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ProLife Alliance Welcomes BBC’s New Guidelines o...

Posted on 21 October 2010.

The ProLife Alliance welcomes the extension of BBC guidelines on impartiality (which used to apply only to matters of public policy or political and industrial controversy) to broadcasting about religion, science, culture and ethics. We have complained in the past about biased reporting on pro-life questions, where BBC reporters have appeared to be...

Posted on 20 October 2010.

The ProLife Alliance congratulates Therese Coffey, MP for Suffolk Coastal who has put forward an Early Day Motion on Informed Consent for Abortion. The EDM can be viewed on this link. We urge you to ask your local MP to support this EDM. You can find your Member of Parliament through this link. Therese Coffey’s EDM relates particularly to the...

Posted on 20 October 2010.

Missy Smith, Republican candidate for the Washington DC US House of Representatives has made the rights of the unborn child a key issue in her political campaign well ahead of other more general party-political concerns. Missy, who had an abortion herself which she regrets bitterly, has used media publicity in the US to show graphic images of abortion....

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...

Posted on 10 September 2010.

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been freed in China following four years in prison, human rights groups say. Yesterday he was escorted by police from prison to his home in the village of Dongshigu, Shandong. However it is unclear how much freedom he will be permitted as the house is under constant surveillance with telephone and internet access blocked. Mr...

Posted on 16 August 2010.

The ProLife Alliance is very disturbed by the recent announcement by Boots Chemists that they plan to sell Levonelle, the morning after pill, via their website. This is a profit-motivated strategy with little regard for women’s health or any ethical considerations. Their standards’ director, Paul Bennett is quoted in the Daily Mail (14/8/2010)...

Posted on 10 August 2010.

Marie Stopes International has once again hit controversy in the national news. According to the Mail on Sunday (8 August 2010), the pro-abortion organisation is offering free abortions to staff as part of its ‘benefits package’ to employees. The newspaper states that the service also applies to family members of the employee, including teenage...

Posted on 4 August 2010.

The ProLife Alliance is appalled by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) adjudication which has rejected the complaints it received concerning the Marie Stopes abortion services adverts first broadcast on 24 May. The adjudication rejected claims that the advert was misleading as to the services that MSI provided. In addition it denied that MSI...

Posted on 20 July 2010.

Tony Nicklinson, a former engineering executive who suffered a stroke in 2005 which left him paralysed from the neck down, yesterday launched a legal bid to insure immunity for his wife if she were to kill him. Mr Nicklinson, who suffers from ‘locked-in syndrome’, is not terminally ill or in great pain but says that he is fed up with his life and...

Posted on 15 July 2010.

Yesterday a report published by the Economist Intelligence Unit gave the UK a 7.9 out of 10 for end of life care, joint top with Australia. A team of researchers compared 40 countries and concluded that access to drugs and carers were the two most important issues in end of life care. They also found that charities played a crucial role in offering...

Posted on 1 July 2010.

An article published yesterday in Science Translational Medicine indicates research into Parkinson’s disease using fetal tissue is set to restart after over ten years. Studies conducted in the late 1980s and 1990s appeared to show that transplanting cells from the brains of aborted fetuses had some effect in reversing the effects of the progressive...

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...

Posted on 24 June 2010.

Just as the full implications of the Budget are beginning to sink in, a parliamentary answer revealed yesterday that the Department for International Development has been giving away millions of pounds to the abortion provider Marie Stopes International to spend on abortions in the developing world. The Conservative MP David Amess asked how much DFID...

Posted on 21 June 2010.

Police are considering reopening a case against Dr Howard Martin who was cleared of murdering three of his patients in 2005. Dr Martin was struck off by the General Medical Council last week for hastening the deaths of 18 dying patients. The GMC disciplinary panel said that he had “violated the rights of the terminally ill” and had acted on the...

Posted on 25 May 2010.

The Department of Health abortion statistics for England and Wales for 2009 were published today. They show that a total of 195,296 abortions were performed last year, of which 189,100 were on women resident in England and Wales. This marks a fall of 3.2% on the year before. However over five years on from the ProLife Alliance’s original Freedom...

Posted on 25 May 2010.

Abortion provider Marie Stopes last night aired its controversial ‘First ever TV commercial for abortion services’ (1), in an advertising slot during the launch of a new and particularly banal game show on Channel 4. Never famous for its subtlety or discernment Marie Stopes shared advertising time with a selection of products and purveyors, including...

Posted on 20 May 2010.

At 10.10pm on Monday 24th May, Channel 4 is to show the first ever abortion commercial on British television in defiance of the governing codes of advertising. The commercial, part of a new campaign abortion by provider Marie Stopes International, is to be aired throughout June A spokesperson for the ProLife Alliance said: “We deplore the decision...

Posted on 8 April 2010.

The Conservative leader David Cameron, in an interview with the Catholic Herald newspaper, has declared his support for a reduction in the upper abortion limit to 20 weeks. This position is consistent with his voting on the issue when it came before Parliament in 2008. Mr Cameron said: “My own view is that we do need to review the abortion limit....

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...

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