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The Northern Ireland Health Minister is under pressure from the political party Sinn Féin to roll out an abortion regime imposed by the British Government across Northern Ireland. Since the imposition of abortion onto Northern Ireland by the British Government,...
Northern Irish MP Carla Lockhart has been appointed the Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group in Westminster. Lockhart has been an outspoken pro-life MP since she won her seat in 2019. During her maiden speech she said: “I feel it is imperative...
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 recently published article in an academic journal has found a “widening” scope and failing safeguards in the provision of euthanasia in Belgium. The article, “Euthanasia in Belgium: Shortcomings of the Law and Its Application and of the Monitoring of Practice”,...
A GP in Northern Ireland has expressed support for a Bill which would prevent abortion on the grounds of severe fetal impairment, such as Down’s syndrome and cleft palate. In the Belfast Telegraph, Dr Sarah Harris described the current law which permits abortion up to...
2020 has seen New Zealand’s lowest birth rate on record according to latest statistics. New Zealand’s total fertility rate fell in 2020 down to 1.61 births per woman compared to 1.72 in 2019. This rate is well below the population replacement rate of 2.1. In 2020,...
A girl born two days after the abortion limit is now flourishing and attending primary school....
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 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...
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PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Right To Life UK announces new board line-up as organisation undertakes major transformation and growth programme Right To Life UK has today announced the appointment of two high-profile trustees, former Labour MP Rob Flello and...
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Thank you to everyone who has made a submission to the Scottish and English consultations on ‘DIY’ home abortion. I am making contact now on the final consultation that is being run on this issue, this time by the Welsh Government. The Welsh Government’s consultation...
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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,...
People with learning disabilities have been given ‘do not resuscitate’ orders during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have caused avoidable deaths. Last year, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found “evidence of unacceptable and inappropriate DNACPRs [Do Not Attempt...
The UK Government is to introduce a new controversial screening test to identify whether an unborn baby has a high probability of having Down’s syndrome, despite the fact that existing data suggests that this will likely see an increase in abortions of babies with...
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...
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,...
People with learning disabilities have been given ‘do not resuscitate’ orders during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have caused avoidable deaths. Last year, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found “evidence of unacceptable and inappropriate DNACPRs [Do Not Attempt...
The UK Government is to introduce a new controversial screening test to identify whether an unborn baby has a high probability of having Down’s syndrome, despite the fact that existing data suggests that this will likely see an increase in abortions of babies with...
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...
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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...
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...
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The Northern Ireland Health Minister is under pressure from the political party Sinn Féin to roll out an abortion regime imposed by the British Government across Northern Ireland. Since the imposition of abortion onto Northern Ireland by the British Government,...
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...
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2020 has seen New Zealand’s lowest birth rate on record according to latest statistics. New Zealand’s total fertility rate fell in 2020 down to 1.61 births per woman compared to 1.72 in 2019. This rate is well below the population replacement rate of 2.1. In 2020,...
An MP in Northern Ireland has criticised the Government in Westminster for imposing a new abortion regime on Northern Ireland that legalises sex-selective abortion. In the wake of a debate concerning the availability of abortion throughout the region, DUP MP Carla...
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...
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Over 1,500 people with Down’s syndrome and their families have signed an open letter urging political leaders in Northern Ireland to vote for a law...
Northern Irish MP Carla Lockhart has been appointed the Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group in Westminster. Lockhart has been an outspoken pro-life MP since she won her seat in 2019. During her maiden speech she said: “I feel it is imperative...
A GP in Northern Ireland has expressed support for a Bill which would prevent abortion on the grounds of severe fetal impairment, such as Down’s syndrome and cleft palate. In the Belfast Telegraph, Dr Sarah Harris described the current law which permits abortion up to...
A mum from Northern Ireland has recorded a moving song as her son turns one in order to help spread a positive message about Down’s syndrome. Peter and Sara did not know that their son had Down’s syndrome until after he was born. Sara said: “The scary thing was we...
Councillors in Edinburgh have decided to back the campaign to legally enforce censorship zones around an abortion centre in the capital, and calls for national enforcement have received increased support from a number of politicians in Scotland. The ‘#BackOffScotland’...
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 serial domestic abuser in Dundee told a victim of his abuse that he would kill her baby if she did not have an abortion. Shaun Wilson, 22, has violently abused a number of women and girls since he was 14. Dundee Sheriff Court was told on Tuesday 2 February that...
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...
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...
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...
There were almost 100,000 abortions in Spain in 2019 according to the latest figures from the Spanish Ministry of Health. The figures, released in December last year, reveal that in 211 abortion centres across the country in 2019, 99,149 abortions took place. This is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2020 has seen New Zealand’s lowest birth rate on record according to latest statistics. New Zealand’s total fertility rate fell in 2020 down to 1.61 births per woman compared to 1.72 in 2019. This rate is well below the population replacement rate of 2.1. In 2020,...
2020 has seen New Zealand’s lowest birth rate on record according to latest statistics. New Zealand’s total fertility rate fell in 2020 down to 1.61 births per woman compared to 1.72 in 2019. This rate is well below the population replacement rate of 2.1. In 2020,...
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....
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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 recently published article in an academic journal has found a “widening” scope and failing safeguards in the provision of euthanasia in Belgium. The article, “Euthanasia in Belgium: Shortcomings of the Law and Its Application and of the Monitoring of Practice”,...
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...
A recently published article in an academic journal has found a “widening” scope and failing safeguards in the provision of euthanasia in Belgium. The article, “Euthanasia in Belgium: Shortcomings of the Law and Its Application and of the Monitoring of Practice”,...
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...
When the health secretary published the “approval of a class of places” provisions under the Abortion Act last March, he ushered in the greatest change to the law since the legislation was enacted in 1967. And within the last week, the Royal College of Obstetricians...
Last week, Paul Givan MLA, introduced his Severe Foetal Impairment Abortion (Amendment) Bill, onto the floor of the Assembly. It is a Bill which should be supported by all those who care about the disabled in our society and strive to create a better rights-based...
Campaigners plan a new move to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland this year. The Netherlands, which legalised euthanasia in 2001, should offer a cautionary tale. My country expected a fall in backdoor euthanasia and the stopping of incremental extension by pinning...
There are two contemporary preoccupations that are effectively at odds in the abortion laws of Britain and Northern Ireland. One principle is that a woman’s right to have an abortion must always be accommodated and celebrated. The other is that the diversity we are...
When the health secretary published the “approval of a class of places” provisions under the Abortion Act last March, he ushered in the greatest change to the law since the legislation was enacted in 1967. And within the last week, the Royal College of Obstetricians...
Last week, Paul Givan MLA, introduced his Severe Foetal Impairment Abortion (Amendment) Bill, onto the floor of the Assembly. It is a Bill which should be supported by all those who care about the disabled in our society and strive to create a better rights-based...
Campaigners plan a new move to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland this year. The Netherlands, which legalised euthanasia in 2001, should offer a cautionary tale. My country expected a fall in backdoor euthanasia and the stopping of incremental extension by pinning...
There are two contemporary preoccupations that are effectively at odds in the abortion laws of Britain and Northern Ireland. One principle is that a woman’s right to have an abortion must always be accommodated and celebrated. The other is that the diversity we are...
