Very moving Radio 4 programme...
Posted on 3 May 2012.
Radio 4 broadcast the very moving story of a severely disabled child and her impact on her family during her short life after going against medical advice to abort.
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Born with a ‘can do’ attitude...
Posted on 30 April 2012.
16 year old Joanne O’Riordan, who was born with no arms or legs, but with a great deal of determination, has addressed the UN on the importance of technological resources for severely disabled people.
The issue of poor quality of life is often cited in the debate over abortion for disability and assisted dying. Here is a young woman who...
‘Wrongful birth’ case may reach European Court...
Posted on 11 April 2012.
A Latvian mother is appealing to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), after losing in her various national courts, claiming that the birth of a daughter with Downs Syndrome was a ‘wrongful’ birth and that had she been provided with prenatal diagnosis she would have aborted the child.
The French-based Jérôme Lejeune...
Can we trust Department of Health statistics on ab...
Posted on 22 March 2012.
The Daily Telegraph has published a very brief article on the subject of a study published on 7th March 2012 in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Apart from the horror of reading that 16 babies were born alive and left to die in 2006 there are further shocking revelations in this article. Table 4 shows huge underreporting of abortions...
Foetal Search and Destroy...
Posted on 18 January 2012.
A new foetal gender test has been developed in South Korea that will allow parents to know the sex of their child at five weeks gestation. The child’s sex is identifiable from the mother’s blood. The makers of this test see it as a step towards eliminating unborn babies with conditions related to their sex.
The ProLife Alliance is very concerned...
Horrifying: Italian’s London Abortion...
Posted on 10 October 2011.
The Sunday Times yesterday published the horrifying news that an Italian woman had been sent to London to have an abortion by her local Rimini gynaecologist, Dr Vincenzo Trengia. Abortion is illegal in Italy after the first trimester except when the mother’s life is in danger. In this case, the unborn child had a non-threatening brain abnormality...
At last: Department of Health releases statistics...
Posted on 4 July 2011.
The Department of Health (DoH) has at last released details of grounds justifying late abortions for fetal health reasons, after a David and Goliath legal battle lasting over 6 years, which started when the ProLife Alliance (PLA) first asked for these statistics under a Freedom of Information request in February 2005.
Previously, this information had...
Comment may be Free at The Guardian newspaper but ...
Posted on 28 April 2011.
Fiona Beveridge, a member of the ProLife Alliance, wrote to the Guardian asking for inaccuracies in the article written by Kate Smurthwaite in the Guardian on 22 April to be corrected, but has not received the courtesy of a response. We are therefore publishing Fiona’s response on our website in the interests of freedom of speech and accuracy....
ProLife Alliance case upheld in the High Court...
Posted on 21 April 2011.
In our longstanding case regarding the transparency of statistics on late abortion, we are delighted to report that the High Court has ruled against the Department of Health. Please see the attached link for details including an interview with Josephine Quintavalle, speaking for the ProLife Alliance outside the High Court.
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A tribute from a loving brother...
Posted on 3 March 2011.
We thought you might like to see this beautiful youtube video produced by a very talented young boy. It is dedicated to his little sister who has Downs Syndrome. It is a very moving song, which might well bring a tear to your eye. How lovely to see the clear love and appreciation this seven year old child has for his little sister.
Many children...
Outrageous statement from Virgina Ironside in favo...
Posted on 7 October 2010.
BBC 1’s Sunday Morning Live, a religious and current affairs discussion programme, this week featured a debate on abortion to coincide with the release of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) judgement that Marie Stopes’ recent TV abortion advertising did not breach their Code. The debate moved swiftly to abortion itself and focused more...
ProLife outrage as Royal College of Obstetricians ...
Posted on 25 June 2010.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists today released two reports: Fetal Awareness and Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality. These update reports published in 1997 and 1996, respectively, following the recommendation of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee in 2008.
The reports in effect reinforce the status...
A message of support from Garry Hole, who suffers ...
Posted on 11 June 2010.
Dear ProLife
I have the physical disability cerebral palsy and other conditions. But I’m so glad my lovely parents didn’t have me aborted at birth. I have engaged in adult ed and the church. I think apart from a few rare exceptions where someone is suffering unbearable pain, life on the whole is too precious to resign from. Please make potential...
Does Antenatal Testing Impliedly Discriminate Agai...
Posted on 10 December 2009.
Antenatal testing for disabilities has attracted considerable controversy over the years for its association with eugenic practices. There is growing discontent amongst disability and human rights organisations that by screening pregnancies, for the purpose of terminating babies with certain conditions, there is an irrefutable presumption that those...
BREAKING NEWS: FORGET TRANSPARENCY WHEN IT COMES T...
Posted on 12 November 2009.
The ProLife Alliance is appalled that the Department of Health has chosen to appeal against the ruling of the Information Tribunal to disclose abortion statistics to the ProLife Alliance.
‘We have been asking since 2005 for full statistics regarding abortions for disability,’ said a spokesperson for the ProLife Alliance. ‘It is a reprehensible...
Information Tribunal rules in favour of the ProLif...
Posted on 16 October 2009.
Abortion comes out of the shadows …
Yesterday the Information Tribunal ruled in favour of the ProLife Alliance (PLA), upholding the Ruling of the Information Commissioner (IC) against that of the Department of Health (DOH) in the matter of full disclosure of abortion statistics post-24 weeks.
The ProLife Alliance participated as an Additional...
Court Diary – Freedom of Information Case Days 3...
Posted on 4 June 2009.
ProLife Alliance seeking truth and transparency about abortion.
June 2
Unfortunately a video-link from Gibraltar with our witness Dr Vincent Argent, scheduled for the morning of Day 3, was not possible due to technical difficulties at the Court, and so he was not able to be questioned on his statement in defence of open access to abortion statistics....
Court Diary – Freedom of Information Case Day 2...
Posted on 2 June 2009.
Late abortion figures for totals under 10 described as ‘statistics of little value’
Not unexpectedly the Department of Health marched into the Information Tribunal this morning circulating a page from the Daily Mail (not usually their favourite newspaper) reporting the killing of the American abortionist, Dr George Tiller. This was just the latest...
Court Diary – Freedom of Information Case Day 1...
Posted on 31 May 2009.
ProLife Alliance seeking truth and transparency about abortion
Babies are aborted post 24-weeks in the United Kingdom and not even worthy of an openly recorded number on a sheet of statistics.
Friday 29 May 2009
In a week with the public braying for full transparency in relationship to every dot and comma involving MPs expenses, it was extraordinary...
TIME TO DISCLOSE THE FULL TRUTH ABOUT ABORTION SAY...
Posted on 28 May 2009.
Abortion Freedom of Information Substantive Hearing in the Information Tribunal Friday 29 May, 1,2,3 June, 2009
Appellant: Department of Health
Respondent: The Information Commissioner
Additional Party: ProLife Alliance
Time: 10:30 am
Dates: Friday 29 May, Monday 1 June, Tuesday 2 June, Wednesday 3 June
Place: Procession House, 110 New Bridge...
Abortion statistics 2008...
Posted on 22 May 2009.
The ProLife Alliance welcomes the 1.6% decrease in the abortion figures for 2008, and also the slightly lower percentage of abortions for teenagers.
The long-standing inadequacies of abortion reporting, however, have not altered. The new statistics yet again record incidences of missing ages, missing gestations, missing postcodes, and missing grounds.
It...
Selfish? Rejecting abortion of a disabled child...
Posted on 27 March 2009.
“A Selfish Choice”
Recently I came across a remark by Claire Rayner to the effect that the decision by the wife of Dominic Lawson to reject the offer of an abortion for their Downs Syndrome child was selfish. She considered the choice selfish, because of the so-called misery of Downs Syndrome children and because the amount of money...
Aborting disabled babies...
Posted on 3 January 2009.
Often people don’t realise how late abortion is carried out in the UK. Over the last four years, there have been repeated calls to restrict the abortion limit, on the grounds that aborting babies at six months (24 weeks) is appalling as babies can survive if born at that stage. But how many people are aware that the 1967 Abortion Act also permits...
