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The first vote on MP Kim Leadbeater’s proposed assisted suicide bill will take place on 29 November.
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In their bid to select a new leader to replace Rishi Sunak, Conservative MPs have wittled down the candidates from six to two.
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MPs will vote on an assisted suicide bill for England and Wales for the first time in nine years. SPUC has called on Parliament to reject the proposed law, which “poses an unacceptable mortal threat to vulnerable citizens.
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SPUC’s one-day conference in London on Saturday was a resounding success after delegates heard moving testimonies from guest speakers and SPUC staff about abortion’s life-denying ethic. “This is the moral issue of our age”, said SPUC CEO John Deighan.
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Spain is considering granting special protection to apes while ignoring the human rights of aborted unborn babies.
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A US woman has become the first person to be killed by the Sarco Pod, an invention of the infamous Dr Death, leading to arrests in Switzerland.
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The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) held a protest today at Holyrood against Scotland’s “illiberal” buffer zones law, which came into effect on the same day.
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Adam Smith-Connor, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, is on trial at Poole magistrates’ court for the alleged “crime” of silently praying for his dead son outside an abortion facility in Bournemouth, England.
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The Government has announced when buffer zones will be enforced around abortion clinics in England and Wales. Section 9 of the Public Order Act will be in force from the 31 October 2024.
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Assisted suicide will save the Canadian health care system up to $136.8 million a year, claims a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. SPUC has slammed the suggestion as “heartless utilitarianism” that must be rejected.
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A so-called “citizens’ jury” that ruled in favour of an assisted suicide and euthanasia law for the UK “fails the impartiality test”, the campaign group Care Not Killing has warned.
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An elderly British couple has signed up for Dr Death’s suicide pod in Switzerland because they no longer trust the NHS to take care of them in their infirmity.
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A new poll in the United States suggests a lack of public knowledge about the process of IVF that destroys thousands of embryos every year.
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Former President Alberto Fernández has been accused of coercing his partner into an abortion she didn’t want.
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Wes Streeting, the Secretary of State for Health & Social Care, worries that legalising assisted suicide in the UK will cause patients to “take their own life thinking they were a burden on others”.