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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.
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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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Nearly 500 medics have signed an open letter opposing the proposed decriminalisation of abortion in anticipation of a Parliamentary debate on Dame Diana Johnson’s pro-abortion amendment.
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On Thursday evening, 29 February, members of the Manchester Pro-Life Society had to be given a police escort out of a meeting held inside the Students’ Union building that was surrounded by aggressive demonstrators.
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SPUC is urging supporters to submit a complaint to the BBC following its biased reporting on an assisted suicide committee report.
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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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Hundreds of young pro-lifers gathered at SPUC’s annual Youth Conference to champion the pro-life cause and learn how to make abortion unthinkable.
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Dr Jonathan Lord, medical director at MSI, has admitted that DIY abortion, otherwise known as “pills by post”, is to blame for the “unprecedented” rise in investigations of women suspected of having illegal abortions.
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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”.