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January 21, 2016

19-year-old woman dies during abortion in Italy

Last week, the Italian Health Ministry announced that a 19-year-old woman had died during an abortion procedure at Cardarelli Hospital in Naples. The young mother - Gabriella Cipolletta - died after going into hypovolemic shock during the abortion after losing too much blood.

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November 7, 2015

Pro-Life, and Pro-Abortion Proposals for Scotland

Scotland is now facing a significant abortion battle with both pro-life and pro-abortion sides facing each other down with opposing proposals on the life issues.   There has been a proposal put forward by several pro-life MP’s to transfer authority of abortion laws to the Scottish...

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April 15, 2015

One of Us achieves 'great moral victory’ re EU Commission

The EU Commission has tacitly acknowledged that it’s rejection of the 1.7 million pro-life ‘One of Us’ petition was not based on “correct factual assumptions and legal interpretations”. Youth Defence and Life Institute supporters will remember collecting 11,000 plus signatures for the...

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March 9, 2015

Olympic gymnast refuses abortion: gives birth to 3 gorgeous girls

A former Olympic gymnast who was advised by doctors to abort two of her triplets has given birth to three healthy baby girls, the Daily Mail reports. Jaime Halsey and her rugby star husband Steve, both 35, were told they were expecting triplets in October, but were quickly referred to...

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August 4, 2014

ONE OF US Initiative challenges the European institutions before the General Court of the European Union

Bravo to the One of Us Initiative, they are not letting this go! Below we print their release On July 25th 2014, the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ONE OF US lodged an application before the General Court of the European Union (Luxembourg) against the European Commission, the Council...

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July 15, 2014

MP outrage at 39-week abortion in the UK

SHOCKED MPs have called for a change to Britain’s “medieval and cruel” abortion laws after a termination was carried out on a baby only days before it was due to be born It was aborted 39 weeks into pregnancy under guidelines that allow termination where there is a “significant risk” the...

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June 12, 2014

UK Judge orders forced abortion on a 13-year-old girl

We’ve heard of forced abortions in China. Women being held down against their will, sometimes drugged or sedated, and forcibly, yet legally, aborted. We think this could never happen in our neck of the woods. Think again. Just this week in Britain, a High Court Judge ordered that a...

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June 11, 2014

Irish MEP's urged to oppose undemocratic decision

Irish MEPS have been urged to speak out against a decision by the EU Commission to ignore a European Citizen's Initiative petition which gathered support from 1.8 million EU citizens. The Life Institute said that the EU Commission's decision was "a clear example of the undemocratic nature of EU...

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March 28, 2014

Law Centre tells UN that late abortion is a form of violence against children

The European Centre for Law and Justice has told the Human Rights Council of the United-Nations that late abortion as a form of violence against children, pointing out that some forms of late abortion are extremely violent.

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January 21, 2014

Up to 4700 babies aborted because they are girls in Britain: Independent

The UK Independent reports that the "abortion of female foetuses solely to ensure that families have sons is widely practised within some ethnic communities in Britain and has resulted in significant shortfalls in the proportion of girls".   Reporting on an investigation by the newspaper...

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