Euthanasia deaths in Queensland, Australia, have increased by 57.14% in two years as a record 836 people died in 2025-26, amid calls from the official review board to consider changing the eligibility criteria.

According to the ‘Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board Annual Report’, there were 532 euthanasia deaths from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024, accounting for 67.09% of all assisted dying deaths, while from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026, there were 836 euthanasia deaths, accounting for 77.26% of all assisted deaths in the region.

The total number of people who have ended their lives by euthanasia or assisted suicide in Queensland has also increased for the financial year 2025-2026 to a record 1,082, marking a 36.44% increase since the first full year the practice was legal in 2023-2024 when there were 793.

The report reveals that the number of people requesting assisted suicide or euthanasia who were recorded as not having accessed palliative care at their first assessment increased from 359 in 2023–24 to 503 in 2025–26, an increase of over 40.11% in two years.

The total number of people who have ended their lives in Queensland through this programme since it was introduced in 2023 is now 3,192.

A person has killed themselves using assisted suicide drugs originally prescribed for their partner, a report in the Australian state of Victoria has revealed.

The Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board’s Annual Report explained that the original patient died in hospital in April 2026 before they could take the lethal drugs they had been prescribed, and the subsequent suicide most likely occurred two days later. By law, the partner had been required to return the drugs to a pharmacist within 15 days, but instead used them to commit suicide.

Between June 2019 and July 2026, there have been 2,452 batches of lethal drugs given to assisted suicide applicants, but there are only records of 1,755 people dying by those means. This leaves 697 drugs left unaccounted for, some of which may have been returned or could still remain in people’s homes.

Despite reporting the case, the Review Board claimed to find “no evidence that any aspect of the VAD request and assessment process, or the dispensing of the substance, contributed to the circumstances that followed”.

It continued: “The program continues to operate safely, and this incident does not alter the Board’s assessment of the safety and integrity of the VAD framework.”

It is extraordinary to give that reassurance when drugs supplied through the system appear to have been used to end someone else’s life.

Just how far will the abortion industry go to put pills into the hands of African women? 

The Population Research Institute (PRI) decided to find out.

Its research team opened WhatsApp and messaged “Nurse Nisa,” a chatbot built by Ipas, the North Carolina-based abortion giant, together with the tech firm Dimagi. It operates in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Within a few messages “Nurse Nisa” — who of course is not a nurse at all — had assured them that abortion pills are safe for “women and girls of all ages,” sent a link to an online pregnancy calculator, and walked them through taking 12 misoprostol pills. 

The website behind that link went further: misoprostol, it said, can be bought at a pharmacy, “sometimes without a prescription.” 

Much of what the phony nurse said was false. The rest was dangerous. Not surprising since “she” is practicing medicine without a license!

Nisa’s opening line is breezy: “Safi! Let’s talk about abortion.” The pills, she assures us, are safe for “women and girls of all ages.”

Says who? Not the drug labels. The U.S. label for mifepristone admits that the drug’s effects by age “have not been investigated.” The label for misoprostol carries a caution for women over 35 and heavy smokers, who were left out of its trials. The manufacturers don’t know the answers. Ipas’s chatbot claims to know them for every schoolgirl who logs on.

On September 30, actress Sharon Stone told Michelle Obama that she had an abortion when she was 18, triggering a conversation in which both women insisted that if men could get abortions, it would be available in vending machines.

Michelle Obama launched the IMO podcast in March 2025 with her brother Craig Robinson, and it swiftly garnered a reputation for being a platform for the former first lady’s grievances. Wednesday’s episode was no different.

Stone began by stating that women’s care has been under-researched, and then claimed that some want to “prosecute women for having a miscarriage,” an objectively false characterization of pro-life protections for pre-born children. “What kind of arcane bulls**t is this?” Stone demanded. (The kind an abortion activist actress invents is the correct answer here.)

Plans to illuminate Belfast City Hall in celebration of abortion have been halted, following a backlash.

The council decided to seek legal advice after the DUP used a ‘call in’ procedure to object to the building being lit up for International Safe Abortion Day on 28 September.

Over 21,000 people signed a petition against the plans, and protests were organised outside the landmark by pro-life campaigners and the Free Presbyterian Church.

The founder of pro-life group Precious Life, Bernadette Smyth, told those gathered outside the landmark: “We have lights here on this building but they are not green, they’re white. It is the light for life, the light of people who refused to be silent, the light of councillors who stood up and challenged the decision.”

Rev Ian Brown from the Free Presbyterian Church said the protesters were there to “raise witness and be a voice for the voiceless”. He stated: “Commemorating the slaughter of the innocent is reprehensible.

Jim Dowson, founder of the LifeLeague, told journalists covering the main protest that Sinn Fein's effort to celebrate the mass murder of unborn children by turning the City Hall green was an attempt to add insult to injury for the loyalist community, which has made common cause with Catholic opponents of abortion. "We have fought the purveyors of Death every inch of the way here, and we will fight them every inch of the way back until abortion is once again illegal in Northern Ireland. And we will stand with the good people of the Republic to make their unborn babies safe again as well."  

The Labour Government has admitted that it is no longer a criminal offence for a woman to intentionally deceive a doctor about the gestation of her baby in order to receive abortion pills by post beyond the legal time limit in England and Wales, at any stage of pregnancy, right up to birth.

The Government has published an Equalities Impact Assessment on the ‘abortion up to birth clause‘ in the Crime and Policing Act 2026, which makes it no longer illegal for women to perform their own abortions for any reason, including sex-selective purposes, and at any point up to and during birth.

The shocking Assessment also reveals that it would no longer be a criminal offence for a woman at full term to lie to an abortion provider about her unborn baby’s age to obtain abortion pills to end the life of her fully formed unborn baby.

It states that a woman could “deceive a registered medical practitioner about the gestation of her pregnancy in order to procure an abortion by pills via pills by post beyond the 10-week time limit” without the possibility of a criminal conviction for doing so.

Through the passing of this law, women who have previously been convicted or cautioned for criminal offences related to abortion in regard to their own pregnancies will be pardoned, and relevant records are to be deleted. The Government has stated that it does not know how many arrests or investigations this will impact, as data is not available relating to this. This means that Parliament has legislated for a potentially widespread deletion of records, the extent and scope of which the Government cannot quantify.

Dublin’s “obscene” celebration of abortion has been rebuked by Senators, TDs and Councillors.

Mansion House and Trinity College were illuminated in green to mark ‘International Safe Abortion Day’ on 28 September, despite reports that neither the council nor the public were consulted.

Abortions in the Republic of Ireland have surpassed 10,000 a year for three years in a row, with 10,600 babies killed last year.

The Christian Institute’s Director Ciarán Kelly called the display a “vile act”, saying: “10,000 plus abortions a year is a tragedy to be mourned, not celebrated.”

Independent TD Carol Nolan described it as “an obscene gesture” and “a symbol of how degraded the appreciation of innocent human life has become”.

Despite decades of pro-death propaganda, a clear majority of Irish voters still believe that there should be a period of reflection in which a pregnant woman can change her mind before going through with an abortion.

The Irish public continue to support the statutory three-day reflection period for an abortion, despite attempts to remove it, a poll has confirmed.

Of 875 adults in the Republic of Ireland contacted by Amárach Research on behalf of the Pro-Life Campaign, 47 per cent believed that the waiting period should be “retained”. Far fewer - only 38 per cent - said that it should be “removed”, with 16 per cent unsure.

In June, deputies backed a Sinn Féin Bill to remove the reflection period by 86 votes to 70. The proposal will now be considered by an Oireachtas committee.

Pro Life Campaign spokesperson Eilís Mulroy welcomed the poll’s findings: “We are very encouraged, though not surprised, by these results. Public support for retaining the three-day reflection period has been evident for months and, if anything, appears to be strengthening.”

“As more people hear the full case for retaining the three-day reflection period, we believe public support will grow even stronger. Replies to parliamentary questions show that, over a five-year period, 10,534 women did not return to proceed with an abortion after the three-day period had elapsed.

“That’s an incredible figure and one that, in our view, proves the life-saving impact of the waiting period.”

She concluded: “It is truly shocking that Sinn Féin and other backers of abolishing the three-day wait didn’t even take the time to formally consult with any of these women before pressing ahead with their agenda to get rid of one of the last remaining safeguards under Ireland’s abortion on demand regime.”