The Government has announced plans to financially incentivise abortion clinics to provide ‘lunch-hour’ or ‘same-day’ abortions.

The changes were announced last week as part of the Renewed Women’s Health Strategy for England.

Under the current NHS Payment Scheme, abortion clinics are typically paid separately for each part of the abortion pathway – the consultation, scan, and procedure. This encourages abortion providers not to rush the process in one day, and also gives women more time to consider their decision before the actual abortion procedure happens.

Under the Government’s new approach (page 28), abortion clinics will now be paid a bundled payment for providing all stages of the process – and the Government has made it clear they are doing this to financially incentivise clinics to provide abortion “consultations, scans and procedures on the same day”.

This will financially incentivise the UK’s largest private abortion providers, BPAS, MSI Reproductive Choices, and NUPAS, which are paid to provide most of the abortions provided through the NHS, to rush women into abortions with ‘same day’ or ‘lunch-hour’ abortions.

Abortion provider MSI Reproductive Choice (formerly Marie Stopes International) has in the past marketed ‘lunch-hour’ abortion services – walk-in abortion services aimed to fit into a woman’s lunch hour.

The planned changes will likely see women being rushed through the abortion process, being given little time to process and contemplate whether to go ahead with what, for many, is a life-changing decision to have an abortion.

Already, women have complained of feeling they are on a conveyor belt towards abortion, and this has been corroborated by a doctor who used to work for one of the largest abortion providers in the country. 

There is also already evidence of a high-pressure environment in abortion clinics where women can be rushed into abortion decisions, with, for example, the Care Quality Commission finding MSI Reproductive Choices were paying staff bonuses for encouraging women to undergo abortions.

At all 70 Marie Stopes clinics, inspectors found evidence of a policy that saw staff utilise a high-pressure sales tactic, calling women who had decided against having an abortion to offer them another appointment.  

In what was described as a “cattle market culture”, staff felt “encouraged” to ensure women went through with abortions. Staff described this as a “very target-driven culture”.

Canada is in the grip of a state Death Cult. More than million unborn babies have been killed in Canada since the legalisation of abortion, and almost 100,000 people have died from euthanasia since Justin Trudeau’s government legalised it in 2016.

Growing unease about the deadly trends are enthusing ever-growing numbers of Christians to plan to join the 29th annual Canadian National March for Life on May 14th.

Organised by Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), the march marks Canada’s 1969 Day of Infamy, when the Liberal government’s Omnibus Bill unleashed legal abortion on the nation. The theme of the march is “Follow Me,” a reference to Jesus’s call in Matthew 4:19 to His disciples: “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

“When Jesus said ‘Follow Me,’ the disciples dropped everything. They didn’t hesitate. They moved,” organisers said. “Not all of us are called to do pro-life work full-time, but we are all called to sacrifice for the cause. Take up your cross! We cannot continue with ‘business as usual’ in the face of the human rights injustices of abortion, IVF, and euthanasia. Can we not drop our nets for a day to be part of the largest annual pro-life demonstrations in Canada?”

More than five million preborn babies have been killed in Canada since the Omnibus bill, with almost 100,000 people also dying from euthanasia since the government of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau legalized it in 2016 under the euphemistic heading of “Medical Assistance in Dying.” In addition, a countless number of lives have been lost to the embryo-destructive practice of in vitro fertilisation.

“The truth is, the world is watching Canada right now. They’re watching Canada with horror, right?” CLC’s Josie Luetke and Vice President Matthew Wojciechowski have said. “Our own government is killing people, up to almost 100,000 in the last decade, so we’re killing people at the end of life, and the beginning of life, and all throughout life.”

Fortunately, the March for Life ensures that killing is not all the world will see

A filmmaker and data analyst warned that the falling birth rate crisis across the globe couldn’t be “any worse.”

Stephen Shaw, who interviewed people around the world to investigate plummeting birthrates for his documentary Birthgap, recently told podcaster Brendan O’Neill that population collapse is a uniquely dangerous problem. This is because unlike the dangers of, say, nuclear proliferation and environmental issues, there are no known solutions to declining birth rates, according to Shaw.

“This is in a category of one in terms of how bad it is,” he told O’Neill. The majority of countries now have a fertility rate below replacement level, and as of 2024, the world fertility rate was 2.2, only very slightly above replacement, according to the Population Reference Bureau. 

Unlike commentators who pin the crisis on intentional choices to remain childless, Shaw says the reality is more complicated. In his analysis, he has found that unplanned childlessness is the main driver of falling birth rates. In fact, mothers who do have children have the same average family size as mothers decades ago.

It was in the 1970s that fertility rates in Western nations began to converge in a rapid decline. Shaw pointed out in Birthgap that from about 1973 to 1978, childlessness rates skyrocketed in many countries, including Italy and Japan, driving the declining birth rates.

Shaw points out that the current cultural norm is for young people to not take relationships seriously, let alone think about children, until they are in their mid- to late 20s.

“What do you do if you’re 18 in high school and you’re like your other classmates. You’re probably not thinking they’re the person you’re going to settle down and have a family with … probably college age too.”

By mid- to late 20s, “even if you wanted to take it seriously, you might get a different reaction from your love interest, who (thinks) you’re mad even to talk about children at those ages,” Shaw said in an effort to explain why the average age of starting a family today is 30.

“I think a lot of the issues we’re seeing in societies and particularly in younger people are actually consequences of the reengineering of our societies to deprioritize parenthood,” he said.

Shaw noted that most people aren’t aware of how short a woman’s fertility window is, and this means they can’t make a truly informed choice about whether to delay children, if they are in a position to have children in the first place.

An 84-year-old woman was offered euthanasia as a first option in a Canadian A&E.

Miriam Lancaster has spoken out about her horror at being offered Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) for a fractured sacrum, a bone at the base of the spine, in her first conversation with a doctor. Six weeks later, following treatment, she was able to walk her daughter down the aisle at her wedding.

One in 20 deaths in Canada now occur through its MAID programme.

Miriam shared her experience of being rushed to Vancouver General Hospital after waking up in excruciating pain early last year. She recalled: “Off I went to the Vancouver General Hospital, and I was approached by a young lady doctor. The very first words out of her mouth [were]: ‘We would like to offer you MAID.’

“I was taken aback—that was the last thing on my mind! I just wanted to find out why I was in pain! I did not want to die!”

Four weeks later, she was out of hospital, and in the year since, she has travelled to Cuba, Mexico, and Guatemala.

Another abortionist lie has been exposed! A new study published last week by JAMA Network Open revealed that despite a torrent of press propaganda claiming that pro-life protections threaten the lives of women, maternal mortality rates are actually falling in states that passed strong pro-life laws.

In Texas, for example, the maternal mortality rate fell by 2.4% since the Heartbeat Act passed in 2021; the study found that other states with strong pro-life laws saw a 3.3% drop in maternal mortality.

“The study was comprehensive and methodologically rigorous,” wrote Dr. Michael New, a statistician and senior associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. “The authors calculated quarterly maternal mortality rates for all 50 states and Washington, D.C., for the years between 2018 and 2023. Overall, they considered over 22 million births and over 12,000 pregnancy-related deaths.”

“When trends were held constant, states with strong pro-life laws on average actually experienced slightly faster declines in maternal mortality than states with permissive abortion policies.” Conversely, a 2025 study revealed that nearly 11% of women who took the abortion pill experienced complications.

The mainstream press has relentlessly pushed the narrative that pro-life protections for preborn children harm women. The goal is to present the public with a false choice: You can protect preborn children in the womb, or you can protect women — but not both.

That is not the case. The JAMA study, Dr. New noted, “compared maternal mortality rate trends in each of the 14 states that enacted either a heartbeat law or an abortion ban to the cohort of states where abortion remained legal. The results were interesting. Not one of these 14 states experienced a maternal mortality rate increase that was statistically significant.”

Indeed, New noted that in order to make the case that pro-life laws are dangerous for women (while ignoring the presence of preborn human beings altogether), abortion activists have “amplified a Gender Equity Policy Institute analysis that was not peer reviewed and largely focused on a few datapoints from Texas.” The new study actually reviewed data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

“No state with a strong pro-life law experienced a statistically significant increase it is maternal mortality rate,” Dr. New told LifeSiteNews by email. “When trends were held constant, states with strong pro-life laws on average actually experienced slightly faster declines in maternal mortality than states with permissive abortion policies.”

American pro-life hero Mark Houck has won a seven-figure settlement in federal court against the U.S. Department of Justice, which, under the Biden administration, egregiously targeted him in 2022.

“Today we have a huge announcement at 40 Days for Life and a huge victory for free speech,” declared Shawn Carney, President and CEO of 40 Days for Life regarding the lawsuit won by the organization’s attorneys on behalf of Houck and his family.

In September 2022, about two dozen heavily armed FBI agents, guns drawn, besieged Houck’s home, terrifying his wife and seven young children, before taking him into custody.

The charge, which stemmed from an incident where Houck protected his young son from an angry abortion escort, had already been thrown out by the District Court in Philadelphia but was then picked up by then-U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice.

Like many others who were targeted by Biden’s administration, the 40 Days for Life volunteer was charged under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Houck had faced up to 11 years in prison.

The Biden DOJ, working with the FBI, committed dozens of SWAT team raids that were quickly characterized as the political “weaponization” of the federal agencies against pro-lifers, Trump supporters, conservative Christians, and medical freedom advocates. 

The record lows America reached last year in its fertility rate are largely due to women delaying parenthood amid anxiety about the future, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Just over 3.6 million births were reported in 2025, 24,000 fewer than the year before. 

The Wall Street Journal dug deeper into the numbers for its analysis, finding the fertility rate at a record-low of 53.1 births per 1,000 women. More alarmingly, the total fertility rate dropped to 1.57 births per woman, below the replacement rate of 2.1 that is necessary for a native population to stop itself from shrinking.

The trend appears largely driven by women delaying parenthood until later in life, with 2025 the first time births to women in their late 30s exceeded births to women in their early 20s.

“People are waiting longer to enter parenthood and probably want to make sure that things are set in their lives before they do so,” argued Wendy Manning, co-director of Bowling Green State University’s National Center for Family & Marriage Research. “There might be a lot of uncertainty, and that might not be good for a society in general.” The teen birthrate fell 7% last year, extending a yearslong decline related to public-health campaigns and growing use of longer-acting contraceptives.

Manning attributed their doubts about starting families to financial and relationship struggles as well as concerns about the state of the nation and the world.

“We spent decades and lots of money trying to discourage early childbearing, saying, ‘This will ruin your life. This will ruin your kid’s life. Don’t do it,’’ University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Carolina Population Center director Karen Benjamin Guzzo said.

As the USA heads towards demographic winter and socio-economic disaster, polling from Gallup and Marist shows that public opinion on abortion has been trending in a more pro-“choice” direction for several years.

Parents and carers have a “moral duty” to ensure under-18s abort their babies, argued two academics on the extreme side of the pro-death lobby.

Professor Kimberley Brownlee and PhD student Alyssa Izatt, both at The University of British Columbia, claimed that “in relation to children, we should be ‘pro-abortion’” and promoted forced abortions for those who express a wish to carry their babies to full-term.

In a paper published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Ethics, the academics branded attempts to discourage under-18s from having an abortion as “antigirlism”.

Brownlee and Izatt said that adults should view a child’s “impregnation as a malady and take steps to terminate it”. Similarly, doctors should revise their approach “so that adequate medical care includes abortion care”.

They wrote: “A critic might balk at our contention that doctors should provide abortion care to a girl who has contrary preferences or an aversion to the procedure.

“Such a patient might interpret her pregnancy as a baby and feel love for it and a desire to be a mother. She might believe that by having an abortion she is killing her baby.”

In such instances, they proposed, carrying out an abortion might justifiably “require sedation or physical restraint”.

Canadian politicians have proposed new legislation to reduce access to euthanasia.

Premier of Alberta Danielle Smith stated that Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) must be limited to only those deemed to be terminally ill.  The Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act (Bill 18) also seeks to bar doctors from unilaterally raising MAID with patients, strengthen conscience protections, and ban MAID advertising in healthcare facilities.

Introduced in 2016, MAID was expanded in 2021 to include people with serious or incurable conditions but who do not have a terminal diagnosis. Euthanasia now accounts for five per cent of all deaths in Canada.

Premier Smith said, “MAID should not become a permanent response to a moment of crisis or despair that can change with care and time.”

She explained that the new measures under Bill 18 “strengthens safeguards and restores clear limits on eligibility to protect vulnerable Albertans facing mental illness or living with disabilities”.

The Premier added: “Those struggling with severe mental health challenges need treatment, compassion and support, not a path to end their life at what may be their lowest moment.”

The Mississippi Legislature gave final approval to legislation to criminalise the mailing of abortion pills as a felony drug trafficking offense.

House Bill 1613, originally intended to penalize individuals possessing 200 or more grams of illegal drugs, was amended to also criminalize those who “create, sell, barter, transfer, manufacture, distribute, dispense, prescribe or possess with intent to create, sell, barter, transfer, manufacture, distribute, dispense or prescribe” any “medicine, drug or any other substance prescribed or dispensed with the intent of terminating the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman to cause the death of the unborn child” without an in-person doctor visit.

The final version passed the state House 76-38 and the Senate 37-15 on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported, and now awaits a signature from Republican Gov. Tate Reeves to become law. Reeves is pro-life and expected to sign. Abortions are illegal in Mississippi except for cases of rape or medical threats to a mother’s life (in which abortion is not medically necessary anyway).

“The intent is to keep doctors from out of state from circumventing our current law,” said Republican state Rep. Celeste Hurst, who introduced the amendment to cover abortion drugs like mifepristone and misoprostol.

“The state of Mississippi has been pretty clear of where they are about their pro-life position,” Republican state Sen. Daniel Sparks added. “If people are circumventing that through the mail or through other mechanisms, then I think we’re trying to be consistent with what the law is.”

Mailing abortion-inducing drugs across state lines has become the abortion lobby’s most important tool for perpetuating abortion-on-demand and undermining pro-life laws, thanks to the difficulty of tracking pills shipped in nondescript packaging and pills usually taken in complete privacy.

The latest data from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute found 1,125,930 clinical abortions in 2025, a slight increase from 2024, that Guttmacher attributed in large part to abortion pills.