News, Top story: BBC promises review of explicit sex film for children The BBC has promised to review a sex education video it produced, following concerns within government. Nick Gibb, the schools minister, said that "Parents are justifiably worried materials like this are being used in lessons...

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News, Top stories: UK pilot study concludes that 13-year-olds should be able to buy birth control pills at pharmaciesA pilot study in south-east London has concluded that girls as young as 13 should be allowed to buy birth control pills at pharmacies. A report found that 46% of the girls involve...

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Lynne Featherstone, Britain's Equalities Minister will promote so-called 'family planning' in a visit this week to Africa.The government announced that 'family planning' was one of the issues at the "top of the agenda" for the visit. [Home Office, 24 April]The current British government has made sup...

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A pilot study in south-east London has concluded that girls as young as 13 should be allowed to buy birth control pills at pharmacies.A report found that 46% of the girls involved in the pilot had not used the pill before. [Guardian, 25 April]Anthony Ozimic of SPUC commented: "Some years ago similar...

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44 years... Posted by Jack Francis on 26 April 2012 Tomorrow is the 44th anniversary of the Abortion Act...44 years of the legally sanctioned killing of babies.44 years of mothers being denied the care and support they need.44 years of trained medics using their skills to kill, rather than cure...

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Yeehaw watch out for "American tactics and American money" Posted by Dan Blackman on 25 April 2012 The bastions and luminaries of the abortion lobby in the UK never tire of warning us about the dangers of American influence.Whether it's "American tactics" ... "American money" ... "the Americani...

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Marie Stopes: The other side of the story Posted by Matthew McCusker on 24 April 2012 Back in 2008 Royal Mail caused controversy by honouring birth control pioneer Marie Stopes with a postage stamp, thus placing her alongside the many great national figures who have received this honour in the ...

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Letter to the Guardian reveals the sad effects of abortion for parents Posted by Dan Blackman on 23 April 2012 The Guardian is well known for being the mouthpiece of the abortion lobby in the UK.Many of the leading figures amongst the pro-death campaign have columns with the Guardian, such as: ...

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Midwives launch appeal in defence of conscience rights : Two Glasgow midwives who were told in February that they had to supervise abortions, regardless of their conscientious objection, have launched an appeal against the decision. The judge in the Scottish Court of Session told the midwives, Mary ...

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Kerbside vigils against abortion to be held throughout UK Wednesday, : Pro-life campaigners in over 50 towns and cities in the UK will this month give silent witness to unborn babies killed in the 44 years since the implementation of the Abortion Act, as well as to the hurt caused to women by aborti...

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Medics led the way in the nineteenth century pro-life movement Posted by Jack Francis on 18 April 2012 Pro-life groups often compare the great struggle for justice for the unborn with other historical social justice issues, most popularly slavery.It came as something of a surprise to me that as...

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The Neo-Malthusian League and the origins of the birth control movement Posted by Matthew McCusker on 17 April 2012 We have previously considered the influence of the ideas of Thomas Robert Malthus on the pro-abortion movement.In this post we will consider the way in which the population contro...

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A London medical practice is to deliver morning-after pills by courier.Women wanting the pills will fill out an online form, to be assessed by a doctor, and the pills will be delivered within two hours.Norman Wells of the Family Education Trust condemned the plan, saying: "[Y]oung people have been l...

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Two American bioethicists have argued that some parents have a moral obligation to use IVF and embryo testing to create only disease-free children.In a piece in the American Journal of Bioethics, Janet Malek of East Carolina University and Judith F. Daar of Whittier Law School in California, support...

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News, Top stories: Morning-after pill to be delivered by courier in London A London medical practice is to deliver morning-after pills by courier. Women wanting the pills will fill out an online form, to be assessed by a doctor, and the pills will be delivered within two hours. Norman Wells of t...

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News, Top stories: UK clinic to offer ovarian tissue freezing for first time in UK A London clinic plans to offer ovarian tissue freezing for the first time in the UK. The procedure involves removing part of one ovary, freezing it and then re-implanting it at a later date. It is being proposed f...

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An American pro-abortion group is to fund placements at British abortion centres for British medical students.The placements, funded by Medical Students For Choice (MSFC) will last for two weeks. Anthony Ozimic of SPUC told the Guardian newspaper: "This reflects the desperation of the abortion indus...

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A London clinic plans to offer ovarian tissue freezing for the first time in the UK.The procedure involves removing part of one ovary, freezing it and then re-implanting it at a later date. It is being proposed for both medical and social reasons. [Telegraph, 16 April]Pro-life commentators have obje...

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There has been a huge increase in assisted suicide in Oregon and Switzerland, says a UK doctor.Peter Saunders, head of the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF), said that the latest figures suggest that since 1998 assisted suicides have risen by 450% in Oregon and by 700% in Switzerland.Dr Saunders ar...

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Irish pro-life groups unite to oppose proposed abortion bill Posted by Jack Francis on 13 April 2012 Youth Defence reports that hundreds of women and children from throughout Ireland yesterday joined pro-life groups Youth Defence, Life Institute and Precious Life at the Dáil (the principal cham...

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