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Kim Leadbeater MP has proclaimed that her assisted dying bill will have “the world’s strongest safeguards”. Yet as the weeks go by, the news coming out of the Committee scrutinising this bill doesn’t match Ms Leadbeater’s claim. Those of us who are worried that legalising assisted suicide will send us…
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MPs reviewing the Leadbeater Bill at Committee stage have voted against opt-outs for hospices that do not want to provide assisted suicide. MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for England and Wales proposes to legalise assisted suicide for terminally ill adults given six months to live.…
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Ben & Jerry’s celebrated National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day on 10 March with a post on X that subsequently went viral, stating that the ice cream company “stand[s] with abortion providers today and every day”. “Abortion care providers are being threatened across the country”, the post continued. It linked to…
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MP Kim Leadbeater has admitted for the first time that the eligibility criteria of her proposed assisted suicide bill could be expanded in the future. “That could happen”, she confessed on LBC on 21 March. Challenged by LBC’s Natasha Clark on whether the proposed law would create a “slippery slope”,…
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Almost 4,000 people were killed by euthanasia in Belgium in 2024, a rise of nearly 17% in twelve months, according to official statistics showing that a minor (aged under 18) was also killed, bringing the total of euthanised children since 2014 to six. There were 3,991 euthanasia cases in Belgium…
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A man from Ontario, Canada has been found guilty of murdering his pregnant girlfriend who refused to abort their unborn child. Wazhir Gafoor was found guilty of first-degree murder this month in a case of abortion coercion. The body of his girlfriend, Christina Yadram, was found in woodland in 2021,…
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Police Scotland has scrubbed over 12,000 criminal investigations because they required excessive manpower, a report has revealed, despite several police officers arresting an elderly grandmother who allegedly breached a buffer zone in Glasgow in February.
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Over 250 GPs have signed a letter to The Times condemning their Royal College’s decision to adopt a neutral position on assisted suicide as “grossly misrepresentative of GPs’ attitudes to assisted dying”.
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Labour MP Naz Shah was forced to leave fellow MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide committee yesterday because her hearing aids ran out of charge after 15 hours of use. Shaz had raised her disability needs “repeatedly” before.
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Last week, Labour MPs threatened to use the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill to achieve the cherished goal of the pro-abortion lobby – full decriminalisation of abortion. If we weren’t so used to this almost monomaniacal desire to push “abortion rights” as far as they can go, we might find…
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Ten academics are challenging a journal’s decision to retract their papers that studied the risks of abortion. It was announced this week that researchers had filed an arbitration demand against Sage Publications after it retracted three of their papers. The research, published in the Sage journal Health Services Research and…
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Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) council spent nearly £150,000 prosecuting a man and woman who allegedly participated in pro-life activity in a buffer zone in its local authority. BCP council spent £93,000 taking Adam Smith-Connor to court last October after he prayed in silence for his dead son within a…