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The ProLife Alliance appalled by Australian doctor...

Posted on 15 March 2010.

The Australian doctor Philip Nitschke, founder of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International’, is today running a series of seminars in Holborn, including one on ‘DIY death’. Nitschke is a well-known lobbyist for the ‘right to die’ movement and has previously courted controversy by giving well publicised ‘how to commit suicide’ classes...

Posted on 8 March 2010.

A series of articles in this week’s The Economist (March 6th – 12th 2010) highlights the growing epidemic of ‘gendercide’ which has accounted for the global disappearance of over 100 million baby girls through infanticide, abortion or neglect. Phenomena such as the one-child policy adopted in China and surreptitious sex-selective abortion in...

Posted on 3 March 2010.

The Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) together with Ofcom, have announced they will shortly be publishing their new Broadcast Advertising Code, but they have decided to postpone their ruling in relationship to advertising abortion advice on television. During a consultation in March 2009, BCAP was proposing to include a rule in their...

‘Angie the Anti-Theist’s’ Aborti...

Posted on 1 March 2010.

Last month, an American calling herself ‘Angie the Anti-Theist’ decided to terminate her pregnancy of one month using the RU486 abortion drug, and during the process posted regular updates on Twitter and YouTube and spoke of her opposition to pro-life views. Whilst finding repugnant the actions of ‘Angie the Anti-Theist’, as she likes to call...

Posted on 26 February 2010.

The Director of Public Prosecution, Keir Starmer, yesterday published his assisted suicide policy. The publication followed a consultation process and the issuing of an interim policy in September last year. Simon Hopkins from the ProLife Alliance commented: “In reply to the consultation process the ProLife Alliance submitted a response outlining...

Posted on 24 February 2010.

The ProLife Alliance urges the government to take action after figures released today show that Britain still has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe. The figures from the Office of National Statistics show that 40,000 or 40 in 1,000 teenage girls become pregnant in Britain every year, and shows that the government’s target of halving under-18s...

Posted on 24 February 2010.

The Prime Minister has condemned recent calls for assisted suicide to be legalised in an article published in the Daily Telegraph today. In an article entitled ‘We must resist the call to legalise assisted suicide’ he highlighted the dangers of changing the current law: “The law – together with the values and standards of our caring professions...

Posted on 22 February 2010.

In the BBC East Midlands programme Inside Out, Ray Gosling, a Nottingham filmmaker, told how he smothered his lover who was dying of AIDS when the doctor left the room. On returning to find the man dead, Mr Gosling said to the doctor, ‘He’s gone’ and from all accounts the matter was not investigated further. Camilla Bertenshaw of the ProLife...

Posted on 3 February 2010.

Today a General Medical Council (GMC) panel determined that Dr Saroj Adlakha’s name be erased from the medical register. The panel found that the Birmingham GP’s fitness to practise was severely impaired because of several instances of severe misconduct centring around the procuring of a late abortion for her daughter knowing that it was illegal...

Posted on 2 February 2010.

The ProLife Alliance is extremely disappointed with biased viewpoint in Panorama’s coverage of the Kay Gilderdale case and the euthanasia debate last night. The programme followed Kay Gilderdale in the run up to and during the aftermath of her trial for the attempted murder of her daughter, Lynn, who suffered from ME. Camilla Bertenshaw, Communications...

ProLife position on Ellaone drug...

Posted on 29 January 2010.

The ProLife Alliance defends the right to life of a human being from the very first moment of conception, not from when the embryo implants in the womb. We oppose, therefore, any intervention which could result in the deliberate ending of that life once created. The new post-coital pill, billed as emergency contraception, will still have the potential...

Posted on 24 November 2009.

The testimony of Rom Houben, a misdiagnosed coma victim, has once again cast doubt on the campaign of the pro-euthanasia lobby. Neurologist Steven Laureys, who discovered that Houben’s brain was in fact functioning normally 23 years after he was declared to be in a persistent vegetative state, maintained that this was not a unique case. In a BMC...

Posted on 5 November 2009.

Next week the ProLife Alliance expects to receive from the Department of Health (DoH) withheld statistics relating to abortions for abnormality. We won access to this data following a high profile court case under the Freedom of Information Act, when the Information Tribunal ruled in our favour mid October this year. The DoH could still appeal the...

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...

Posted on 25 September 2009.

The ProLife Alliance is strongly opposed to the publication of interim guidelines by Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer on 23rd September 2009, regarding the prosecution of assisted suicide in England and Wales. Chairman of the ProLife Alliance Dominica Roberts issues the following statement: “Although the DPP states that assisted suicide...

Posted on 25 July 2009.

It is both sad and strange that the Royal College of Nursing has ceased to oppose assisted dying and adopted a ‘neutral stance’, neither supporting or opposing assisted suicide, given the recent overwhelming rejection of assisted suicide recently in the House of Lords. When a group of pro-euthanasiasts pushed through a similar ‘neutral’...

Sad loss of double suicide...

Posted on 15 July 2009.

The ProLife Alliance defends the right to life from conception to natural death, and is therefore opposed to assisted suicide or euthanasia in any form whatsoever. We are proud of the fact that the United Kingdom has some of the best palliative care specialists and end of life medicine in the world, with hospice care of the highest level. It is extremely...

Posted on 9 July 2009.

The ProLife Alliance welcomes the House of Lords decision on July 7th, to reject, by 194 votes to 141, Lord Falconer’s perverse amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill. The intention of the Coroners and Justice Bill is to prohibit incitement to suicide. However, euthanasia supporters had tabled an amendment in support of assisted suicide,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Posted on 23 April 2009.

Despite public outrage at proposals to show abortion ads on TV, the UK’s first television advert for the morning-after pill is due to be screened tonight, after the 9pm watershed on ITV, Channel 4 and Sky. Dominica Roberts, speaking on behalf of the ProLife Alliance stated: ‘We are absolutely outraged that without even waiting for the outcome...

Posted on 29 March 2009.

The ProLife Alliance condemns proposals by the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP), reported widely by media including The Telegraph, and Daily Mail which will allow pro-abortion organisations to advertise abortion and condoms on prime time TV and radio and give Britain among the world’s most liberal broadcasting regimes on sexual...

Posted on 12 March 2009.

Prof. Sir Richard Gardner, a stem cell expert from Oxford University and advisor to the HFEA and the Royal Society, speaking at a recent Oxford International Biomedical Centre conference, stated that fetal tissue may offer a more realistic solution to the lack of donor organs than technologies such as designer pigs with ‘humanised’ organs which...

Posted on 4 March 2009.

DoH SCAREMONGERING TO JUSTIFY PARTIAL EXCLUSION OF PROLIFE ALLIANCE (PUBLIC AND PRESS) FROM ABORTION TRIBUNAL HEARING 1. Background Information The ProLife Alliance will participate as Additional Party at a Tribunal Hearing between the Department of Health and the Information Commissioner in relationship to an appeal against a ruling by the IC, which...

Posted on 31 October 2007.

Oct 31, 2007 Today the Science and Technology Committee published their report on scientific developments relating to the Abortion Act 1967. Predictably, the Committee’s recommendations favour the agenda of the pro-abortion lobby, and in particular have ignored most recent developments in survival rates of premature babies. ‘The majority...

Abortion: 1967-2007. Forty Terrible Years...

Posted on 28 October 2007.

Oct 28, 2007 The Alive and Kicking campaign, of which the ProLife Alliance is a member, issued the following press release today: On the 27 October, 1967, the Abortion Act was officially passed in the UK Parliament. As Big Ben struck midnight it was the beginning of a day which marks the 40th Anniversary of this Act, an Act which has resulted in the...

Posted on 16 October 2007.

Oct 16, 2007 ProLife Alliance submission to the Select Committee on Science and Technology inquiry into scientific developments relating to the Abortion Act 1967 1 Introduction 1.1 The ProLife Alliance (PLA) was established in 1997 with the aim of securing the right to life of all human beings from conception to natural death. 1.2 PLA takes this opportunity...

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