Freedom to pray - freedom of expression’ campaign launched in bid to defend peaceful vigils outside abortion centres   Pro-life campaigners are launching a massive nationwide freedom campaign in a bid to stop councils using ASBO-style orders to ban peaceful prayer vigils outside abortion centres....

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Outside Ealing Town Hall, Betty tells the story of how pro-life counsellors gave her the help she needed to keep her son, who is now nine.  Ignoring the testimonies of women.Ealing Council yesterday voted to introduce a Public Space Protection Zone (PSPO) to ban pro-life vigils outside the Marie Sto...

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The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned the decision by Ealing Council to impose a Public Space Protection Order around the Marie Stopes Centre on Mattock Lane. Speaking from outside Ealing town hall, where a rally organised by mothers who have been helped by pro-life ...

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The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has spoken out against proposals by Ealing Council to stop campaigners staging peaceful protests outside abortion clinics.Ealing Council meets tomorrow (10 April) to decide whether to implement a Public Spaces Protection Order around the Marie...

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Governor David Ige signs Hawaii's assisted suicide bill into law. Hawaii has just become the eighth jurisdiction in the United States to legalise physician assisted suicide.Yesterday, Governor David Ige signed into law House Bill 2739, which "establishes a regulated process under which an adult resi...

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Clare Bremner: A significant number of women tell us they instantly regretted taking the first tablet Abortion reversal remains controversial, but why aren't women being told that babies can survive the first abortion pill? Dr George Delgado, the San Diego physician who invented the "abortion pill r...

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Approximately 4,000 eggs and embryos have been destroyed in the malfunction. The case raises ethical questions around IVF A couple whose frozen embryos were destroyed in a storage tank malfunction could seek action for wrongful death - if a judge rules that an embryo is considered a life.This is jus...

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?The authors dismiss the idea of a euthanasia slippery slope in Belgium.  But some are killed without consent A survey of end of life decisions among Flemish cancer patients has found that more than one in 10 deaths (10.4%) were from euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide. The study, published in...

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Sophie Walker of the Women's Equality party says treating miscarriage and chemical abortion differently is a "double standard" SPUC is challenging this policy in ScotlandThe Women's Equality Party has launched a new campaign calling for the second pill in a medical abortion to be available to be tak...

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Ealing council plan to ban peaceful pro-life vigils ‘ a dark day’ for Britain, democracy and freedom of speech   The world’s oldest pro-life group, the London-based Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, has condemned proposals by Ealing Council to stop campaigners staging peaceful prote...

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Attendees at the 2018 SPUC Youth Conference were urged to use all the information they had learnt to speak up for the unborn - to be pro-life heroes.On 9-11 March, nearly 150 young people gathered at the Yarnfield Park Conference Centre to hear from an array of expert speakers and to network and soc...

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ONS statistics shed light on conception and abortion rates.  Some useful statistics here New statistics show that 21.7% of all conceptions in England and Wales led to legal abortion in 2016.The Office of National Statistics' report Conceptions in England and Wales: 2016 found that the percentage of ...

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Protesters disrupt Oxford Students for Life's event on abortion in Ireland. Image: The Tricolour It makes some welcome conclusions A new report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights on free speech in universities has highlighted the censorship faced by pro-life student groups on campus.The Committ...

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Mandy Myers of BPAS has been advising the RCN on abortion policy. Is another Royal College about to back decriminalisation?The Mail on Sunday has revealed that a senior BPAS executive has been advising the Royal College of Nursing on its abortion policy.After a consultation with its members, the RCN...

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?The 40 Days for Life Nottingham team with John Smeaton outside the court. An injunction brought by Nottingham City Council against Dr John Edwards, organiser of the 40 Days for Life Vigil in Nottingham, has been lifted.After a secret hearing last Friday, Nottingham City Council served an injunction...

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An injunction brought by Nottingham City Council against Dr John Edwards, organiser of the 40 Days for Life Vigil in Nottingham, has been lifted.In a hearing this afternoon, Judge Owen ruled that there was no evidence base for the injunction, and that it be discharged. The attempt by the Council to ...

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The peaceful Nottingham vigil He was given no chance to defend himself After a secret court hearing last Friday, Nottingham City Council has served a no-notice injunction preventing Dr John Edwards, the local organiser of the Nottingham 40 Days for Life Vigil, from participating in the Vigil until f...

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Lord O'Shaughnessy referenced SPUC's legal challenge to the Scottish government's plans The full hearing will take place on May 14 and 15 SPUC's legal challenge to the Scottish Government's plan to designate the home as a place the abortion pill can be taken will have implications for the whole of t...

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In a move condemned by pro-life doctors and anti-euthanasia campaigners, Guernsey appears set to consider the legalisation of assisted suicide. In May the island’s elected representatives will decide if the proposal should be allowed to proceed. If given the go-ahead then an 18-month consultation ex...

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Down's Syndrome Heroes Posted by Alithea Williams on 21 March 2018   Happy World Down's syndrome day! It's always wonderful to see the positive reports about Down's syndrome, and the inspirational stories about people with the condition that fill the media at this time of year. Many of you will h...

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