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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.
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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.