The Scottish Deputy First Minister has warned that Scotland could become a hub for “death tourists” from across the United Kingdom if assisted suicide becomes legal there.

The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill would legalise assisted suicide for adults resident in Scotland with no prognosis requirement specified, while the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill would legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales for those with a prognosis of six months or less. 

In November, MSPs rejected an amendment to the Scottish assisted suicide Bill that would have instated a six-month terminal prognosis requirement, which the proposed Bill in England and Wales currently has.

The Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Kate Forbes, warned that individuals from across the UK could travel to Scotland to end their lives by assisted suicide due to the looser restrictions on the eligibility criteria proposed law there. 

“It is a risk”, Forbes said. “That wider point around looser definitions is a matter of concern for residents in Scotland, as well as those who might want to relocate to Scotland”. 

Forbes made her comments as part of a cross-party statement from MSPs who are concerned about the potential ramifications of legalising assisted suicide in Scotland. 

Among other MSPs who made comments during the statement was Conservative MSP Edward Mountain, who recently disclosed that he is suffering from bowel cancer. Mountain said there was a “real risk” that individuals would travel to Scotland from around the UK to avail of the looser assisted suicide restrictions. 

“There is always the chance that people will see Scotland, if this bill passed, which I hasten to say I hope it doesn’t, is an easier place to end your life than down south”, he added. 

Frontbench Labour MSP Michael Marra also criticised the assisted suicide Bill for these reasons, saying the issues that would likely arise as a result of incentivised cross-border travel had been “hugely underexplored” during the debates in Holyrood and Westminster. 

“It’s a very complex issue, about how the two systems might interact”, he continued. 

Concerns around this kind of “death tourism” were initially raised by Dr Claudia Carr, a medical ethics expert at the University of Hertfordshire’s law school. 

She highlighted that people in England and Wales who are suffering from a terminal illness would likely realise that Scotland would have “a more positive climate for an assisted death and move accordingly”. 

Sick abortion activists have published a children’s book to promote abortion to five to eight-year olds.

The picture book titled ‘Abortion is Everything’ is illustrated with bright, colourful drawings, and is advertised as ‘framing’ abortion “as the actualization of a uniquely human superpower”.

The book is written by Rachel Kessler alongside activist Amelia Bonow, whose group ‘Shout Your Abortion’ (SYA) aims to “arm existing activists, create new ones, and foster collective participation in abortion access all over the country”.

The book is marketed as speaking “directly to five to eight-year-olds about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions”.

Posting about the book’s release, SYA claim: “Parents, caregivers, and educators who work with children have long been searching for a tool to talk with kids about abortion”.

They say the book promotes abortion as “a tool that allows human beings to shape our destinies” and to “make choices that lead us towards the life we envision”.

Instead of using the word ‘woman’ or ‘mother’, it talks about “human beings” who have “an organ called a uterus”, and in its illustrations, it compares having an abortion to letting go of a balloon.

One mother commented on the SYA post promoting the book: “Love it. I‘ve been speaking to my kids about abortion since they were small and it is so empowering to hear a child say: ‘You don‘t have to be pregnant if you don’t want to be.’”

The book received substantial backlash on social media, with one commenter saying: “Why would you even want to talk to kids about this????”

Another criticised it for “trying to sanitize abortion”, stating: “But abortion isn’t everything. It ends everything — a heartbeat, a future, a God-ordained life. This is one of the clearest pictures of a culture of death I’ve seen. Parents must speak truth early so children know life is sacred from the moment of conception.”

A surge in the killing of unborn babies has seen the number of abortions in Northern Ireland has reached its highest levels since the law was liberalised in 2020.

Statistics from the Department of Health reveal that there were 2,899 abortions between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025. While this is only a 3.7 per cent rise from the previous year, it is 84 per cent higher than in 2021.

Since Westminster’s liberal abortion regime was introduced in 2020, 11,192 abortions have been carried out in the Province, which has a population of less than two million.

The vast majority of the abortions (88.9 per cent) involved abortion pills, where a woman under 10 weeks’ gestation can take misoprostol at home without medical supervision.

TUV MLA Timothy Gaston accused the media of being “deeply dishonest” for claiming that the new abortion regime was only needed for “hard cases”, as “8,000 abortions in four years since decriminalisation did not happen because of those exceptional situations”.

He warned that it is “anything but compassionate to ignore the social pressures — economic, familial, and cultural — that push women toward ending a pregnancy instead of receiving real support”.

Earlier this year, NHS England data revealed that over 54,000 women have been hospitalised following at-home abortion complications since 2020.

Research organisation Percuity reported that, according to NHS data, 1-in-17 women who had an abortion at home required hospital care for complications including incomplete abortions, infections, and excessive haemorrhaging.

The DIY scheme, where women take both mifepristone and misoprostol at home, now accounts for the majority of abortions since it was introduced, initially as a temporary measure, during the coronavirus pandemic.

An Ohio surgeon has been charged with stuffing crushed abortion pills in his pregnant girlfriend's mouth while she slept.

Hassan-James Abbas, 32, was indicted after allegedly procuring abortion pills under his estranged-wife's name and holding his sleeping girlfriend down to force the crushed pills into her mouth in December of last year. 

'He got on top of me and put his fingers in my mouth,' his girlfriend told WTOL 11. 

'I laid there and I went back and forth in my head on if he was gonna kill me. That was my biggest thought, that he was going to kill me.'

After splitting from his wife in October 2024, Abbas' girlfriend of two months told the doctor that she was pregnant, according to documents obtained by the Daily Mail from the State Medical Board of Ohio. 

'I told him I took a test, I sent him a picture of it. You know, I was happy to talk to him about it and have a conversation. He called me on the phone and was screaming at me,' the alleged victim told the outlet, adding that she only learned of his marriage separation over the phone call. 

Abbas, a surgical resident at the University of Toledo, had urged her to abort the pregnancy but she told him that she wanted to keep the child, the documents stated. 

The doctor then allegedly obtained medication intended for abortion uses from an out-of-state telemedical abortion provider the next day, according to the documents.

He was indicted on November 5 by a Lucas County Grand Jury for all six charges detailed in the Board's summary, according to the indictment. 

The victim's attorney, Kelle Saull, said in a statement to WTOL 11 that they were 'relieved that the criminal process has finally begun,' and added that their team is not 'closing the door on future indictments as this case unfolds.' 

Abbas may face a civil penalty from the board of up to $20,000, in addition to 'any other action the board may take.'

The doctor is scheduled to be arraigned on December 19. 

Supporters of state-sanctioned murder and pro-life peers are engaged in what can best be described as 'legal trench warfare' in the House of Lords. Critics of the Labour-backed push for euthanasia are fighting for every inch of ground, while peers in favour of assisted suicide are trying to undermine even the limited safeguards against blatant abuse which have been inserted into the bill as amendments.

The founder of Operation Rescue and over a dozen other pro-life witnesses were jailed yesterday after blocking a Memphis, Tennessee, Planned Parenthood.

Randall Terry, Joan Andrews Bell, and Terrisa Bukovinac were among the approximately 17 rescuers taken into custody yesterday morning. As of publication time, a number of his companions have already been released, but Randall and Terrisa were still in prison when we last heard.

These brave pro-lifers are on the front line. This Sunday, pray for them, their families, and anend to the violence and injustice of abortion.

The leftist war against Christianity has met with a welcome set back in Belfast.

Traditionalists in Italy are shocked and outraged by the legally-sanctioned kidnap of three home-schooled children. The measure by which a juvenile court in Italy ordered the removal of three children from their parents has sparked heated debate between the government and the judiciary and fiercely split public opinion.

On November 20, three minors who lived with their parents in a farmhouse in the middle of a forest in Abruzzo, Italy, were removed by order of the Juvenile Court of L’Aquila, following checks conducted after a suspected mushroom poisoning incident. These checks revealed a dwelling without water, electricity, or heating, as well as the absence of vaccinations for the children and school enrollment.

The court order, filed with detailed reasoning, identified among the main reasons for intervention the children’s condition of isolation, deemed harmful to their fundamental right to social life and psychosocial development. Institutional reaction erupted when members of the Meloni government criticized the decision, raising doubts that led to a sharp confrontation with the juvenile judiciary.

“I cannot deny my perplexity regarding the decision taken,” declared Archbishop Bruno Forte, ordinary of the Diocese of Chieti-Vasto, where the case unfolded. “Dialogue could have been pursued with determination. I wonder whether the proportion between the parents’ actions and the measure is justified.”

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio discussed the matter, considering the possibility of sending ministerial inspectors to L’Aquila – an initiative which, while falling within the executive’s prerogatives, was perceived by many as a potential influence on the juvenile judiciary. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini called the judges’ decision a “shame,” claiming that the state’s intervention had overstepped “into the realm of private education.”

In the face of silence on the matter from the Italian Episcopal Conference, a moderate but clear stance was expressed by Forte, who declared himself “perplexed” by the outcome of the proceedings. The prelate urged institutions to “recognize the space rightly due to the family and parental authority,” while affirming the need to act “in the service of the greatest good of the children.” His stance further amplified the resonance of the case, placing it also within the ethical debate on the relationship between public authority and the educational role of parents.

The episode gained political significance at a time when the Meloni government is promoting a reform of the separation of judicial careers lines, a project that envisions two distinct and non-communicating paths between judges and public prosecutors, in order to better define functions and responsibilities. The clash surrounding the “Forest Family” is seen as a test of the tension between judicial independence and the political direction of the executive, a topic long fraught in Italian political debate.

The family, of Anglo-Australian origin and composed of spouses Nathan and Catherine Trevallion and their three children aged between 6 and 8, lived in a farmhouse immersed in the Abruzzo forest. The entire episode originated from a health check following a suspected mushroom poisoning involving one of the minors. This incident led social services and competent authorities to inspect the family’s residence, organized according to a self-sufficient lifestyle, disconnected from essential service networks.

Scottish taxpayers are furious to learn that their taxes are being given to a radical feminist group to help fund their campaign for one of the most extreme pro-abortion policies in the world.