?The statistics were based on termination rates across the rest of the UK. A new report has estimated that the lives of 100,000 people have been saved because of Northern Ireland’s pro-life laws. The report was produced by Both Lives Matter, a new collaborative movement of individuals and organisati...

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"Inclusive" women’s march bans pro-life feminists New Wave Feminists say they plan to be at the march anyway. Organisers of the Women's March on Washington, which takes place the day after Donald Trump's inauguration, has dropped one of its partner organisations...for being pro-life.New Wave Fe...

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What does the political situation in Northern Ireland mean for abortion? Posted by Liam Gibson on    Stormont was plunged into crisis after the resignation of Martin McGuinness as deputy first minister last week. On Monday, the Assembly collapsed- elections will now be held to elect a new execut...

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Stormont was plunged into crisis after the resignation of Martin McGuinness as deputy first minister last week. On Monday, the Assembly collapsed- elections will now be held to elect a new executive on March 2.Liam Gibson, SPUC's Northern Ireland development officer, gives an insight into what this ...

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Classroom sex lessons: Opponents step up safe at school campaign calling on parents to resist compulsory ‘big brother’ plans to sexualise children and undermine millions of families   Campaigners are stepping up their fight against controversial plans to impose compulsory sex education in the na...

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Disability advocates: lax prosecution policy for assisted suicide "leaves vulnerable people at risk from dodgy doctors" Nikki Kenward, a former theatre manager, came up with the idea to have a giant judge puppet at the rally outside parliament opposing the Marris assisted dying bill in 2015. Ima...

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Safe at School calls on parents to resist compulsory "big brother" plans to sexualise children. Statutory sex education would deprive parents of the possibility of protecting their children by withdrawing them from SRE lessons. Image: istock SPUC Safe at School is launching a nationwide appeal ...

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Prof Warwick, chief executive of the RCM, signed the country's 30,000 midwives to a campaign to legalise abortion up to birth.  Cathy Warwick, the chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), will step down from the role and retire at the end of August 2017, it has been announced. Prof W...

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The Economist reports that although reported instances of people aiding someone in committing suicide have increased, the number of arrests and prosecutions have gone down. Euthanasia advocates Dignity in Dying say this means the law should be changed. The Economist asked all police forces and the ...

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Professor Scarisbrick has also been at the cutting edge of educational work about abortion. Life Charity has announced that founder and Chairman Prof Jack Scarisbrick has stepped down after 47 years. His wife Nuala, with whom he founded Life in 1970 in response to the 1967 Abortion Act, has also ste...

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?The technique could lead to hundreds of embryos being produced and destroyed to achieve one pregnancy. Image: Getty.  A new fertility procedure that could allow sperm and eggs to be made from people's skin may lead to "embryo farming" on a massive scale and drive parents to have only "ideal" childr...

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Culture of Life Africa has produced a video focusing on Marie Stopes International's operations in Africa. Scroll down to watch the video! The video, presented by Obianuju (Uju) Ekeocha includes an interview with a former worker of a Marie Stopes International (MSI) abortion clinic in Uganda, who cl...

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?The BPAS clinic in Richmond also potentially put women at risk, according to a CQC report in 2015. The NHS in Norfolk has announced that it has given its three-year contract for abortion and related services to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), replacing Marie Stopes International (MSI...

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On this day 50 years ago…SPUC was founded   Today, , is 50 years since the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), was formally established at a meeting at the Wig and Pen Club, Strand, in London.Two of the founding members are still stalwarts of the pro-life movement- Alan Smith, ...

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Dutch Health Minister: "Society should accept" screening out of children with Down’s syndrome Protesting the introduction of NIPT in Britain. Image: Don't Screen Us Out.   The comments were made as the Netherlands plans to introduce NIPT. Last week, members of the Dutch opposition party asked Mi...

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UN: Gendercide abortion means Armenia is heading towards "demographic crisis" Garik Hayrapetyan, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Armenia's assistant representative. Image: Yahoo News The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has warned that sex-selective abortion is seriously skewing the...

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Mr Conway's bid to legalise euthanasia through the courts is being supported by Dignity in Dying. ?Image: Annabel Moeller Noel Conway, a retired lecturer with motor neurone disease, is seeking a judicial review in the high court of the ban on assisted suicide.Mr Conway, 67, says he fears becoming "e...

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On Saturday 7 January, Dr Helen Watt of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre gave oral evidence to the Irish Citizens' Assembly, which has been charged with examining the 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution protecting the equal rights of unborn children and their mothers. It was the first debate on the...

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Jill Saward with her father, Canon Michael Saward, who was tied up and beaten while his daughter was raped. Image: Daily Mail. Jill Saward, who became a prominent sexual assault campaigner after she was raped during a burglary at her father's vicarage has died after suffering a stroke.Tributes are b...

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Paul Nuttall: "I've been pretty open about my views on abortion for many, many years." Image: BBC. Paul Nuttall, the new leader of the UK Independence Party, has said that he favours cutting the time-limit for abortion to 12 weeks.Mr Nuttall said on LBC Radio: "I've been pretty open about my views o...

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