Scotland’s proposed assisted suicide bill could allow assisted suicide for people with anorexia from as young as 16 years olds, an ethics expert has argued. Professor David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, has argued that the broad definition of terminal illness present in the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill could allow state-assisted suicide for people suffering from anorexia. “It is called the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill, so that proclaims itself as being restricted to people who are terminally ill, but it defines ..read more

Thank you to everyone who has contacted their MP asking them to oppose Stella Creasy’s abortion up to birth amendment – thousands of emails were sent to MPs over the weekend and we have heard from MPs that their inboxes have been flooded. If you haven’t emailed your MP yet, you can do it now here. Thank you to everyone who has contacted their MP asking them to oppose Stella Creasy’s abortion up to birth amendment – thousands of emails were sent to MPs over the weekend and we have heard from MPs that their inboxes have been flooded. If you haven’t emailed your MP yet, you can do it now here ..read more

A premature baby from Florida has gone home from hospital for the first time after spending over a year in neonatal intensive care. Baby Shiloh was born at 29 weeks gestation and weighed just over three pounds at birth. He experienced multiple health problems including chronic lung injury and a hole in his heart, and transferred hospitals shortly after birth to get the specialist help he needed. He has since undergone extensive health procedures including heart surgery and a tracheotomy.  A few months ago, Shiloh celebrated his first birthday in hospital with his parents and hospital sta ..read more

Results of a Scottish Parliament consultation on Gillian Mackay MSP’s buffer zone Bill show that 77% of respondents to the consultation are opposed to introducing buffer zones in Scotland. Released earlier today, the results of the public consultation on the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill reveal strong opposition to plans to introduce buffer zones around abortion clinics in Scotland. The Bill was introduced in October 2023 and is currently progressing through the Scottish Parliament. Out of the 5,856 responses to the question ‘Do you agree with the overall purpose of th ..read more

Pro-abortion MP Stella Creasy has tabled a new abortion up to birth amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill. If this extreme law change passes, it would make it far more likely that babies are aborted at home for any reason, up to birth. Stella Creasy’s amendment would also make sex-selective abortion legal through to 24 weeks, along with removing a number of other safeguards provided by the Abortion Act. In addition, it would remove key deterrents against hiding a dead baby included in Section 60 of the Offences Against the Person Act. Section 60 is currently used to make it illegal to hide t ..read more

PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Campaigners call for MPs to vote down Stella Creasy’s new abortion up to birth amendment Campaigners are calling on MPs to reject a new amendment tabled by Labour MP, Stella Creasy, to the Criminal Justice Bill that would make extreme changes to abortion laws. The amendment (NC40) proposes making the biggest changes to abortion laws since the Abortion Act was introduced in 1967. Abortion up to birth The proposed change to the law would make it more likely that healthy babies are aborted at home for any reason, up to birth, by removing key deterrents agai ..read more

American comedian and talk show host Bill Maher has said that abortion is a kind of “murder” and that he is “okay with that”. During a segment on his show Real Time with Bill Maher last Friday, the pro-abortion host was discussing the issue of abortion with the British talk show host and journalist, Piers Morgan. “I scold the left when they say ‘Oh you know what, they just hate women, people who aren’t pro-choice’. They [pro-lifers] don’t hate women. They [pro-choicers] just made that up”. “[Pro-lifers] think it’s murder and… it kind of is. I’m just okay with that. I am. I mean, there’s eig ..read more

Two married nurses who work on a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Nebraska have adopted a little girl who received care in their unit for eight months. Taylor and Drew Deras met through working in the NICU and married in 2020. The following year, baby Ella was born at just 23 weeks and 1 day at the hospital they worked in. Taylor was one of the nurses on the team supporting Ella, having signed up to be her constant caregiver. “I knew I kind of wanted that challenge as a nurse to be able to take care of her and kind of see where things would go and what she would do”, Taylor said. “I do ..read more

PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Manchester: Police protect young female pro-life speaker from screaming pro-abortion mob Video footage captures screaming mob hurling abuse and attempting to intimidate female pro-life speaker Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 designed to protect free expression on campus – advocates call for Manchester University to uphold higher standards A “screaming pro-abortion mob” forced local police to provide an escort to a pro-life speaker at the University of Manchester who had to take transport to a different location because it was “not safe” to ..read more

The state of Oregon had the highest number of assisted suicides in 2023 since the practice began in 1998. The latest annual assisted suicide report ‘Oregon Death with Dignity Act: 2023 Data Summary’, released last month, has revealed a total of 367 people ended their lives by assisted suicide in 2023 in Oregon. This figure represents a 32% increase in deaths by assisted suicide from 278 in the previous year. Among the end-of-life concerns listed by those who ended their lives, almost half (43.3%) of those who ended their lives reported being concerned about being a “[b]urden on family, friend ..read more