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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.
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A top United States senator has warned that funds allocated for combating AIDS have been used to carry out abortions abroad. The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has saved an estimated 25 million lives around the world. Although PEPFAR is prohibited from funding abortion, a recent…
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Abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide once again in 2024, more than cancer, HIV, traffic fatalities and suicide combined. Total deaths from abortion were 45.1 million unborn babies. Abortion accounted for just over 42% of human deaths around the world in 2024. The death toll of 45.1 million…
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Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada since 2015, has announced that he will resign his position in October, and the leadership of the Liberal Party. SPUC has slammed his “disastrous” pro-abortion premiership. “I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister after the party selects its next leader…
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Pope Francis called on people around the world to reject abortion and assisted suicide in his New Year message at the Vatican. At New Year’s Day Mass in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, Pope Francis called on all people to “respect the dignity of human life from conception to…
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State-sanctioned assisted suicides in Canada reached a record high, with over 15,000 such deaths recorded in 2023. SPUC says that Canada offers a “clear warning” of where the UK is heading if the Leadbeater Bill, which passed a first vote last month, is approved. 15,343 people were killed by Medical…
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SPUC has warned that MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill could be expanded within just five years, and veterans suffering from PTSD could be threatened, as has already happened in Canada.
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One in four babies are born alive following abortions at 23 weeks gestation, a study published in a peer-reviewed journal has found, showing that such cases are more common than previously supposed.
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A golden statue of Simone Veil (1927-2017), the French politician famous for legalising abortion in France in 1975, was unveiled at the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris on Friday.
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It looks increasingly likely that pro-abortion Kamala Harris will be the Democratic Party presidential nominee after the announcement that U.S. President Joe Biden will not seek re-election in November.