Various campaigns and actions aimed at opposing assisted suicide and abortion up to birth in the United Kingdom, including efforts to influence MPs and MSPs to vote against related bills and amendments. It also highlights ongoing initiatives such as the Not Suicide campaign, No To Abortion Up To Birth campaign, and the Every Child Counts campaign, providing information on how supporters can take action through petitions, contacting representatives, and attending parliamentary events.
I have spent over three decades working as a psychiatrist and psycho-oncologist, including years as a palliative care psychiatrist in a hospice, caring for people with serious physical illness and mental illness, and helping patients and families navigate the psychological realities of dying. I have seen thousands of patients after suicide attempts and with suicidal […]
Since I was elected, I have listened to constituents describe the agony of watching someone they love approach the end of life. I have experienced that agony myself. When cancer claimed my wife, I witnessed the fear and helplessness that serious illness can bring in its final stages. I know what it means to wish […]
A new poll shared exclusively with LBC has found 78% of people believe Parliament should improve access to care for disabled people before introducing assisted suicide. Click here to read the full article
When I heard Andy Burnham recently say that Britain must fix its crisis in social care and palliative care provision before entertaining the introduction of assisted dying I knew, perhaps more than most, how right he was. When campaigners insist that assisted death is simply a matter of “autonomy”, they should study Canada’s experience. Click here to […]
McKenna West, a surrogate who refused to abort a baby diagnosed with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, has filed an updated brief with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking an administrative stay to prevent the baby from being moved out of Texas.
After Cardinal Blase Cupich, two orders of nuns, and a small-town pharmacist sued the state of Illinois over its new assisted suicide law, a judge granted a temporary reprieve. While the new law took effect in Illinois on September 12, the plaintiffs are not required to comply with it while their case is being resolved. Read More… Reprieve for now: Illinois assisted suicide law
What if all it takes to make a difference is simply showing up? In this episode of The LifeCast , Rich Bennett invites Stu Davis, Executive Director of COS I Love You, to discuss the impact of putting faith into action. Stu shares how COS I Love You activates and unites church communities to make a large-scale difference across Colorado Springs, including supporting organizations that serve women, children, and families and champion the value of life. Their work is a reminder that being pro-life means not only defending life, but also walking alongside people and meeting practical needs with c
Father Larry Holland, a Vancouver priest recovering from a hip fracture at Vancouver General Hospital, was twice offered medical assistance in dying (MAiD) by health-care staff despite being known as a Catholic priest opposed to euthanasia. The offers occurred amid a broader context of increasing encouragement for medical professionals in Canada to initiate MAiD discussions, a practice criticized by pro-life advocates and highlighted by the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers' guidance against assuming patients' views based on faith.
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Deep-blue states struggle in court to compel religious professionals to spout progressive orthodoxy, and federal appeals court set to rule in similar challenge by pro-life pregnancy centers. U.K. diverges from Canada's approach's
The request makes the case that surrogacy fits the definition laid out in the 1926 Slavery Convention that the practice entails the rights of ownership of a person. [...]
A recent study highlights that when women are coerced or pressured into abortion, they are at high risk for negative outcomes — but abortion prviidess rarely screen for abortion coercion. [...]
A man who poisoned his girlfriend with abortion drugs received a sentence of six months and probation. The case highlights concerns about the legal consequences for such actions involving abortion drugs.
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed a law removing the 24-week abortion limit, allowing abortions up to birth based on a physician's professional judgment. The law's passage and its late-term abortion provisions have been downplayed by politicians and media, despite polls showing majority public opposition to abortion through birth.
President Donald Trump nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the FDA, with her record showing opposition to abortion and criticism of expanded access to abortion pills through telehealth and mail.
A Democrat reflects on their ideological journey toward pro-life views, influenced by concerns about factory farming, the teachings of Popes Francis and Leo, and encounters with compassionate pro-life advocates. The reflection highlights challenges within the Democratic Party's stance on abortion, the impact of the Dobbs decision, and suggests the pro-life movement might gain more support by moderating on issues other than abortion to appeal to centrist and center-left voters.
Students for Life of America launched a church flyering campaign in Austin, Texas, targeting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico's statements reconciling abortion with Christianity by distributing literature at approximately seven churches and demonstrating outside them on September 13, 2026.
Students for Life of America hosted their second 'Wear the Truth Week' from September 14 to 18, 2026, distributing free shirts with the slogans 'LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION' and 'SEX IS BINARY & UNCHANGEABLE' to students at over 90 schools in 34 states. Along with shirts, students received tabling supplies and a guide to help them discuss and defend pro-life and pro-biology views on campus while preparing for potential backlash.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington directed priests in his diocese to read a pastoral letter urging Catholics to vote 'No' on two November ballot measures in Virginia that would expand abortion access and redefine marriage in the state constitution.
Europe’s Christian future may be slipping away faster than many Catholics realize. Pope Leo XIV appointed a coadjutor archbishop who once wrote that “the Church is called to disappear so that the Kingdom may grow,” while major cultural battles continue across France over euthanasia, Catholic education, and public blasphemy.
The current global tensions involving Russia, the West, the U.S., Israel, Iran, and China, warning that the world is on the brink of a global war. It emphasizes that a return to God and repentance is necessary to avoid destruction and achieve lasting peace, citing historical events and religious messages such as those from Our Lady of Fatima.
The Casablanca group of experts and the French NGO Juristes Pour l’Enfance have requested the United Nations to recognize surrogacy as a new form of slavery involving women and children, based on the 1926 Slavery Convention's definition of ownership over a person. They argue that surrogacy reduces the child in utero to an object and subjects the surrogate mother’s body to control by third parties, with several UN bodies and the Catholic Church also condemning the practice and calling for its abolition.
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which would have allowed terminally ill adults in England and Wales to obtain lethal drugs for assisted suicide, was rejected by the UK Parliament by 286 votes to 270 on September 11, 2026. Archbishop John Sherrington of Liverpool and other life advocates expressed gratitude to those opposing the bill, emphasizing the importance of palliative care and solidarity with the sick rather than legalizing assisted suicide.
YouTube personality Jesse Ridgway and his wife Ashley decided to abort their unborn son after a diagnosis of Down syndrome, citing concerns about potential health complications and developmental disabilities. Ridgway responded to criticism from religious and pro-life voices with profane language, defending their choice and accusing critics of directing hate toward them.
Surrogate mother McKenna West has filed an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a California court order that recognizes the California couple who hired her as the legal parents of the child born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). West argues for custody or conservatorship, claiming she does not trust the couple to provide life-saving care and alleges they demanded she abort the baby, while the couple has obtained a restraining order barring her from seeing the child and is suing her for breach of the surrogacy agreement.
UK lawmakers in the House of Commons voted 286 to 270 against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which would have allowed terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose assisted dying with approval from two doctors and an expert panel. The government remained neutral during the vote, and opponents cited concerns about potential coercion, lack of safeguards for disabled people, and the difficulty of accurately predicting a six-month prognosis, while religious leaders and medical colleges also expressed objections to the bill.
So we are calling abortion an act of mercy now? According to actress Anne Hathaway in an interview on “The View,” “abortion can be another word for mercy.” We are all used to the euphemisms that surround abortion; they’ve been an essential part of keeping it a socially acceptable practice despite its gruesome realities.
