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Last week, Pope Leo XIV affirmed the Catholic Church’s pro-life teaching to over 100 ambassadors from different nations at the Vatican.
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A study in the United States has found that over 5 per cent of women who had a chemical abortion took mifepristone again after a failed abortion attempt, raising more concerns about the safety of the drug. 865,727 abortions using mifepristone between 2017 and 2023 were analysed by the Ethics…
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White smoke rose. The bells rang. The world met Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost. And while the media scrambled to Google his biography, many of us in the pro-life movement paused with curiosity: who is this man, and will he be a lion for life in a…
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An unprecedented study in the United States has found that abortion pills are 22x more dangerous than previously supposed or admitted to. The groundbreaking study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center analysed data from insurance claims relating to 865,000 chemical abortions between 2017 and 2023, making it the largest…
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Pope Francis died at the age of 88 on Easter Monday having just blessed babies as his last public act in St Peter’s Square.
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A UN committee has called for the repeal of assisted suicide in Canada for people who have no terminal illnesses, especially the disabled which, a report concluded, is discriminatory towards disability. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Committee published its report last month and recommended…
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Left image: Alliance Defending Freedom UK, Right image – Wikimedia Commons: VancePortrait Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been warned by President Donald Trump’s State Department that there will be no trade deal with the United States if the UK insists on criminalising pro-life free speech. The US is observing the…
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A large network operating an illegal sex-selective abortion racket has been uncovered in south India, leading to several arrests. Health officials uncovered the extensive sex-selective abortion network in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu through a decoy operation. They were first alerted to the criminal activity by a botched abortion…
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A “baby box” for abandoned babies in Croatia has been called a “Trojan horse” by pro-abortion groups outraged by the initiative of a pro-life group and Catholic nuns. “We are continuing an ancient Croatian tradition of preserving the value of human life”, said the Bethlehem-Zagreb Association responsible for the box.…
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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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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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Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on 14 February, US Vice-President JD Vance censured Western governments’ curtailing of free speech.
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Pope Francis has spoken out against the “pathological individualism” of abortion.
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President Donald Trump has reinstated the Mexico City Policy prohibiting abortion funding overseas and issued pardons to pro-life activists who were convicted during the Biden administration. Within days of his inauguration in Washington D.C., President Trump issued pro-life presidential orders, including the reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy that prohibits…
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Vice-President JD Vance attended the event in person and addressed the crowd.