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The UK already has one of the most radical abortion laws in the world. Now, we are facing the biggest threat to the unborn child since 1967 – this autumn, the abortion lobby is set to attempt to introduce an extreme abortion proposal to Parliament which aims to remove almost all legal safeguards around abortion.

At this event, Lord Alton and Baroness O’Loan, champions of the cause in the House of Lords, will give their perspectives both into what is happening in Westminster, the counter-campaign which they are spearheading and what you can do stop this extreme law change. 

Complimentary light refreshments will be served after the talk.

Please do invite along friends and family using the Facebook event set-up here: https://www.facebook.com/events/424132034866373/

• Tuesday, 10 September 2019 from 18:45-20:00
• St Wilfrid’s Hall, Brompton Oratory, Brompton Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2RP

If you are New Zealand voter, please urgently email your MPs asking them to vote against this extreme abortion Bill on Thursday.

You can do this by following the easy steps below.

1. Quickly draft an email

It is far better if this email is in your own words, but if you don’t have time, we have written up a quick email below which you can use.

Please be charitable, polite and respectful in the messages you send to MPs.

Please contact as many MPs as you can. Individual emails are the most effective, especially if you are contacting your local MP.

IF WRITING YOU OWN EMAIL – PLEASE CONVEY THE FOLLOWING POINTS

• Vote NO to the Abortion Legislation Bill on Thursday.
• The Bill removes the current restrictions that only allow abortions after 20 weeks to save the life of the mother or to protect from serious harm and replaces them with loose and arbitrary criteria.
• In the small number of Australian states that have similar ‘abortion up to birth’ provisions these provision in practice have allowed for abortion to be available for any reason right through to birth.
• This would also, in practice, lift the current time limit for disability-selective abortions for babies including those with Down’s syndrome from 20-weeks, right through to birth.
• The Bill contains no substantial provisions to offer women alternatives to abortion.
• If you have a personal story about abortion, unplanned pregnancy, or anything else that might be relevant to this Bill then please share that too.
• Make it clear that this is an important issue to you and how the MP votes on Thursday will determine whether you vote for them in the next election.

IF DON’T HAVE TIME TO WRITE AN EMAIL, PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING COPY

Dear MP,

I am writing to you to ask you to vote NO to the Abortion Legislation Bill on Thursday.

The Bill removes the current restrictions that only allow abortions after 20 weeks to save the life of the mother or to protect from serious harm and replaces them with loose and arbitrary criteria.

In the small number of Australian states that have similar ‘abortion up to birth’ provisions, these provision in practice have allowed for abortion to be available, for any reason, right through to birth.

This would also, in practice, lift the current time limit for disability-selective abortions for babies including those with Down’s syndrome from 20-weeks, right through to birth.

As a voter, this is the most important issue to me, and how you vote on Thursday will determine who I vote for in the next election.

Please vote NO on Thursday.

2/ Use the following email lists to send your email to MPs

H/T to Voice For Life New Zealand for the email list below – find out more about them here.

Below are the email addresses of every MP in Parliament (just click on any MP below to send them an email).

If you have any issues with the email addresses below you can click here to download an Excel Spreadsheet of all the MP’s and their email addresses (just copy and paste from the spreadsheet into your email browser!)

 INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL MPs: 
Amy Adams, Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi, Maggie Barry, Andrew Bayly, David Bennett, Paula Bennett, Dan Bidois, Chris Bishop, Simon Bridges, Simeon Brown, Gerry Brownlee, David Carter, Judith Collins, Jacqui Dean, Matt Doocey, Sarah Dowie, Andrew Falloon, Paulo Garcia, Paul Goldsmith, Nathan Guy, Joanne Hayes, Harete Hipango, Brett Hudson, Nikki Kaye, Matt King, Tutehounuku (Nuk) Korako, Barbara Kuriger, Denise Lee, Melissa Lee, Agnes Loheni, Tim Macindoe, Todd McClay, Ian McKelvie, Mark Mitchell, Todd Muller, Alfred Ngaro, Simon O’Connor, Parmjeet Parmar, Christopher Penk, Maureen Pugh, Shane Reti, Scott Simpson, Nick Smith, Stuart Smith, Erica Stanford, Anne Tolley, Louise Upston, Tim van de Molen, Nicky Wagner, Hamish Walker, Nicola Willis, Michael Woodhouse, Jian Yang, Lawrence Yule,

 INDIVIDUAL LABOUR MPs: 
Kiri Allan, Ginny Andersen, Jacinda Ardern, David Clark, Tamati Coffey, Liz Craig, Clare Curran, Kelvin Davis, Ruth Dyson, Paul Eagle, Kris Faafoi, Peeni Henare, Chris Hipkins, Raymond Huo, Willie Jackson, Anahila Kanongata’a-Suisuiki, Iain Lees-Galloway, Andrew Little, Marja Lubeck, Jo Luxton, Kieran McAnulty, Nanaia Mahuta, Trevor Mallard, Stuart Nash, Damien O’Connor, Greg O’Connor, David Parker, Willow-Jean Prime, Priyanca Radhakrishnan, Grant Robertson, Adrian Rurawhe, Deborah Russell, Jenny Salesa, Carmel Sepuloni,Aupito William Sio, Jamie Strange, Jan Tinetti, Rino Tirikatene, Phil Twyford, Louisa Wall, Angie Warren-Clark, Duncan Webb, Meka Whaitiri, Poto Williams, Michael Wood, Megan Woods

INDIVIDUAL NZ FIRST MPs: 
Darroch Ball, Shane Jones, Jenny Marcroft, Ron Mark, Tracey Martin, Clayton Mitchell, Mark Patterson, Winston Peters, Fletcher Tabuteau

INDIVIDUAL GREEN MPs:  
Marama Davidson, Julie Anne Genter, Golriz Ghahraman, Gareth Hughes, Jan Logie, Eugenie Sage, James Shaw, Chloe Swarbrick

 INDEPENDENT: 
Jami-Lee Ross

 ACT PARTY: 
David Seymour

Right To Life UK is a campaigning and charitable organisation focused on life issues – abortion, assisted suicide and embryo research. We protect and defend the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death through our work across education, politics, the media and through a large network of people in constituencies across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

This autumn, the abortion lobby are planning to bring forward legislation that will remove almost all existing legal safeguards around abortion in England and Wales.

We will be facing the biggest battle on abortion since 1967.

Right To Life UK is looking for hard-working, passionate, professional individuals to join us to ensure we have the team in place to defeat these proposals. The team will then move onto a large push across media, public affairs and grassroots to deliver positive changes to policy and culture which will save lives and support women in unplanned pregnancies.

We are seeking both permanent staff and those who are available for a short-term contract for a fixed period of time ahead of the threat coming forward this Autumn (September/October).

How to apply

Send a covering letter and your CV to careers@righttolife.org.uk.

If you have any questions, please contact careers@righttolife.org.uk.

Applications close 6th August 2019 at 5pm.

Pro-abortion campaigner Baroness Barker and colleagues have brought forward a series of amendments (12,19, 21 and 24) to the Northern Ireland Bill in the Lords which will make Stella Creasy’s abortion amendments from the Commons far worse.

If these amendments pass, abortion on demand, for any reason, up to 28 weeks will be introduced to Northern Ireland. Thousands of lives are likely to be lost.

These amendments are likely to be voted on within hours.

Please use the function below to take 30-seconds to write to a Peer asking them to vote against the Barker amendments this afternoon.

Once you have emailed a Peer, please urgently get friends and family to do the same.