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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said it is “utterly ludicrous” to allow abortion up to 24 weeks when premature babies can survive at 22 weeks or less.
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Abortions of unborn children diagnosed with Down’s syndrome have surged by 80 per cent in Scotland in just four years, official statistics show. Abortions of unborn babies with Down’s syndrome increased from 33 in 2021 to 60 in 2024, when there was a record high of 18,710 abortions in Scotland…
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Amnesty International is once again promoting pro-abortion ideology by hosting an event championing “abortion providers as human rights defenders”. Today, Amnesty is hosting an online event titled, “Taking action to safeguard abortion providers as human rights defenders.” The advocacy group will hold a panel discussion on what measures nations “must…
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Public Health Scotland has published the 2024 Abortion Statistics for Scotland.
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The Secretary of State for Justice has warned that MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill is being rushed through Parliament without adequate scrutiny.
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US diplomats have personally interviewed five pro-life activists on a fact-finding mission to assess the erosion of free speech in the UK. The White House has become increasingly troubled by the arrests of UK citizens for the “crime” of silent prayer and offering to help women in crisis pregnancies.
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The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has slammed MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill as “wrong in principle as well as being fundamentally flawed”.
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An amendment proposed by Labour MP Stella Creasy, if passed, will decriminalise abortion up to birth and abandon women and their unborn babies to coercion from abusive partners, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has warned.
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A damning report by two baby charities has estimated that thousands of babies’ lives are being lost because of failures to improve NHS maternity care in England. At least 2,500 fewer babies would have died in England since 2018 if the NHS had adequately addressed maternity care failings. This was…
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A grandmother who was the first person to be arrested for allegedly breaching a Scottish buffer zone has said that she is “willing to go to prison on the issue because I am unshakeably convinced that nobody should be criminalised for a peaceful offer to speak on any public land…
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An amendment that would effectively decriminalise all abortion has been tabled in the UK parliament and is being supported by over 50 cross-party MPs.
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Westminster MPs have pushed back against Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill in a House of Commons debate that saw many slam the proposed law as irresponsible and dangerous. The debate will continue next month.
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SPUC has said it is “deeply concerned” after MSPs voted in favour of a proposed assisted suicide bill for Scotland. “SPUC will continue to urge every MSP to consider the great dangers inherent in assisted suicide”, said SPUC CEO John Deighan. This evening, MSPs voted 70 to 56 in favour…
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Half of Britons fear the timing of a proposed assisted suicide law that comes while benefits are being cut, a poll commissioned by SPUC has revealed. Over 2,000 Britons were surveyed by Whitestone Insight on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) ahead of two key…
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People suffering from anorexia could be endangered by assisted suicide laws, a health charity has warned ahead of today’s first vote on MSP Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill. Health experts from the charity Eat Breathe Thrive, which helps people with eating disorders, have warned that…