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Heroic witness against abortion from blind Chinese...

Posted on 3 May 2012.

In the past two days no one can have missed the world coverage of the blind Chinese human rights activist, Chen Guang Cheng, and his attempt to find asylum within the American Embassy. Today it is revealed that he is no longer in the Embassy, but it remains unclear whether he left of his own volition or because of political pressure. What...

Posted on 30 April 2012.

Good news has reached us from the US that Pepsi will no longer use a testing process provided by Senomyx which involved the use of aborted fetal tissue. This victory follows a peaceful yet powerful boycott campaign initiated by American prolifers. The ProLife Alliance, when alerted to the boycott, raised similar concerns in correspondence with...

Posted on 23 April 2012.

Today several papers reported that BBC Five Live is to interview women and staff in an unnamed abortion clinic next month as part of a two hour programme. The ultimate taboo in relationship to abortion is not the counselling process with the woman, but the tragic reality of what happens to the unborn child. This latest initiative...

Posted on 20 April 2012.

The Irish parliament, Dáil Éireann, voted by 111 to 20 to defeat a pro-abortion bill which would have legalized abortion in Ireland and also sent pro-life protesters to jail. This vote reflects the poll carried out on the Irish public in advance of the debate. It is notable that supporters of the bill cited misleading research in...

Posted on 10 April 2012.

On 7th April, the Guardian reported that a US organisation called Medical Students for Choice is to fund medical students to shadow doctors at BPAS in ‘externships’. On closer inspection it seems that Medical Students for Choice can’t seem to sell their ghastly scholarships in their own country, so are hardly likely to be any...

Posted on 5 April 2012.

The decision by the Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, to investigate abortion clinics urgently following the devastating Daily Telegraph revelations about potential criminal practice, was more than justified and it is total humbug for abortion supporters to criticise his prompt intervention. Care Quality Commission inspectors visited nearly 300 abortion...

Posted on 3 April 2012.

The front page of Monday’s Guardian (2/4/12) screamed about a ‘witch-hunt’ against abortion providers. The newspaper fears that doctors will be put off becoming abortionists by the current increase in official inspections. However, most will view this as a positive development. Doctors may actually be reluctant to perform...

Posted on 28 March 2012.

Yesterday, the House of Commons debated a motion from Richard Ottaway MP to welcome the Director of Public Policy for Prosecutors in Respect of Cases of Encouraging or Assisting Suicide, published in February 2010. The ProLife Alliance is delighted that all those present at the debate were unanimous in their support both of the main motion and...

Latest abortion scandal...

Posted on 23 March 2012.

The Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s promised investigation into practices at abortion clinics has been publicised in today’s press. It is more than time for an extensive inquiry into the practice of abortion in the United Kingdom, not just focusing on private clinics subcontracted by the NHS, but equally importantly the NHS itself,...

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...

Posted on 12 March 2012.

Tony Nicklinson wants doctors to be allowed to kill disabled people. The High Court's decision that the case can proceed is very frightening indeed for them. However sympathetic one might be to Mr. Nicklinson, his is a very rare condition. Hard cases do make bad law. The media, especially the BBC, repeatedly show...

Posted on 8 March 2012.

Superb exposition and excellent attendance at meeting with Professors Priscilla Coleman and Patricia Casey. The colloquium between these two experts, Dr Priscilla Coleman who is Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and Dr Patricia Casey who is Professor of Psychiatry at University College Dublin,...

Posted on 23 February 2012.

There is understandable outrage across the country today, following an undercover media exercise, which confirms that gendercide abortions are taking place in our country. Different scenarios were placed before abortion providers around the country, and compelling video footage shows how easily agreement was obtained to abort the baby of the undesired...

Posted on 13 February 2012.

Following on from the news which we reported last week regarding the right of women seeking an abortion to see an ultrasound scan if they wish, the pro-choice Center for Reproductive Justice appealed on the grounds that doctors are being denied their right to freedom of speech and that women’s ‘fundamental reproductive rights’ will...

Posted on 10 February 2012.

The Daily Telegraph has published an article, including a poll on their website. We urge readers to vote. In January, the state of Texas made a change to their legislation so that women seeking an abortion should be offered the chance to see a scan of their unborn baby beforehand. Texas is well-known (along with Ohio) as having an...

Posted on 9 February 2012.

The Daily Mail reports that since 2009 NHS Solent has been giving young teenagers from 13 years of age Nexplanon contraceptive implants without their parents’ knowledge as part of their teenage pregnancy strategy. According to the product information on Nexplanon, ‘safety and efficacy have been established in women between...

Posted on 5 January 2012.

The objectivity of the so-called “independent commission on assisted dying” has always been in doubt. On November 30th 2011 it was revealed that nine of the twelve Falconer commissioners were well-known names in the movement to legalise assisted suicide . The commission is the brainchild of the campaign group 'Dignity in...

Posted on 9 December 2011.

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AOMRC) has today published research which they commissioned on the mental health of women following induced abortion. A spokesperson for the ProLife Alliance comments: Once again the politics of abortion blinds those who should be rigorously objective in assessing epidemiological evidence. This is a...

Posted on 20 July 2011.

The Journal of Medical Ethics has published a survey of 733 medical students carried out by Dr Sophie Strickland. The survey shows that increasing numbers of medical students are opposed to carrying out abortions. Details can be found on this link. In a heavily biased article in the Guardian (18/7/11) Dr Strickland says her findings are worrying...

Posted on 19 July 2011.

Today the case of a 53 year old woman with minimal consciousness goes to court for a 10 day hearing. In 2003 ‘M’ suffered brain damage, although she is not in a persistent vegetative state. She responds to touch, can move an arm and can put her tongue in and out. Her mother, who has Alzeimers, has made an application for food and fluid to be...

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...

Posted on 28 June 2011.

In May 2009 the ProLife Alliance and other pro-life organisations protested to the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) about Marie Stopes advertising on television. We launched a petition signed by 1,385 supporters, added to the 27,000 others who protested against the advertisements. A tiny 2,000 submitted in support of Marie Stopes. In...

Posted on 24 May 2011.

The Department of Health (DoH) has today published the Abortion Statistics for England and Wales 2010. The latest statistics (*), completing the first decade of the Millennium, present an extremely sad picture for England and Wales, with abortion figures averaging over 195,000 a year, and in 2010 a recorded 196,109 which is slightly up on the previous...

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....

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. Read More →

Posted on 17 April 2011.

It is ten years since a statistic for one late abortion (post 24 weeks) for cleft palate, published in the 2001 Abortion Statistics, triggered what has become a very lengthy battle over freedom of information in relation to the statistical reporting of termination of pregnancy. On Monday 18 April the legal battle continues in the High Court, as the...

Posted on 18 November 2010.

The ProLife Alliance welcomes the rejection, by the End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill Committee, of Margo MacDonald MSP’s arguments for legalising assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. The Committee’s Stage 1 report published today, 18 November 2010, does not therefore recommend the general principles of the Bill to the Scottish Parliament,...

Posted on 2 November 2010.

The ProLife Alliance heartily congratulates Mme. Maryannick Pavageau, who has been awarded France’s highest decoration, the Légion d’Honneur, for her anti-euthanasia activity. 30 years ago, at the age of 29, she had a stroke, and was in a coma for three months. She suffers from Locked-in Syndrome, and is virtually completely paralysed...

Open letter to David Cameron...

Posted on 29 October 2010.

Dear Mr Cameron, We understand that you will be visiting China in November. Before you go, the ProLife Alliance would like to alert you to the terrible situation regarding forced abortion in China and the involvement of the UK government. We urge you in particular to withdraw any overseas funding for Marie Stopes International’s programmes which...

Posted on 25 October 2010.

The ProLife Alliance is delighted to report that the European Commission’s annual budget has been amended so that family planning programmes involving forced abortion will not be funded. Additionally amendments to the 2011 budget were agreed to combat forced abortion, sterilisation and infanticide in countries which enforce state family planning...

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