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Pictured, from left to right: SPUC’s Development Officer, Katherine Hampton, Palliative care consultant, Dr Dominic Whitehouse, SPUC’s Parliamentary Officers, Maureen Martin and Monika Užkalnytė. Today, 17th April 2025, SPUC delivered its “YES to our hospices, NO to assisted suicide” postcard petition to Prime Minister Keir Starmer at No. 10 Downing…
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Over 100,000 baby loss certificates have been issued since February 2024 to recognise the loss of unborn children who died at under 24 weeks gestation in England, says the Department of Health and Social Care. The voluntary scheme was initially open to parents who suffered the loss of an unborn…
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson spoke at SPUC’s Lives Worth Living event in Middlesbrough last Friday to warn against MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill that threatens disabled people. Baroness Grey-Thompson, one of the greatest Paralympians of all time, amassed 11 gold medals, four silvers and one bronze in the wheelchair…
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The UK Catholic Medical Association (CMA) has slammed MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, saying that it will make patients accessing healthcare “fear for their safety”.
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President Donald Trump’s US State Department says it is “disappointed” after pro-life activist Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted last Friday for breaching a “buffer zone”. The US Department added that “freedom of expression must be protected for all”.
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Pro-life activist Isabel Vaughan-Spruce has lodged a formal complaint against West Midlands Police, accusing the force of attempting to curtail her right to free speech and silent prayer. Her case, like that of Livia Tossici-Bolt, has been backed by US Congress. Ms Vaughan-Spruce lodged a formal complaint against West Midlands…
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GB News presenter Nana Akua said on air that a pro-life vigil helped her not to abort her child, “and I’m glad that I was influenced by that”. Miss Akua, 53, made the admission after pro-life activist Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, was found guilty and sentenced for offering conversation to women…
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Legal experts have warned that MSP Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill “may be beyond the powers of the Scottish Parliament” to enact, and even if passed, “the new law would be either unworkable or extremely dangerous”. Legal experts Mary Neal, Murray Earle and Michael Foran…
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Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, has been found guilty and fined £20,000 for breaching a buffer zone in Bournemouth in March 2023. Her case had been championed by the US State Department, which warned that the persecution of pro-life men and women in the UK threatens a potential UK-US trade deal.
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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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Abusive pro-abortion protestors forced police to send reinforcements to protect a Manchester Pro-Life Society event hosting Dr Dermot Kearney last Friday. “The pro-abortion fascist mob was out in force to intimidate and silence the Manchester University Pro-Life Students group this evening”, Dr Kearney posted later on X/Twitter. The Manchester Pro-Life…
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The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has criticised the UK’s IVF industry for pushing non-essential and unproven add-ons to patients undergoing fertility treatment. Women undergoing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the UK have been sold unproven add-ons, HFEA said this week, after a survey of 1,500 patients found that 73%…
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Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has been accused of sending a “highly misleading email to MPs” about the depth of public support for assisted suicide in relation to her proposed Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
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In a letter to fellow Labour parliamentarians, a group of Labour MPs have called out the Leadbeater Bill as “irredeemably flawed and not fit to become law”.
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The roll-out of MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, if legalised, has been delayed until 2029, casting doubt about whether the draft law will ever be implemented, though there are concerns that the delay will be spun by Ms Leadbeater to win over MPs troubled by the Bill.