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Mary Ann (pictured) works in a nursing home in Surrey and is vehemently opposed to a change in the law to legalise assisted suicide.
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The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee has backed MSP Gillian Mackay’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill. SPUC has slammed the move as a betrayal of women in crisis pregnancies.
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Support in Scotland for assisted suicide in non-terminal cases continues to decline, recent polling shows, as the nation considers legalisation that SPUC says is “out of step with public opinion”.
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Pro-life activity around abortion facilities in Scotland is “consistent with the concept of an abortion vigil, rather than a protest”, research commissioned by the Scottish Government has concluded.
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Last week, Labour MP Stella Creasy announced that she was tabling an amendment that would decriminalise abortion up to twenty-four weeks. She responded angrily on social media to claims that she was in favour of abortion up to birth.
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The European Parliament has voted in favour of adding abortion access to the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights.
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A Belgian health insurance boss has championed assisted suicide because it will save taxpayer money and free up hospital and care home spaces.
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Cross-party MPs have called on the Home Office to protect the free speech of pro-life activists put on trial for allegedly breaching buffer zones around abortion facilities in England.
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87.26% of unborn babies prenatally diagnosed with Down’s syndrome in England and Wales (and Crown Dependencies) were aborted in 2021, according to NHS data released last month.
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55% of British adults state that the abortion of healthy unborn babies should remain illegal over 24 weeks gestation, the current limit, new polling finds. SPUC has called on MPs to respect the “decisive” poll.
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A 28-year-old Dutch woman suffering from depression is to be euthanised after being told by her psychiatrist that there’s nothing else that can be done to treat her.
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Doctors have carried out an abortion on the ‘wrong’ child after mixing up mothers in a Prague hospital.
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MSP Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide bill for Scotland, tabled today, has been slammed by SPUC as constituting a “death warrant” for the vulnerable.
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MEPs are set to debate adding abortion to its Charter of Fundamental Rights following a proposal by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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A patient who received assisted suicide drugs last year in the US state of Oregon took 137 hours to die, nearly six days, an annual report has stated, while also revealing that many people choose death because they cannot afford healthcare.
