A mum who battled sepsis during her pregnancy gave birth to a baby girl who was the same size as an iPhone. Carly Roberts, from West Derby in Liverpool, began labour when she was just 28 weeks pregnant. Carly, who was on holiday in Anglesey, was rushed to Bangor...
A Prescot dad has recounted his story of feeling "helpless" during the birth of his premature daughter. In April 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Antony McCoag's pregnant partner Kodie, 30, woke him feeling unwell and "scared" in the middle of the night....
A woman whose baby lived for two days after being born with Edwards’ syndrome is raising money for the charity that helped her family throughout this difficult period. Jessica, a York-based arboriculturist who became pregnant after she and husband Simon had previously...
A mum has described losing her twin girls during early labour as "absolutely crushing". 26-year-old Events Manager Lauren Napier from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, had been preparing to welcome her twin babies in October 2021 with her husband, 32-year-old Warehouse...
Baby Rhianwen Rees, born weighing just 2lb, has had a “rollercoaster” life so far, according to her mum. Born 13 weeks early via emergency Caesarean and weighing only 2lb 4oz, Rhianwen has suffered two collapsed lungs and two brain bleeds. Parents Jessica Hamblin and...
A young mum with cancer who considered ending her life at a Dignitas clinic has shared her inspiring story after receiving specialist treatment. Estelle Wignall, 27, from Wigan was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2017 after experiencing symptoms for years. Estelle...
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...
press release
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...
take action
We just wanted to share some good news with you. The Committee Stage debate on Lord Forsyth’s assisted suicide amendment to the Health and Care Bill has just ended and he has decided not to take his amendment to a vote. There was a really good turnout of Peers who...
Featured
disability
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...
time limits
A premature baby born 15 weeks early and weighing only 730g has overcome countless setbacks and made it home for Christmas. Freya-Rose, daughter to Kimberley Melvin, and her partner James Gallacher, was born on 16 July and weighed as little as a bag of crisps. Classed...
The Royal Preston Hospital in Lancashire have issued happy birthday wishes to its youngest ever premature baby to be discharged. Stella Haigh was born 18 weeks early at just 22 weeks and 3 days, weighing just 480g. After being born, Stella spent five months on the...
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...
abortion pressure
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...
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...
sex-selective abortion
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...
Use your skills and help save lives. Your voice matters.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has given its top award to a nurse who opened a new abortion clinic in Belfast. Sexual health nurse Nicola Bailey...
The Government in Westminster is coming under increasing pressure to commission abortion services in Northern Ireland despite the devolution of abortion power in the region and the majority of sitting Northern Ireland MPs in Westminster opposing it. In a debate in...
A Bill to stop abortion up to birth for disabilities like Down’s syndrome, cleft lip and club foot has failed to pass after self-proclaimed “pro-life” politicians and parties fail to vote it through. The Severe Fetal Impairment Abortion (Amendment) Bill, introduced...
The Severe Fetal Impairment Abortion (Amendment) Bill has passed Committee Stage at the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Bill proposes removing the current grounds in the abortion regulations that were imposed on Northern Ireland by the British Government in 2020, which...
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...
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...
A Bill, which will make fetal pain relief before an abortion a legal requirement if the “pregnancy concerned may have reached or exceeded 20 weeks of pregnancy” or “it is otherwise likely that pain would be caused to the foetus during or arising from the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Be part of building a society where human life is valued and protected at all stages.
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...
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...
A baby born with her intestines outside of her body was able to go home after 110 days in hospital. In October last year, baby Autumn Warner from Kamloops, Canada, was able to return home after almost four months in the hospital. She was born nine weeks early and...
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....
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...
End of life
Following a late-night debate in the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Forsyth chose not to take his assisted suicide amendment to the Health and Care Bill to a vote at this stage. Several Peers from across the political spectrum spoke strongly against the amendment that...
A young mum with cancer who considered ending her life at a Dignitas clinic has shared her inspiring story after receiving specialist treatment. Estelle Wignall, 27, from Wigan was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2017 after experiencing symptoms for years. Estelle...
Belgium has been criticised for its radical euthanasia law during a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland. The UNHCR is undergoing a “Universal Periodic Review”, in which member states' human rights records are scrutinised...
Parliamentarians have uncovered a number of assisted suicide horror stories and huge problems with the assisted suicide Bill being debated in the House of Lords. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Dying Well, chaired by Danny Kruger MP, has compiled a...
Join other leading publications from around the world who syndicate our articles
Following a late-night debate in the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Forsyth chose not to take his assisted suicide amendment to the Health and Care Bill to a vote at this stage. Several Peers from across the political spectrum spoke strongly against the amendment that...
A young mum with cancer who considered ending her life at a Dignitas clinic has shared her inspiring story after receiving specialist treatment. Estelle Wignall, 27, from Wigan was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2017 after experiencing symptoms for years. Estelle...
Belgium has been criticised for its radical euthanasia law during a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland. The UNHCR is undergoing a “Universal Periodic Review”, in which member states' human rights records are scrutinised...
Parliamentarians have uncovered a number of assisted suicide horror stories and huge problems with the assisted suicide Bill being debated in the House of Lords. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Dying Well, chaired by Danny Kruger MP, has compiled a...
When faced with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome — a 37-week scan showing a hole in her baby’s heart –41-year-old Tracy Seager was urged by doctors to have an abortion. However, Tracy had been born with a hole in the heart that healed naturally at age 11. She and...
The public are being “scared” into supporting assisted suicide by hearing about cases of end-of-life suffering, doctors have warned. A survey by the Association of Palliative Medicine (APM), published on Wednesday, found doctors are increasingly concerned that there...
It is time to defend the role of parliamentary whips as they are assailed on all sides. The term comes from hunting, where the whippers-in only rarely use their whips. Their main purpose is to keep the pack together. If they are not permitted to do so, the pack falls...
Having joined the House of Lords during Covid restrictions, I have had a strange introduction. Many of the more established members talk about “getting back to normal”. I have had no experience of “normal”, especially in the context of the House of Lords but I have...
When faced with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome — a 37-week scan showing a hole in her baby’s heart –41-year-old Tracy Seager was urged by doctors to have an abortion. However, Tracy had been born with a hole in the heart that healed naturally at age 11. She and...
The public are being “scared” into supporting assisted suicide by hearing about cases of end-of-life suffering, doctors have warned. A survey by the Association of Palliative Medicine (APM), published on Wednesday, found doctors are increasingly concerned that there...
It is time to defend the role of parliamentary whips as they are assailed on all sides. The term comes from hunting, where the whippers-in only rarely use their whips. Their main purpose is to keep the pack together. If they are not permitted to do so, the pack falls...
Having joined the House of Lords during Covid restrictions, I have had a strange introduction. Many of the more established members talk about “getting back to normal”. I have had no experience of “normal”, especially in the context of the House of Lords but I have...
