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Police Scotland has said that buffer zones are not enforceable when abortion facilities are closed. The statement comes after pro-abortion MSP Gillian Mackay suggested they should be enforced at all hours. Lawyers from Police Scotland and the Crown Office confirmed that Mackay’s buffer zones law cannot be enforced when abortion…
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Gillian Mackay, the MSP who created the Scottish buffer zones law, is calling for an extension of the exclusion area around the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow to target more peaceful pro-life activists. The Glasgow hospital currently has a 200m exclusion zone outlawing all pro-life activity, including prayer, and…
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A woman is on trial in the UK for allegedly having an illegal chemical abortion at 26 weeks gestation after obtaining abortifacients from provider Marie Stopes. Nicola Packer, 41, allegedly had an illegal abortion, and later took the dead baby in a rucksack to a hospital and claimed she had…
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Disabled people are “absolutely terrified” by proposed assisted suicide laws, Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson told a Westminster event this week before another vote on MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
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A distressed mother has contacted an agony aunt for advice after her pregnant daughter said she wants an abortion “to concentrate on her career”. The reply said that the daughter should contact an abortion provider for “impartial advice”. The mother contacted the Daily Mail’s Dear Caroline agony aunt column to…
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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 Street. The petition was signed by 9,272 people.
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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…