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...
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...
An amendment to the Public Order Bill that would criminalise those who offer help and support to women, as well as those who peacefully pray, within 150m of an abortion clinic did not go to vote in the House of Commons. The amendment, introduced by Labour...
The Northern Ireland Secretary, Brandon Lewis, has indicated that he now wants to impose ‘DIY’ abortion services on Northern Ireland, as he is set to take over the commissioning of abortion in the region. The original abortion framework that was imposed on Northern...
A new Bill to establish extended paid leave for parents of premature and sick babies will be debated in Parliament next month. SNP MP Stuart McDonald’s Neonatal Leave and Pay Bill was selected in the Private Members’ Bill ballot earlier this week, and seeks to ensure...
The Government has given provisional backing to a new Private Members Bill which intends to extend the period in which pregnant women and workers returning from parental leave are protected from redundancy. Labour MP for Barnsley Central, Dan Jarvis, was recently...
The Italian tenor and pro-lifer, Andrea Bocelli, delivered a rendition of Nessun Dorma at the...
A mum of twins, who were born at just 26 weeks, has captured the emotional footage of her other children meeting their tiny siblings for the first time. Kayleigh Lever, 33, couldn’t believe it when she and her partner Robbie, 35, found out they were expecting twins....
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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PRESS COMMENT – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE US Supreme Court abortion ruling Right To Life UK spokesperson, Catherine Robinson, said: “Today’s decision sees the overturning of an unjust law that has led to the deaths of over 62 million babies since 1973". “This decision...
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We just wanted to quickly share another excellent opinion piece written by Lord Alton in which he reflects on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade: https://thecritic.co.uk/reversing-a-tragic-half-century-of-lost-lives/ You have likely seen many...
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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...
Thousands of people have attended a March for Life in Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, as pressure mounts on doctors to perform abortions against their conscience. The March for Life on Saturday was held amidst controversy over a woman seeking an abortion because her child...
Today marks the 54th anniversary of the Abortion Act coming into effect in 1968 – 6 months after it received Royal Assent. Since then, a staggering 9,900,961* unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion across England, Wales, and Scotland — in 2020,...
A new study into autism is triggering fears that volunteers’ DNA will be used to create a test to ‘screen out’ autistic babies. The study, led by a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge alongside colleagues from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the...
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...
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...
Thousands of people have attended a March for Life in Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, as pressure mounts on doctors to perform abortions against their conscience. The March for Life on Saturday was held amidst controversy over a woman seeking an abortion because her child...
Today marks the 54th anniversary of the Abortion Act coming into effect in 1968 – 6 months after it received Royal Assent. Since then, a staggering 9,900,961* unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion across England, Wales, and Scotland — in 2020,...
A new study into autism is triggering fears that volunteers’ DNA will be used to create a test to ‘screen out’ autistic babies. The study, led by a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge alongside colleagues from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the...
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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...
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...
A cross-party group of Parliamentarians including MPs, Peers and Westminster policymakers attended an event hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group (Pro-life APPG) on the evidence of survival rates for extremely prematurely-born babies, which was also...
Almost four out of five babies born prematurely between 22 and 28 weeks gestation survive to discharge from the hospital according to a recent study. The study, Mortality, In-Hospital Morbidity, Care Practices, and 2-Year Outcomes for Extremely Preterm Infants in the...
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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...
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...
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....
A Nigerian pastor ‘married’ the corpse of his late fiancée after she died after a brutal abortion he had reportedly forced her to undergo. Reverend Dr. Success Emeka Sunday, the founder of Life Transformation Praying Ministry, in Akwakuma, Nigeria, has been accused of...
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A new Bill is being introduced to the Parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales, which seeks to make sex-selective abortion illegal. The Bill, introduced by Fred Nile MLC in November, would amend the Abortion Law Reform Act 2019 to prohibit abortion on the...
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...
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A number of Peers have spoken out against the Government’s new regulations that give the Northern Ireland Secretary, Brandon Lewis MP, sweeping new...
The Northern Ireland Secretary, Brandon Lewis, has indicated that he now wants to impose ‘DIY’ abortion services on Northern Ireland, as he is set to take over the commissioning of abortion in the region. The original abortion framework that was imposed on Northern...
A Bill in Northern Ireland, which would allow for the introduction of censorship zones that will criminalise offers of assistance outside of abortion clinics in the region, has been delayed after the Attorney General for Northern Ireland raised concerns about...
New pro-life party Aontú saw significant gains in last week’s local elections in Northern Ireland, while the MLA who brought forward the Bill to introduce censorship zones around abortion clinics in Northern Ireland lost her seat. The local elections held last...
The UK’s largest abortion provider, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), is lobbying the Scottish Government to vastly increase the number of late-term abortion services in Scotland. The Scotsman reports that eight health boards in Scotland do not carry out...
Abortion statistics released by Public Health Scotland show that the number of abortions carried out in Scotland in 2021 were the fourth-highest number on record. The release of the abortion statistics follows the Scottish Government’s announcement that it will be...
A Scottish MSP has launched a Bill at Holyrood to introduce censorship zones outside abortion clinics in Scotland. If the Bill becomes law, potential jail sentences of up to two years would be introduced for people who attempt to influence or persuade someone seeking...
A campaign, launched to oppose the introduction of censorship zones outside hospitals proving abortions in Scotland, has released data from Police Scotland that shows that there is no evidence of harassment or intimidation at thirteen different locations performing...
The health service in Ireland has admitted that ‘DIY’ home abortions make it harder to identify coercion and abuse. In response to a parliamentary question from Carol Nolan TD on Thursday 3 March, the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland claimed that telemedicine...
A GP in Wexford, Ireland has said it is an “absolute scandal” that GPs are paid almost double for administering an abortion compared to management of pregnancy. Dr Grainne Pinaqui of The Faythe Medical Practice, told Independent.ie that GPs are only paid €250 for...
Newly released data has revealed that only 12% of GPs in the Republic of Ireland are providing abortions. While abortion can be legally performed in a GP surgery in Ireland up until the ninth week of pregnancy, only 405 out of 3,500 GPs actually provide abortions. The...
A couple whose son passed away at just five weeks old have welcomed a baby boy. Michelle and Clive Ross met 12 years ago and have been together ever since. Although they had both wished to start a family soon, Clive insisted they get married and get a house...
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...
Today marks the 54th anniversary of the Abortion Act coming into effect in 1968 – 6 months after it received Royal Assent. Since then, a staggering 9,900,961* unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion across England, Wales, and Scotland — in 2020,...
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...
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...
The US Supreme Court has struck down the Roe v Wade decision that previously legalised abortion across the United States in 1973. The 6-3 decision in ‘Dobbs v.s. Jackson Women’s Health Organization’ followed the early May leak of a draft opinion indicating that the...
As MPs put pressure on the Government to intervene following the overturning of Roe v Wade in the US, courageous pro-life MPs and Peers have spoken in support of the US Supreme Court’s decision. Following the overturning of the Roe Vs Wade legal decision last...
Pro-abortion groups have engaged in violent demonstrations as tensions rise in the U.S. following the Supreme Court’s decision to allow individual states to make their own abortion laws. Since the Supreme Court leak in May, violence from pro-abortion extremists has...
The US Supreme Court has struck down the Roe v Wade decision that previously legalised abortion across the United States in 1973. The 6-3 decision in Dobbs v.s. Jackson Women’s Health Organization followed the early May leak of a draft opinion indicating that the...
There has been a lot of media coverage of claims from ‘pro-choice’ organisations that a woman in Malta is being denied an abortion that would save her life. Much misinformation about abortion legislation in Malta has been spread online and it is important that the...
A number of Peers have spoken out against the Government’s new regulations that give the Northern Ireland Secretary, Brandon Lewis MP, sweeping new powers to impose expanded abortion access on Northern Ireland, raising grave concerns about the undermining of the Good...
The US Supreme Court has struck down the Roe v Wade decision that previously legalised abortion across the United States in 1973. The 6-3 decision in ‘Dobbs v.s. Jackson Women’s Health Organization’ followed the early May leak of a draft opinion indicating that the...
As MPs put pressure on the Government to intervene following the overturning of Roe v Wade in the US, courageous pro-life MPs and Peers have spoken in support of the US Supreme Court’s decision. Following the overturning of the Roe Vs Wade legal decision last...
Pro-abortion groups have engaged in violent demonstrations as tensions rise in the U.S. following the Supreme Court’s decision to allow individual states to make their own abortion laws. Since the Supreme Court leak in May, violence from pro-abortion extremists has...
The US Supreme Court has struck down the Roe v Wade decision that previously legalised abortion across the United States in 1973. The 6-3 decision in Dobbs v.s. Jackson Women’s Health Organization followed the early May leak of a draft opinion indicating that the...
At least 28 people in New Zealand have had their lives ended by euthanasia or assisted suicide in the three months since the practice became legal. The law that allows assisted suicide and euthanasia came into effect in November 2021 following a referendum on the...
8-month-old New Zealand baby Josiah Jones was born with a heart disease that affects one in every 100 babies born in New Zealand. He has already undergone three surgeries, the first just six days after his birth. Josiah will need more surgery once he turns three or...
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...
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...
Marie Stopes Australia has admitted that over 5% of medical abortions it provides fail to complete, meaning that 1 in 20 women have fragments of the baby and/or placenta remaining in their uterus following a medical abortion. These women will then require further...
A new Bill is being introduced to the Parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales, which seeks to make sex-selective abortion illegal. The Bill, introduced by Fred Nile MLC in November, would amend the Abortion Law Reform Act 2019 to prohibit abortion on the...
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...
A Nigerian pastor ‘married’ the corpse of his late fiancée after she died after a brutal abortion he had reportedly forced her to undergo. Reverend Dr. Success Emeka Sunday, the founder of Life Transformation Praying Ministry, in Akwakuma, Nigeria, has been accused of...
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....
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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...
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...
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 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...
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....
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...
Retail giant Amazon has announced that it will pay its US staff travel expenses for an abortion if the procedure requires them to travel further than 100 miles from their home. Reuters reports that Amazon told its staff that it would reimburse travel expenses for any...
South Korea’s smallest baby, Cho Gun-woo, was discharged from hospital last year after five months in intensive care. Gun-woo was born prematurely on 4 April 2021 about 15 weeks prior to his due date. At the time of birth, he was unable to breathe independently, as...
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...
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An attempt in the House of Lords to force the Government to introduce legislation on assisted suicide within a year of the Health and Care Bill becoming law has been defeated by 179 votes to 145. Lord Forsyth’s amendment to the Health and Care Bill was defeated...
The Constitutional Court in Italy has blocked a referendum seeking to make assisted suicide legal because it would remove protections for the weak and the vulnerable. On 15 February, the Constitutional Court said it “deemed the referendum question inadmissible”...
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...
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...
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An attempt in the House of Lords to force the Government to introduce legislation on assisted suicide within a year of the Health and Care Bill becoming law has been defeated by 179 votes to 145. Lord Forsyth’s amendment to the Health and Care Bill was defeated...
The Constitutional Court in Italy has blocked a referendum seeking to make assisted suicide legal because it would remove protections for the weak and the vulnerable. On 15 February, the Constitutional Court said it “deemed the referendum question inadmissible”...
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...
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...
By a margin of six to three, the United States Supreme Court has voted to overturn the nearly 50 year old ruling which imposed abortion laws across the United States. Since the Roe V Wade ruling the USA has been in a small club of nations, including China and North...
For the pro-life movement, the excitement about the possible reversal of the 49-year-old precedent of Roe v. Wade is real, even as we know the road ahead is uneven. There are strong views on both sides of this issue, and this historic moment arrives at a time when...
Censoring pro-life volunteers is problematic for the protection of human rights. So says Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister, who has come under pressure to roll out “buffer zones” — 150m areas on public streets where pro-lifers will be banned from offering prayer or...
Abortion has never been the hot political potato here compared to what it is in America. And in America it is now hot to the point of being volcanic. As you know, a draft decision from the US Supreme Court on reviewing the Roe versus Wade abortion decision made in...
By a margin of six to three, the United States Supreme Court has voted to overturn the nearly 50 year old ruling which imposed abortion laws across the United States. Since the Roe V Wade ruling the USA has been in a small club of nations, including China and North...
For the pro-life movement, the excitement about the possible reversal of the 49-year-old precedent of Roe v. Wade is real, even as we know the road ahead is uneven. There are strong views on both sides of this issue, and this historic moment arrives at a time when...
Censoring pro-life volunteers is problematic for the protection of human rights. So says Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister, who has come under pressure to roll out “buffer zones” — 150m areas on public streets where pro-lifers will be banned from offering prayer or...
Abortion has never been the hot political potato here compared to what it is in America. And in America it is now hot to the point of being volcanic. As you know, a draft decision from the US Supreme Court on reviewing the Roe versus Wade abortion decision made in...
