Britain's top doctors' body has wieghed in on the euthanasia debate. The British Medical Association (BMA) has affirmed that “assisted dying is not a medical treatment”, highlighting many of the issues with legislating in this area that will be of concern for MPs.

The BMA, the professional association and trade union representing and negotiating on behalf of all doctors in the UK, agreed at its Annual Representative Meeting last month that any legislation around assisted suicide should specify that “assisted dying is not a medical treatment”, and that it “must not alter the fundamental principles of the NHS”. 

Motions passed at the Meeting also agreed that any assisted suicide legislation must be opt-in, to ensure that “no doctor would be required to have any involvement” with assisted suicide. The organisation affirmed that any assisted suicide legislation must explicitly protect the rights of medical students and doctors to not be forced to participate in any aspect of assisted suicide.

With regard to funding, the BMA agreed that any assisted suicide regime should be required to be funded separately from core NHS practices, and “must not result in any de-prioritisation or reduction of funding for core general practice, mental health, or palliative care services”.

The large liberal body in the European Parliament are shocked by the forthright views of brave pro-life Cardinal Robert Sarah.  during a conference speech before the European Parliament on Wednesday, he denounced gender ideology and Islamic fundamentalism as “apocalyptic beasts” that threaten to destroy the family and humanity itself.

In the conference in the EU Parliament building entitled, “Europe and Africa: In Dialogue with Cardinal Robert Sarah,” which also included speeches delivered by European Parliament Vice-President Antonella Sburi and the apostolic nuncio to the European Union, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Guinean prelate slammed the evils of abortion, homosexual “marriage,” gender ideology, and Islamic fundamentalism and their impact on Africa, Europe, and all of society.

While decrying the fact that the UN, as well as European and other Western powers, have sought to impose gender ideology on African nations in exchange for financial aid, Cardinal Sarah echoed remarks that he made during the 2015 Synod on the Family that gender ideology, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, are “apocalyptic beasts.”

“In 2015, during the Synod on the Family, I said, and I do not take back a single word today, that ‘gender ideology and Islamic fundamentalism each represent, in their own way, two apocalyptic beasts that threaten to destroy not only the family, but humanity itself, the image of God,'” he said.

An American-born Catholic teacher in Scotland was fired for telling her pupils that, because of her religion, she opposes abortion. 

Sarah Morse, 66, lost her job at Arbroath High School in November 2025 and is now taking legal action against the Angus Council, the local government authority.

Morse had been asked by curious 14–15 year-old students her opinions concerning a wide range of topics, including abortion, transgender issues, ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), and President Donald Trump.

The Georgia-born teacher explained that she is against abortion but told the class it was “fine to disagree” with her view.  

Morse told her class “I am a faithful Roman Catholic and I am against it.” 

She was then summoned to the school office at the end of the day and said that she was “stunned” to find that she had been fired for her statements just hours before. 

“I was summarily dismissed … I was not offered any sort of right of reply, asked for my account of what happened or how my legally protected beliefs were raised in the context of a history class, and the head teacher wouldn’t even see me,” Morse told The Sunday Times. 

“To be ‘canceled’ and lose my livelihood because of my religious identity is a terrifying precedent for the teaching profession in Scotland,” she said, according to The Times.

Oreland's abortion Holocaust continues to gather pace. Figures released by the Department of Health in Ireland show there were 10,600 abortions in Ireland in 2025, a 59.02% increase since legislation introducing abortion on demand came into effect in 2019, when 6,666 abortions took place. This brings the total from 2019 until the end of 2025 to almost 60,000 abortions. 

Before new abortion legislation came into effect in Ireland in 2019, the number of abortions that took place in England and Wales for women who were Irish residents in 2018 was 2,879. A further 32 abortions were reported to have taken place in Ireland under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, taking the total number of abortions for Irish residents in 2018 to 2,911.

The latest available data, for the year 2023, shows that 235 residents of the Irish Republic travelled to England and Wales for an abortion. In the same year, Irish abortion statistics show that 10,033 abortions took place in Ireland, and of these, 9 were for women who had travelled from Northern Ireland.

Commenting on the figures, Eilís Mulroy of the Irish pro-life group Pro Life Campaign said “The latest figures are deeply concerning. The fact that 10,600 abortions occurred in Ireland in a single year is a very sobering indictment of how Ireland’s abortion regime is operating. It means that 1 in every 6 babies in Ireland now loses their life to abortion”.

“8 years on from the introduction of abortion, incredibly, there is still no State-backed service whose sole purpose is to ensure that women conflicted about having an abortion can access timely information and practical support if they wish to continue their pregnancy. The State-funded agencies responsible for addressing unplanned pregnancy operate as a de facto fast-track service to abortion. Even a cursory review of these agencies’ websites suggests that their structures are overwhelmingly geared towards abortion”. 

Jersey has legalised euthanasia. The British island's proposed law that allows adults who are terminally ill to commit suicide with the assistance of a doctor has been granted Royal Assent after the bill was approved by the island’s self-governing legislature in February.

The autonomous island under the British Crown, located 14 miles off the Cotentin Peninsula of northwest France in the English Channel, will become the first of the British Isles and the first British territory to legalize assisted suicide.

Minister of Health and Social Services Tom Binet expressed his delight over the Royal Assent being granted: “Our focus now is on continuing our work to get the service set up and running.”

The “Assisted Dying Law” will come into force once it is registered at the Jersey Royal Court. It is expected to come into effect next year.

In November 2021, Jersey’s States Assembly decided that “assisted dying” should be allowed “in principle.” In May 2024, it voted in favor of drawing up laws for assisted suicide after the government announced its plan to introduce the practice. In February this year, the law was passed in a 32-to-16 vote.

The far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is pouring $25 million into the USA's 2026 midterm elections, under the guise of advancing “key civil rights issues.”

The ACLU announced on July 6 that it and its Voter Education Fund are spending $13 million to “educate” voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, and North Carolina on candidates for state legislature, state supreme courts, and secretary of state races; plus $12.5 million on ballot measures pertaining to “expanding the right to vote, protecting the right to abortion, fighting back against anti-trans measures, and protecting state courts from politicized judicial selections” in Kansas, Missouri, Montana, and Virginia.

“This isn’t just hypothetical: officials across the country have taken action to protect their residents from attacks on our rights and freedoms,” the group declared. “Through our Firewall for Freedom initiative, our efforts have helped secure over 135 executive, legislative, or municipal actions.”

The massive interference in the elections comes on top of $2 million announced by Planned Parenthood Action Fund to target nine vulnerable Republican incumbents in the House of Representatives and a $23.5 voter mobilization campaign launched by Reproductive Freedom for All (the group formerly known as NARAL).

"We know that Christianity is currently the most persecuted religion worldwide, both through bloody persecution and structural discrimination." That's the stark truth uttered by Cardinal Gerhard Müller in the course of a level-headed but very serious warning that Europe is threatened by mass migration and the growing influence of Islam.

In a German-language interview on the YouTube channel Kontrapunkt, Müller addressed the issues of mass migration, Islam, and low birth rates that are leading to a seismic demographic shift in Europe.

While he acknowledged that Muslims who come to live in European countries have the right to practice their religion, he said that “with this mass immigration of Muslim fellow citizens from cultures foreign to all of Europe, the problem is precisely that Islam is not just a religion … but that it also always claims political power and not only influences the culture but becomes dominant within it.”

“And that can only lead to a confrontation with our Christian culture – our view of humanity, which is based on the belief that every person is created by God, that all people are equal before God, and that this must also be reflected in equality before the law,” Müller continued.

“And that’s precisely where I see the problems – problems that aren’t just on the horizon, but are in fact already here – namely, that parts of the public sphere are being taken over, or that in schools and kindergartens, even Christian children are required to observe Muslim customs during Ramadan, or that Christian children, teenagers, or adults are restricted in their normal civic lives – their Christian lives,” he stated.

“And we see this, after all, in some cities in Europe where there’s a Muslim majority: while individuals there may well be peaceful, there can also be a group, a minority, that is aggressive and then seizes power and seeks to control and manipulate everyone else according to their own ideas.”

The former prefect of the Congregation (now Dicastery) of the Doctrine of the Faith noted that in most Islamic countries Christians live under oppression and are often “restricted or treated as second-class citizens.”

“There are, after all, many countries with Muslim majorities, where Christians are persecuted, in some cases even by state authorities, but also by certain mafia-like gangs that resort to violence,” Müller said. “And we know that Christianity is currently the most persecuted religion worldwide, both through bloody persecution and structural discrimination.”

Routine hospital pastoral ministry may fall foul of abortion buffer zone laws, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has threatened.

Following the conviction of retired pastor Clive Johnston for preaching the Gospel within one of Northern Ireland’s controversial abortion censorship zones, questions have been asked as to what else might be deemed criminal behaviour. The Christian Institute is helping Pastor Clive to appeal.

When asked on the implications of legislation for clergy and pastors “going about their normal day-to-day work in hospitals”, Chief Constable Jon Boutcher said that prayer, Scripture reading and carrying a Bible within a designated area ‘may constitute an offence’.

The Chief Constable explained that where a pastoral visitor is invited to pray with a patient receiving end-of-life care, for example, “and that patient is not attending for abortion services, this activity falls outside the scope of the Act”.

But, he added, where “it takes place within a Safe Access Zone, the lawfulness of that activity will depend on whether it could reasonably influence, cause distress to, or impede a protected person nearby”.

He stated: “As with prayer, scripture reading conducted at the express request of a patient or their family, with a patient not attending for abortion services, is not the conduct this legislation was designed to address.

“However, the same principle applies – if such activity takes place within a Safe Access Zone and a reasonable person would recognise it as capable of indirectly influencing or distressing a protected person, an offence may be committed, regardless of the consensual nature of the activity between the clergy member and their patient.”

He said that carrying a Bible “through public areas of hospitals” or providing pastoral ministry “within wards or hospital grounds” may also be illegal under the Act.

Mr Johnston held an open-air service on the fringes of the buffer zone around Coleraine’s Causeway Hospital last year.

His actions – preaching “For God so loved the world” while standing near a large cross inside the zone – were deemed “reckless” as to whether they would ‘influence’ someone accessing the hospital’s abortion services. He did not mention abortion, nor were there banners or placards.

Five days after delivering her premature baby girl at just 29 weeks, mother Taylor Plemmons was finally able to hold her daughter, Margot.

Taylor described the moment she was able to hold her daughter for the first time as “the sweetest and scariest feeling in the world”.

“When the nurse placed her in my arms, I exhaled for the first time since seeing two pink lines”, explains mum Taylor. “She was impossibly small, far tinier than my mind could comprehend, yet perfectly formed. Ten tiny fingers and ten tiny toes”, she says.

“When I began to speak, she lifted her eyes and settled against me. In that moment, the fear quieted”, Taylor reminisces. “I knew she was fragile, but I didn’t yet understand the depth of her strength. After so much uncertainty and loss, I was finally holding my daughter, and that was all that mattered”.

At around 10 weeks of pregnancy, Taylor was diagnosed with a subchorionic haematoma, a condition in which blood forms between a baby’s amniotic sac and the uterine wall. This caused her to experience several haemorrhages.

Doctors offered Taylor the possibility of having an abortion. Instead, Taylor says, the news “ignited a determination in me to fight for her”, and she “focused on the present moment and what was directly in front of me, rather than all the ways things could go wrong”.

As the pregnancy continued, Taylor developed further complications. At 16 weeks, her alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) level was elevated, indicating that baby Margot was at increased risk of certain health problems. Three weeks later, Margot was diagnosed with severe growth restriction. At 23 weeks, Taylor developed pre-eclampsia, a condition that can cause serious complications during pregnancy. She was hospitalised so that she and her unborn baby could be closely monitored for the remainder of the pregnancy.

Although the medical team worked “tirelessly to prolong the pregnancy as safely as possible”, Taylor’s condition continued to worsen. At 29 weeks, her pre-eclampsia progressed into HELLP syndrome, a rare but life-threatening pregnancy condition.

“We were given one hour’s notice to proceed with an emergency C-section to save both of our lives”, Taylor explains. “It was a surreal moment. I had spent my entire pregnancy preparing for an early delivery, so in a strange way I was grateful to have made it to 29 weeks. At the same time, I was in shock”.

Despite being repeatedly warned that baby Margot might not survive, Taylor celebrated the moment she finally held her daughter in her arms. And eventually, after 82 days in hospital, Margot was able to return home on Good Friday to her mum, dad, and her older sister, Scottie.

Reflecting on her experience, Taylor says it transformed the way she views motherhood and the gift of life.

“When I became pregnant with Margot, I carried a heightened awareness of just how miraculous life truly is, how many things must go right, how many cells must divide perfectly, and how deeply a mother’s body is asked to carry and sustain a child”, she explained. “This experience stripped away my desire to be perfectly put together or to live a curated life. It shifted my priorities entirely”.

“I want to cherish my daughters for the miracles they are”, Taylor explained. “If my story can help someone feel less alone, then something meaningful has come from the hardest seasons of my life”.

On June 29, outgoing U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that the British House of Commons is “the gayest Parliament … in the world.”

Starmer, who resigned on June 22, hosted an LGBT event for “pride” month at 10 Downing Street. He was introduced by lesbian Labour MP Olivia Bailey, who joked that her hairstyle was inspired by Starmer’s and introduced him as a “lesbian style icon.”

Starmer, beaming, responded to that introduction with great pleasure. “Lesbian style icon, I like that,” the prime minister said. (To imagine any of his esteemed predecessors uttering such a line stretches the mind to breaking point.)

“I’m really proud that we’ve got the gayest Parliament,” he declared. “I don’t think, just of all time, anywhere in the world, I don’t think there’s any Parliament that is gayer than this Parliament. That is fantastic.” 

The U.K. Parliament has 76 members who identify as LGBT, with 62 MPs from Starmer’s Labour Party, four from the Tories, one from the Green Party, and eight from the Liberal Democrats. Starmer emphasized during his speech that the Labour government will function as the political arm of the LGBT movement in every respect possible.

“I want to be clear that all lesbians, all gay, all bi and trans people – that this government will defend your rights,” he stated. “We have to stand against the politics of division.” He highlighted his “full trans-inclusive ban on abusive conversion practices” that outlaw “a very sinister idea … trying to suggest that identities aren’t legitimate.”

Ironically, Starmer’s “conversion therapy ban” is an extraordinarily totalitarian piece of legislation that defines “abusive conversion practices” as including “controlling or coercive words or behavior” and “psychological or emotional pressure". This is aimed not only at Christians and other traditionalists who offer help to confused individuals to go straight, or at least to avoid getting themselves poisoned or mutilated, it could even make it illegal for parents to affirm their child’s biological sex and criminalize body-affirming therapy for people who struggle with gender dysphoria.