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A Baptist pastor is due to appear in court this week after he delivered a sermon on God’s love inside a buffer zone in Northern Ireland.
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Left image – Wikimedia Commons: Ana Redondo 2023 (cropped) Spanish Minister of Equality Ana Redondo said she supports making abortion a right in the Spanish Constitution when “the appropriate and necessary conditions are met to be able to do so”, following the example of France. Last year, on 4 March,…
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Employees in the UK are only eligible for parental bereavement leave if they or their partner have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth after 24 weeks of pregnancy, but this may soon change. Speaking to MPs, Business Minister Justin Madders said that he will be looking into extending the leave to…
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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has taken a neutral position on assisted suicide for the first time in its history, despite opposition among GPs increasing in recent years. A poll of GPs found that only a third of GPs support legalisation. A poll of thousands of UK GPs…
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Researchers attending the Infant Consciousness Conference, 28 February to 1 March, in New York have concluded that recent evidence indicates that fetal consciousness might begin before 24 weeks gestation. The event was sponsored by New York University. A survey of conference delegates assessing evidence of fetal consciousness found that forty-seven…
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President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has pledged to ban the use of aborted baby remains being used by research funds. Nominee Jay Bhattacharya was speaking at a Senate committee hearing into his nomination when he said he’d reinstate the prohibition that had…
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BMA consultants have voted in favour of a motion stating that assisted suicide is not healthcare and presents “serious moral hazards to consultants”.
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The MP committee scrutinising Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill has voted to scrap the High Court judge safeguard that would have required a higher level of judicial sign-off.
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Labour MPs have indicated that they may use a government bill to push for abortion to be removed from criminal law.
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Despite being gravely ill in hospital, Pope Francis called on all people to take up the cause of the unborn around the world.
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Actress Ione Skye, 54, has claimed in a new memoir that Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers, paid for her to have an abortion when she was 17.
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Gove said that praying silently inside a buffer zone could not be considered “genuine intimidation”.