London mayor Sadiq Kahn is putting pressure on Transport for London (TfL) to display controversial advertisements which call for abortion to be decriminalised.

The posters, part of a campaign by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), urge voters to lobby MPs for a change in the law to allow a woman to kill her unborn baby at any stage of pregnancy without sanction.

TfL refused to accept the advertisements, informing the abortion giant that the campaign was unnecessarily critical of the police. Within days of the story breaking, Kahn launched an “urgent review” and called for the decision to be reversed.

BPAS launched the campaign across England and Wales in support of an amendment to the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill tabled by Labour’s Tonia Antoniazzi aimed at decriminalising abortion. The Bill’s Report Stage is expected to begin next week.

The display boards outline cases investigated by the police where a mother was suspected of illegally ending the life of her unborn child.

In a public statement, a TfL spokesperson said: “The proposed advertisement did not comply with TfL advertising policy because it made negative references about the police.”

BPAS responded that it will appeal against the decision and accused TfL of silencing the voices of women. Antoniazzi reacted to the news by claiming that the police “cannot be trusted with abortion law”.

A U.S. State has joined the movement to end the dangerous horror of chemical abortion. The Louisiana Legislature gave final approval to legislation to open anyone who helps facilitate a chemical abortion to civil suits, cracking down further on the abortion lobby’s efforts to sustain abortion-on-demand in pro-life states.

The Justice for Victims of Abortion Drug Dealers Act enables a preborn baby’s mother, father, and grandparents, as well as the mother’s legal guardian, to sue anyone who “performs, causes, or substantially facilitates an abortion” for damages, “regardless of whether the abortion resulted in the death of the unborn child.”

Damages would begin at $100,000 “for the provision of abortion-inducing drugs when it is reasonably foreseeable that the abortion-inducing drugs will be used by or provided to a pregnant woman for the purpose of inducing an abortion,” a heavy sum expected to have a severe deterrent effect. 

It passed the state House 59-25 last month, the state Senate 28-9 on Monday, and the final amended version was approved 77-18 by the House on Tuesday. It now goes to the desk of Republican Gov. Gov. Jeff Landry for his signature to become law.

Louisiana bans abortion throughout pregnancy except when deemed “necessary” to prevent the death of the mother “due to a physical condition,” to avoid “serious, permanent impairment of a life-sustaining organ of a pregnant woman,” or if two doctors agree that an unborn baby would not survive after birth. In such cases, a physician must “make reasonable medical efforts under the circumstances to preserve both the life of the mother and the life of her unborn child in a manner consistent with reasonable medical practice,” per its 2006 trigger law.

Last year, Louisiana enacted the Catherine and Josephine Herring Act, which puts abortion drug mifepristone and misoprostol on the state’s list of Schedule IV drugs under its Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances law, classifying them as having the potential for abuse or dependence. It makes possession without a prescription a criminal offense subject to significant fines and up to 10 years in prison. Since then, Louisiana officials have attempted to extradite a New York abortionist for mailing abortion pills into the state.

The legislature has also passed the Stop Coerced Abortion Act, which expands the definition of coercion under existing law to criminalize more tactics by which abusers pressure, force, or intimidate women into aborting their children. It too awaits Landry’s approval.

The inventor of the Sarco gas chamber assisted suicide pod, Dr Philip Nitschke, has announced the creation of a ‘kill switch’ implant for people with dementia that would automatically release a lethal substance into the user’s body once they stop responding to daily prompts.

Nitschke, who is nicknamed “Dr Death” has told the MailOnline that his ‘kill switch’ implant is nearing the test phase.. The device would be sewn into a patient’s body – most likely in their leg – and set to beep and vibrate daily to warn the patient to turn it off. 

If a patient’s dementia becomes so advanced that they ignore the beeping and vibrations, the mechanism would then release a currently unknown lethal substance into their body.

Nitschke said “You won’t forget to press it otherwise, because after the time comes it’ll start beeping and buzzing. If you really don’t know what this thing is doing, beeping and buzzing for a week I think you’ve lost a lot of capacity”.

“If you don’t know the risks that are involved by not acting, that is, that you will die, then you’re getting your wish from when you had it implanted”.

The pro-suicide campaigner believes his ‘kill switch’ could solve the so-called “dementia dilemma” – “the situation whereby someone suffering from the disease is seen as lacking the mental capacity to consent to their death”.

Alistair Thompson from campaign group Care Not Killing blasted the “chilling” plans, saying “This is yet another chilling development from Dr Death who brought us the personalised gas chamber”.

Thompson added “Not content with advocating for killing vulnerable terminally ill adults, he has turned his attention to those with neurodegenerative conditions”.

“But we should not be surprised, because when a society decides that some lives are worthless and should be ended, this is the slippery slope you quickly go down”.

The warnings came after Nitschke said people from the UK have already shown significant interest in his new device. Last year, ahead of Second Reading of the assisted suicide Bill, Nitschke announced he is “absolutely” keen on bringing his Sarco suicide machine to the UK if the assisted suicide Bill passes, and described his machine as a “stylish” and “elegant” option for assisted suicide. 

A person ends their own life inside the 3D-printed Sarco pod by pushing a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed gas chamber. The nitrogen causes them to suffocate to death.

Marriage is in crisis, and children pay the highst price. Family breakdown is the highest it has ever been due to the rise of cohabitation, a new study suggests.

The study’s author, Harry Benson of the Marriage Foundation, described the rate of family breakdown as an “epidemic”, and warned that it is set to get worse. He urged policy-makers to act, highlighting a host of negative social outcomes.

The report, ‘We need to talk about marriage’, found that nearly half of teenagers are not living with both of their natural parents by the age of 14 (45 per cent), and that family breakdown has tripled since the 1970s.

The study explained: “The driver of family breakdown is not divorce, now at its lowest level since 1970, but the collapse of unmarried families. Married families account for 85 per cent of intact parents yet just 30 per cent of family breakdown”.

It states: “The direct consequences of family breakdown include poverty, higher risk of mental health problems and poor exam results, and an annual bill to the taxpayer that exceeds the defence budget.”

“Family breakdown is likely to get worse”, the study added, “because of (a) the intergenerational transmission of family breakdown and (b) no sign of an upturn in marriage rates.”

It concluded: “We betray another generation if we don’t talk about this and do something about it. For the sake of the next generation of children, we badly need to re-embrace marriage.”

Although marriage does not “guarantee” couples will stay together, Benson explained how it does help: “The act of marriage has all the ingredients of the psychology of commitment automatically built in. We decide. One of us proposes a life together. The other agrees. Then we have a celebration in front of our friends and family.”

He added: “the poorest married couples are more likely to stay together than the richest cohabitees”.

A number of brave and decent MPs have spoken in defence of the unborn and the welfare of expectant mothers in Parliament.

During a Westminster Hall debate triggered by a petition demanding that abortion be decriminalised, it was pointed out that such a move risks a significant rise in the number of unborn children being aborted and would endanger women’s health.

In Great Britain, abortion is currently permitted for most reasons up to 24 weeks, and up to birth if the unborn child is deemed to have a disability. Inducing a miscarriage outside of the exemptions remains a crime, punishable by up to life in prison, though convictions are rare and have only resulted in very short sentences.

The architect of Westminster’s assisted suicide Bill, Kim Leadbeater, welcomes the baby-killing proposal, arguing: “Whatever stage we are at in our lives, it is important that we are allowed to make choices about our own bodies, free from the fear of criminalisation or judgment”.

However, many MPs opposed a change to the law, including Independent MP Alex Easton, who said the public wanted tighter controls on abortion, not further liberalisation.

He explained: “Polling by Savanta ComRes, a highly respected polling company, has shown that 70% of women support a reduction in the abortion time limit, and 91% want an explicit ban on sex-selective abortions.”

Father of the House,  Sir Edward Leigh, warned that if the proposals go ahead “it becomes possible to have an abortion at home up to birth”. That, he said, would surely “endanger women’s health.”