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...
The Scottish Government has announced that it will be making ‘DIY’ home abortion permanently available without completing an in-depth evaluation of the safety of home abortion schemes - which they were due to report back on in autumn 2022, and despite only 17% of...
A bill to remove the two-child benefit cap has been drawn third in the House of Lords ballot. The Private Members’ Bill ballot in the House of Lords was drawn earlier today with the Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill coming third. Being so high up the...
A 31-year-old disabled woman in Toronto, Canada, is nearing final approval for an assisted suicide after her efforts to find housing appropriate for her disability were unsuccessful. The woman, identified in media reports by the pseudonym Denise, suffers from multiple...
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...
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...
A British charity is sending specialised birthing kits to help pregnant mothers in Ukraine who are...
A woman has given birth in an underground shelter in Ukraine representing a beacon of hope during the Russian invasion. On Friday evening, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an unnamed 23-year-old gave birth to baby Mia in a subway station while sheltering from a...
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...
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PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Scottish Govt. breaks promise to review safety of home abortion schemes, makes ‘DIY’ abortion permanent The Scottish Government has announced that it will be making ‘DIY’ home abortion permanently available without completing an...
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Next Tuesday (24 May) the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group will host an event at Parliament for MPs on the compelling case for reducing our abortion time limit. Dr John Wyatt, Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics, Ethics & Perinatology at...
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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...
A girl whose mother was offered an abortion after being told she had a spinal condition has defied the odds by being able to run, walk and climb. 20 weeks into her pregnancy, mum Bethan Simpson was told her child would be born with spina bifida and was offered a...
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...
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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...
A baby born at 23 weeks, at a weight of 1lb 7oz, has arrived home after an intense four-month fight for survival. Baby Bonnie was born to Rachel Morgan on 20 September 2021 at Leighton Hospital, Crewe. With her arrival coming 17 weeks prematurely, and due to...
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...
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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...
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...
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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 Bill in Northern Ireland, which would allow for the introduction of censorship zones that will criminalise offers of assistance outside of...
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...
Pro-life political party Aontú’s Mid Ulster candidate for the upcoming election in Northern Ireland has received a warm reception on the doorstep for her pro-life views. Alixandra Halliday, who represented Northern Ireland at the 2011 Miss Earth beauty pageant in...
Ahead of the election in Northern Ireland, an SDLP candidate has had to apologise to voters after she implied that those concerned about abortion should “go and get a life”. Sinéad McLaughlin, who hopes to hold her seat in the upcoming election on 5 May, complained...
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...
Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has committed to chairing a summit, run by abortion campaigners, on making it a criminal offence to offer support to women outside abortion clinics. Following the promptings of 15 pro-abortion groups, who signed a letter...
The Scottish Government has announced that it will be making ‘DIY’ home abortion permanently available without completing an in-depth evaluation of the safety of home abortion schemes - which they were due to report back on in autumn 2022, and despite only 17% of...
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...
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...
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...
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 world’s most premature twins, who were born two weeks before the UK abortion limit of 24 weeks, are now happy and healthy three-year-olds. Identical twins Kambry and Keeley Ewoldt hold the Guinness World Record for being the world’s most premature twins. The tiny...
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...
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...
Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has committed to chairing a summit, run by abortion campaigners, on making it a criminal offence to offer support to women outside abortion clinics. Following the promptings of 15 pro-abortion groups, who signed a letter...
A woman has been convicted after she pretended to be pregnant to obtain abortion pills, which were sent to her by the UK’s largest abortion provider BPAS after a phone consultation. She then handed the pills to her ‘lover’, who said he was planning to trick his...
The world’s most premature twins, who were born two weeks before the UK abortion limit of 24 weeks, are now happy and healthy three-year-olds. Identical twins Kambry and Keeley Ewoldt hold the Guinness World Record for being the world’s most premature twins. The tiny...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Recent polling shows that 69% of women believe that there should be significant restrictions on abortion. The polling found that 69% of women believe that abortion should be available, at most, during the first three months of pregnancy, allowed only in cases of rape,...
A leaked document apparently from the Supreme Court of the United States of America indicates the Justices’ intention to overturn the national abortion law, thereby allowing individual states to decide their own abortion laws. Abortion law in the US is principally...
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...
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...
News has leaked that the US Supreme Court plans to overturn the 1973 ruling on abortion known as Roe v Wade. Cue overreaction and misinformation. Scrapping Roe would not ban abortion, it would send the issue back to the states, where locals get to decide whether to...
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...
News has leaked that the US Supreme Court plans to overturn the 1973 ruling on abortion known as Roe v Wade. Cue overreaction and misinformation. Scrapping Roe would not ban abortion, it would send the issue back to the states, where locals get to decide whether to...
