Jade, 17, is another person who was born with disabilities as a result of drinking during pregnancy The Court of Appeal is currently discussing a test case of a mother who drank to excess during pregnancy, causing her daughter to be born with disabilities.The case was brought by a local authority on...

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Connie (left) and Mary (right) have been midwives for over 25 years, helping to deliver around 10,000 babies The case of the Glasgow midwives has been heard in the Supreme Court in London.Lawyers for Mary Doogan and Connie Wood defended the midwives' right to continue to work as Labour Ward Co-ordin...

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?Do you have what it takes to work at SPUC? SPUC wishes to recruit a full-time Despatch Officer (37½ hours p.w.), whose role will be to open daily post and prepare all outgoing post.The duties include: photocopying and collating campaign material to be packed with the help of volunteers. keeping rec...

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Kenyans suspect that WHO and UNICEF have been using vaccines laced with antigen Vaccines used in Kenya have been laced with an antigen which can cause miscarriage and sterilisation, it is alleged. The vaccine has been administered to 2.3 million women and girls by the World Health Organisation (WHO)...

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News, Job vacancy for Despatch Officer at SPUC SPUC wishes to recruit a full-time Despatch Officer (37½ hours p.w.), whose role will be to open daily post and prepare all outgoing post. The duties include: photocopying and collating campaign material to be packed with the help of volunteers. keep...

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Let them eat cake Posted by Rhoslyn Thomas on 11 November 2014 Cardiff University’s Students For Life group is one of the most active and long-running university pro-life societies in the UK.They are a great example of a group who have been active in the wider pro-life movement, attending local...

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RU486: What they don't want you to know Posted by Rhoslyn Thomas on 10 November 2014 I recently visited Ljubljana, capital city of Slovenia, to help a newly established group called Bozji Otroci protest against the bi-annual conference for the International Federation of Abortion and Contracept...

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Two senior midwives from Glasgow are going to the Supreme Court to defend their right to work as midwives while not being involved in abortions on the labour ward where they have been employed as Labour Ward Co-ordinators. The case will be heard on Tuesday 11 November.Mary Doogan and Connie Wood are...

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Proposals to close schools which fail to promote homosexuality are an attack on every parent in the country, according to Safe at School, a parents' rights campaign.Safe at School was responding to comments by Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, to The Sunday Times. The newspaper reports that Mrs...

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Is there no space for the father in the typical modern family? A newly-erected statue in the centre of Birmingham has portrayed the typical modern family as consisting of two women, two born children and an unborn child.The statue was designed by Gillian Wearing, whose brief was to select and portra...

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Brittany Maynard became famous after filming a video outlining her plans to kill herself A young woman dying from cancer who moved to Oregon in order to commit suicide has killed herself. Brittany Maynard swallowed a fatal dose of barbiturates on Saturday evening surrounded by family members.Mrs May...

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Safe at School has condemned plans to sink £2 million into dealing with alleged homophobic bullying in schools.(See "Government to fund campaign to stamp out anti-gay bullying in schools", Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11193812/Government-to-fund-campaign-to-stamp-ou...

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Safe at School has produced new guidelines for primary schools entitled Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) for today's primary school children https://www.spuc.org.uk/campaigns/safeatschool/sreprimary201409This new publication promotes good practice in primary schools where parents are the main e...

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Parents from Welford Primary school in Birmingham are presenting 150 letters to Councillor Brigid Jones calling on her to ask the governing body at the school to remove a controversial teaching programme, Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools (CHIPS).  The parents are angry that CHIPS was introd...

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Belfast: Criticism by Amnesty International of Northern Ireland’s legal protection for unborn children has been described as arrogant and anti-democratic by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) the UK's largest pro-life organisation.SPUC was responding to an opinion poll, commiss...

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Philip Davies is the Conservative MP for Shipley Philip Davies, Conservative MP for Shipley, has said that all sex education should be dropped in schools.Mr Davies said: "My job as a parent is that I'm supposed to bring up my children with my particular values and the values I think are important to...

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?"You must assume everyone is conscious until you've proved otherwise, not the other way around." A mother who suffered a stroke and 'locked-in-syndrome' (where the patient can hear, think and feel but not move) has spoken of her distress after hearing medical staff and relatives discussing the pos...

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Mr Fidyka took his first steps six months after the surgery A man who was left paralysed by a knife attack is now able to walk using a frame, thanks to treatment using stem cells taken from his nose cavity, transplanted into his spinal cord.The surgery was carried out on Darek Fidyka by surgeons in ...

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The new law introduces a system of 'deemed consent' Students in Wales are being informed of a new organ donation law by an advertising campaign from the Welsh government.The new law introduces a system of 'deemed consent', whereby anyone who has not explicitly removed themselves from the organ dona...

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Baby Ethan has now fully recovered from his treatment A South African couple discovered that a benign tumour had grown on their unborn baby boy’s left lung, taking up 50% of the his lung space and causing fluid on the lungs, resulting in cardiac failure.However, the parents were offered a life-savin...

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