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At least 30 MPs who voted for Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill are prepared to withdraw their support for the proposed law because they are concerned about coercion and the role of doctors in suggesting assisted suicide to patients. After a “disappointing” first vote in favour of the Leadbeater Bill,…
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A survey of 1,500 women has found that at-home chemical abortion is much more painful than they were told it would be by medics. Medics have been accused of “sugar-coating” the painful reality of chemical abortion after a poll found that around half of female respondents said that the pain…
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A couple who allegedly aborted their baby past the legal limit have been sentenced to community service and unpaid work for concealing the body of their stillborn baby in a rubbish bin. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that after “careful reflection” it had decided not to pursue the additional…
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Two parents have chosen life after being encouraged to abort one of two twins due to pregnancy complications. Both children were born and are doing well. Abigail Whitlock was five months pregnant with twin boys when they were diagnosed with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), meaning that the placenta was not…
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A proposal to establish an annual report into abortion complications in England is set to be blocked despite being approved at its second reading in the House of Lords. The Complications from Abortions (Annual Report) Bill was approved during its second reading in the House of Lords last week. However,…
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State-sanctioned assisted suicides in Canada reached a record high, with over 15,000 such deaths recorded in 2023. SPUC says that Canada offers a “clear warning” of where the UK is heading if the Leadbeater Bill, which passed a first vote last month, is approved. 15,343 people were killed by Medical…
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According to Japanese folklore, elderly relatives were removed to a mountain or one of Japan’s haunted forests and left to die, a practice called “ubasute”, or granny dumping. However widespread this prevaricating form of euthanasia really was, it appears that the UK might soon introduce a similar p
