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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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A Holyrood health committee is currently hearing evidence for and against the implementation of buffer zones in Scotland, with SPUC due to appear later this month.
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An anonymous petition has tried but so far failed to cancel the Manchester Pro-Life Society. SPUC, which has condemned the petition, continues to defend pro-life students’ legal right to free speech “currently under threat from intolerant students”.
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Dr Lord, medical director at MSI Reproductive Choices, told the BBC that he knows of up to 60 women facing criminal inquiries for suspected abortion crime in England and Wales since 2018, compared with almost zero before.
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Half of mothers who have abortions say that the cost of childcare is the main reason for aborting a child, a devastating survey has found, warning that “We’re running out of babies”.
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According to media portrayals, pro-life men and women who attend prayer vigils outside abortion facilities are religious lunatics, a quaint hangover from the Middle Ages when burnings at the stake were considered light entertainment – a twelfth-century Netflix minus the subscription fee.
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Happy New Year! 2024 has barely begun, but it’s already clear that this is going to be a busy year for the pro-life movement. Here’s a rundown of what to expect in 2024.
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Half of the neonatal cots in a North London hospital are empty as birth rates continue to plummet, says the NHS, as data released in Scotland reveals a 7.5% drop in births, while abortion reaches unprecedented levels around the UK.
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Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood abortion facility director, has explained that if people could see babies being “dismembered” in the womb, they’d oppose the “barbarity” of abortion.
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Roman Catholics in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland have voiced their strong opposition to the proposed imposition of buffer zones that would criminalise pro-life activity. “Religious freedom is under serious threat”, warned one Catholic group.
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On 18 October 22, MPs voted by 297 votes to 110 to add an amendment tabled by Stella Creasy MP introducing so-called buffer zones to the Public Order Bill. The Act was signed into law in May 2023, but Section 9, which concerns buffer zones, has not yet been put…
