australian MP has drafted a Bill which would make it a legal obligation to provide medical care for babies born alive following an abortion. Currently in some Australian states, there is not a legal requirement to provide medical care to a baby that has been born...
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...
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 Bill that was seeking to introduce assisted suicide and euthanasia to Ireland has failed. The Private Members’ Bill was put forward in October 2020 by Gino Kenny TD and would have legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia for any Irish citizen over 18 who had been...
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well held a public event on Thursday 15 July in which leading disability rights campaigners spoke powerfully against Baroness Meacher’s assisted suicide bill. The cross-party parliamentary group was formed earlier this...
The Telegraph has published several Letters to the Editor expressing concerns over legalising assisted dying, including one from Dr Idris Baker, the National Clinical Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care in Swansea, Wales. Baroness Molly Meacher, Chair of the...
175 healthcare professionals have issued an open letter to Scotland’s Health Secretary Humza Yousaf, outlining their concerns over an assisted suicide bill tabled last month by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur. According to the BBC, a consultation on its contents is...
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A Bill that was seeking to introduce assisted suicide and euthanasia to Ireland has failed. The Private Members’ Bill was put forward in October 2020 by Gino Kenny TD and would have legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia for any Irish citizen over 18 who had been...
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well held a public event on Thursday 15 July in which leading disability rights campaigners spoke powerfully against Baroness Meacher’s assisted suicide bill. The cross-party parliamentary group was formed earlier this...
The Telegraph has published several Letters to the Editor expressing concerns over legalising assisted dying, including one from Dr Idris Baker, the National Clinical Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care in Swansea, Wales. Baroness Molly Meacher, Chair of the...
175 healthcare professionals have issued an open letter to Scotland’s Health Secretary Humza Yousaf, outlining their concerns over an assisted suicide bill tabled last month by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur. According to the BBC, a consultation on its contents is...
hen I heard of a move to update the law on assisted dying, I intuitively supported it; the intentions appeared so obviously reasonable, compassionate and humane. And I’m a scientist. So I set about researching whether it’s possible to ensure informed choice without...
What do you think is the better deal: three meals out with cockroaches scurrying round your feet and burnt food on the menu, or one meal out with a pool-side view, Michelin starred food, and great company? The second, of course, because I would imagine that you would...
Jessie O'Brien had a 10-month-old baby at home and was weeks into a new job when she became pregnant for the second time. "Going from one to two so soon was very daunting. I didn't have a great birth experience with my first either so that was still lingering in my...
In March 2020, temporary provisions were introduced to permit women in the first 9 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy to take both medical abortion pills at home. The pills are sent through the post, after a remote consultation with an abortion provider. Prior to...
hen I heard of a move to update the law on assisted dying, I intuitively supported it; the intentions appeared so obviously reasonable, compassionate and humane. And I’m a scientist. So I set about researching whether it’s possible to ensure informed choice without...
What do you think is the better deal: three meals out with cockroaches scurrying round your feet and burnt food on the menu, or one meal out with a pool-side view, Michelin starred food, and great company? The second, of course, because I would imagine that you would...
Jessie O'Brien had a 10-month-old baby at home and was weeks into a new job when she became pregnant for the second time. "Going from one to two so soon was very daunting. I didn't have a great birth experience with my first either so that was still lingering in my...
In March 2020, temporary provisions were introduced to permit women in the first 9 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy to take both medical abortion pills at home. The pills are sent through the post, after a remote consultation with an abortion provider. Prior to...
