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Crustaceans have more statutory protection under UK law than unborn children. That was the message to the House of Lords from pro-life Conservative Peer Lord Daniel Moylan as he introduced the Foetal Sentience Committee Bill for its Second Reading on Friday, 22 March. In what at times threatened to become…
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Patricia was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) in 2023, with the onset of symptoms in 2021. The average life expectancy for MND is 2-5 years. So far, the disease seems to be making slow progress in Patricia, but she is deteriorating. Her legs don’t work, and she has significant…
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Sir Liam Fox MP proposes to stop abortions of unborn babies with Down’s syndrome after 24 weeks, as current law treats disabled children like “second-class citizens”.
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Yesterday, 19 March, pro-lifers from around the UK gathered outside the Houses of Parliament in London to peacefully demonstrate against abortion decriminalisation. MPs and other passersby got the chance to hear SPUC’s strong message in response to Dame Diana Johnson’s pro-abortion amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill.
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Former MP Nadine Dorries has recalled the horror of an abortion she witnessed when she saw a baby boy “blinking” and “gasping for breath”.
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A pro-assisted suicide group in France has caused outrage after it used an image of Princess Diana’s wrecked car in which she was fatally wounded in 1997.
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Women working for NHS England who suffer miscarriages within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy are now entitled to 10 days paid leave, while partners will have five days. One in four pregnancies result in miscarriages.
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Bishop John Keenan has told a Holyrood committee on buffer zones that balancing human rights “shouldn’t mean that something which is a legitimate point of view should be made invisible”.
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SPUC has told a Holyrood committee hearing evidence for and against buffer zones that such legislation is unnecessary and is based on a false assumption about pro-life vigils, and it would set an “alarming” precedent for freedom of thought and expression.
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A retired medical scientist will be tried for breaching a “buffer zone” after holding a sign offering to talk to women outside an abortion facility in Bournemouth.
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A representative for Police Scotland has told a Holyrood committee that laws already exist to deal with any criminal behavior outside abortion facilities, adding that it hasn’t identified any such crimes.
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The French Parliament this week voted to make abortion a constitutional right, making it the first nation in the world to guarantee the right to kill unborn children up to 14 weeks.
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Nearly 500 medics have signed an open letter opposing the proposed decriminalisation of abortion in anticipation of a Parliamentary debate on Dame Diana Johnson’s pro-abortion amendment.
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On Thursday evening, 29 February, members of the Manchester Pro-Life Society had to be given a police escort out of a meeting held inside the Students’ Union building that was surrounded by aggressive demonstrators.
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SPUC is urging supporters to submit a complaint to the BBC following its biased reporting on an assisted suicide committee report.
