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Australia’s governing Labor Party has voted to support the removal of federal legal barriers preventing euthanasia consultations from taking place by telephone or video call, while also changing its constitution to allow MPs a conscience vote on future voluntary assisted dying legislation. The measures were approved at the Australian Labor…
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Image Source: Pigama / Shutterstock Cardinal Robert Sarah has accused the European Union of using international agreements, foreign aid and trade to pressure African nations into accepting abortion and LGBT ideology. Speaking at the European Parliament in Brussels on 15 July, the Guinean cardinal warned that Europe was engaging in…
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Image Source: Church of England | Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Rochester has spoken out against his own MP’s renewed attempt to legalise assisted suicide, warning that the proposed law could fundamentally change society’s relationship with elderly and vulnerable people. The Right Reverend Jonathan Gibbs criticised the latest Bill…
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Image source: Shutterstock | House of Keys, Tynwald, Douglas, Isle of Man The Isle of Man has formally approved legislation legalising assisted suicide, becoming only the second Crown Dependency to change its law despite ongoing concerns about the Bill’s safeguards and its compatibility with human rights protections. The legislation has…
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Image source: Shutterstock On 7th September 2026 a Westminster Hall debate for MPs will be held in the Houses of Parliament. They will be discussing the ‘Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth’ petition that has garnered more than 112,000 signatures. This petition was created by Adam Frisby,…
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Image Source: uhcw.nhs.uk A baby born at just 22 weeks and three days has been discharged from hospital after spending months in neonatal care, highlighting the remarkable advances in the treatment of extremely premature babies and the amazing strength of the boy. Baby Isaac weighed just 1lb 3oz at birth,…
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Image Source: Shutterstock A senior German politician has resigned after admitting that he and his husband became parents through surrogacy in the United States, despite having spent years defending Germany’s ban on the practice. Jens Spahn, parliamentary leader of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a former health…
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Image Source: House of Commons The dangerous assisted suicide Bill has been reintroduced to Parliament, in an almost identical form to the legislation debated during the previous parliamentary session. Labour MP Lauren Edwards published her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on the day MPs left Westminster for the…
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France has moved a step closer to legalising assisted suicide after the country’s National Assembly voted to approve controversial legislation despite the French Senate rejecting the Bill on three separate occasions. The legislation, one of President Emmanuel Macron’s flagship social reforms, would create a legal right to assisted suicide for…
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Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP) has inadvertently fanned the flames of the country’s abortion debate after introducing new family support measures that recognise unborn children when calculating eligibility for certain benefits. The legislation, introduced by the PP government in the Madrid region, allows expectant parents to apply for some family…
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Image Source: Shutterstock A same-sex couple in Canada has launched a lawsuit against the surrogate mother who carried their son after she refused their request to abort the baby when doctors identified a cleft lip and a possible heart defect during pregnancy. The case, filed in Ontario Superior Court, has…
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Image Source: Shutterstock Amnesty International has come under fire after publishing a report branding the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), alongside dozens of Christian, pro-life and gender-critical organisations, as part of the “anti-rights movement” in the UK. The report, A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the…
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From left to right: Ben Weller, Monika Uzkalnyte, Joel Tate, Honor Roberts, Yana Lazczsiw So far more than £33,000 has been raised for SPUC after our annual sponsored event. On Monday 6th July members of SPUC’s staff team and Youth finished a 52-mile four-day walk starting at the tomb of…
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France’s Senate has rejected a Bill to legalise assisted suicide for the third time, although supporters remain on course to introduce the law after the legislation returns to the National Assembly, where there is stronger backing. On Tuesday, senators voted by 169 votes to 164, with 11 abstentions, in favour…
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Image Source: Shutterstock Six years after the Republic of Ireland legalised abortion new figures published by the Health Service Executive (HSE) paint a stark picture of how dramatically the nation has changed. Almost 47,000 abortions have taken place since services began in January 2019, with pro-life groups warning that what…