Two respected members of the House of Lords are set to table amendments to overturn the ‘abortion up to birth’ clause in the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill and to reinstate in-person medical consultations before at-home abortions.

Baroness Monckton MBE believes that allowing women to have abortions at any stage of pregnancy without sanction will lead to more women conducting dangerous late-term abortions by themselves. This is because, while women will not face criminal charges, the same does not apply to doctors who assist in an abortion post-24, weeks unless the mother’s life is at risk or the baby is deemed to have a disability.

And while an amendment to reinstate in-person appointments was rejected by the House of Commons, Baroness Stroud is seeking to outlaw the ‘pills-by-post’ scheme that has been in place since the coronavirus pandemic.

The moves follow a debate in the House of Lords on the Crime and Policing Bill, which contains Antonia Antoniazzi’s Clause 191. This clause, which allows women to abort their babies up to birth, was passed by MPs in June, with 379 in favour and 137 against. Lady Monckton’s amendment would remove it.

The baroness said: “This is an extreme social change for which there is no public pressure or demand, and could have tragic consequences for women, as well as leading to increased numbers of abortions of viable babies.

“This radical clause was added to the Bill after less than an hour of debate by MPs, and without the necessary scrutiny required for an issue of such seriousness. Whatever one’s views on abortion, this is not how responsible laws are made”.

She added: “A large number of peers have indicated that they will support my amendment to remove Clause 191″.

Lady Monckton said she was supporting Baroness Stroud’s amendment on in-person appointments, which she said would ensure “gestation, health risks and any coercion risks can be properly assessed”.

Lady Stroud said: “Supporters of decriminalising abortion up to birth cite a small number of prosecutions of women for illegal late-term abortions in recent years.

“The increase in such cases is a direct result of the ‘pills by post’ scheme, whereby women can receive abortion pills without an in-person consultation to verify their gestational age is within the legal limit”.

She added: “The solution to such cases is not to make matters worse by removing the legal deterrent against women performing their own at-home abortions up to birth, which would likely endanger women further, but to reinstate in-person consultations”.

Lady Stroud continued: “I, and many others, warned of the dangers of the ‘pills by post’ scheme when it was introduced. Sadly, those warnings have come true.”

Canada has become a killing field. Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Executive Director Alex Schadenberg has revealed that Canada has euthanized 90,000 people since 2016.

Based on government data and calculated 2025 estimates, Schadenberg estimates that around 90,000 Canadians have been euthanised since the Liberal government legalised the deadly practice in 2016.

“There were around 16,500 Canadian euthanasia deaths in 2024 representing 5% of all deaths,” he declared. “There have been around 90,000 Canadian euthanasia deaths since legalization.”

Schadenberg bases his estimate on 2024 data from Ontario, Québec, Alberta, and British Columbia.

“Since Ontario, Québec, Alberta and BC represent 87% of Canada’s population, and since there were 1056 more euthanasia deaths in those provinces in 2024, and since there were 15,343 reported euthanasia deaths in 2023, therefore it is safe to predict that there were around 16,500 reported euthanasia deaths in 2024,” he explained.

Schadenberg noted a 7.5 percent increase in euthanasia deaths across Ontario, Québec, Alberta, and British Columbia from 2023 to 2024.

Furthermore, as of December 31, 2023, the Canadian government has counted 60,301 euthanasia deaths in Canada since legalization.

“I am predicting that there were approximately 16,500 reported euthanasia deaths in 2024,” Schadenberg explained. “Therefore, as of December 31, 2024 there were around 76,800 reported euthanasia deaths since legalization.”

“Since this article is published in late September, 2025, it is likely there have been around 90,000 Canadian euthanasia deaths since legalization,” he said.

Tragically, euthanasia, or so-called “medical assistance in dying” (MAID), has become increasingly popular among Canadians as wait times to receive health care in Canada have increased to an average of 27.7 weeks, leading some Canadians to despair and opt for death instead of waiting for assistance.

Northern Ireland is seeing a clear reversal in religious decline led by the 18-24 age group, as part of what is being called the “Quiet Revival” in the United Kingdom.

Among the 1,200 adults surveyed in Northern Ireland by the Iona poll, 56 percent expressed a favorable view of religion, with Gen Z being the most likely to hold a “very positive” opinion.

The poll also indicated that the percentage of regular Catholic Mass-goers in Northern Ireland is twice as high as in the Republic of Ireland.

Gen Z is also the most likely to pray or read religious content than the 25-34 age group.

David Quinn, director of the Iona Institute, attempted to explain this phenomenon in the conclusion to their study.

“The fact that some kind of revival of interest in religion is occurring among the youngest age group surveyed should encourage all the Churches,” stated the report.

“It is not an outlier finding because polls elsewhere have seen the same thing. Maybe a growing subset of young people are concluding that secularism isn’t really giving satisfactory answers to life’s big questions.”

The religious revival among Gen Z is not a new phenomenon but part of a growing trend across the United Kingdom.

Recent data taken from a YouGov poll has indicated the religious decline in Britain has not only stopped but completely reversed course.

The polling agency reported that in 2018, only 4 percent of 18–24-year-olds attended church monthly. That number has now risen to 16 percent.

The study also revealed that Gen Z Catholics in Britain outnumbered Anglicans 2 to 1.

After observing the growing trend of religious revival in the region, Quinn made a final prediction in the report.

“In the future, there will probably be fewer ‘cultural Christians’ around, that is, people who say they are Christian but don’t practice,” stated the report.

“Instead, society could be divided between those who believe in religion and those who don’t believe, with little in between, that is between the religious and the ‘nones’.”

The report concluded, “The overall conclusion, however, is that religion is not disappearing, contrary to past predictions.”

The Pope has given a welcome surprise to traditionalists worried by some of his very untraditional positions on various key issues. During a meeting earlier this week with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Leo XIV addressed the dangerous decline in birth rates across Europe and called for greater support for traditional families and family values. 

“In recent decades, as we know, Europe has witnessed a significant decline in the birth rate,” the Pope said to Italian officials, as reported by Catholic Sat. “This requires commitment to promoting family-friendly choices at various levels, supporting their efforts, promoting their values, and protecting their needs and rights.” 

“‘Father,’ ‘mother,’ ‘son,’ ‘daughter,’ ‘grandfather,’  and ‘grandmother’ are, in the Italian tradition, words that naturally express and evoke feelings of love, respect, and dedication, sometimes heroic, to the good of the domestic community and therefore to that of society as a whole,” noted the Pope.  

“In particular, I would like to emphasize the importance of ensuring all families the essential support of dignified employment, under fair conditions and with attention to the needs of motherhood and fatherhood,” he continued. 

“Let us do everything we can to give confidence to families, especially young families, so that they can look to the future with serenity and grow in harmony,” urged the Pope. 

“There is a certain tendency, in these times, not to appreciate enough, at various levels, models and values developed over centuries that mark our cultural identity, sometimes even presuming to erase their historical and human relevance,” said Pope Leo. “Let us not disdain what our fathers lived through and what they passed down to us.”

A friend of a British couple who ended their lives at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland has shared her concerns that the husband coerced his wife into ending her life, according to media reports.

Ruth Posner, 96, and husband Michael, 97, neither of whom were terminally ill, told friends and family in an email message of their intention to end their lives at Swiss assisted suicide clinic, Pegasos, saying, “There came a point when failing senses, of sight and hearing and lack of energy was not living but existing that no care would improve”.

The couple added, “The decision was mutual and without any outside pressure”. 

However, a friend of the couple, Julia Pascal, has questioned this statement, sharing her belief that Ruth was coerced by her husband, Michael, into ending her life. 

Pascal, who had known the couple since 1990, described Ruth as being “totally under [Michael’s] control”, saying “Ruth was disempowered”.

“He was very dominant. I spoke to them and sent emails, saying ‘please don’t kill yourselves’. I tried to talk Ruth out of it, but I felt it was too far gone, that she was totally under his control”.

Pascal added, “Ruth sent the email, but I believe Michael would have dictated it to her”.

She described Michael Posner as a “dominant personality” who was “emotionally controlling”, saying, “[Ruth] was totally reliant on him”.

“They both said, ‘We have made up our minds, we don’t want to go gaga and we don’t want to go into an old people’s home’. I felt like it was not a decision of her own. She did not seem to have any resistance to him. He was the dominant personality and emotionally controlling”.

“[Michael] had influenced her over the years. She would have said ‘it was all my decision’, but really he was making it for her”.

More than 90,000 COVID fines have been overturned so far after the Spanish constitutional court declared the draconian 2020 COVID measures unconstitutional.

Spanish news outlet The Objective reports that 92,278 fines have been annulled as of September 3, 2025, following the declaration of certain provisions of the 2020 state of emergency decree, which was in effect during the first COVID-19 lockdown, as unconstitutional.

These penalties only represent the first wave of fines set to be annulled, with many more expected to follow. During the strict lockdown under the state of alarm in 2020, more than 1 million penalties were imposed nationwide, and an estimated 1.3 million people were fined for violating the prohibitive restrictions.

In its ruling, the Constitutional Court determined that certain sections of Article 7 of Royal Decree 463/2020, which pertains to the general prohibition on movement, implied an unjustified suspension of the fundamental right to freedom of movement, rather than merely a limitation. This suspension exceeded the power of the declared state of alarm, the court found. The court determined that such a severe restriction could only have been implemented under a stricter state of emergency, which requires more rigorous parliamentary proceedings.

This ruling now retroactively applies to all penalties issued during the 2020 lockdown, putting a significant burden on the administrative state. The Objective reports that “enforcement has been slow and uneven depending on each territory,” showing that the refunds could take months or years.

The Objective reiterates that the 92,278 cases revoked to date “are just the tip of the iceberg of a regulatory crisis” stemming from the draconian lockdown policies imposed by the Spanish government in 2020.

An Irish palliative care specialist has spoken against assisted suicide, saying death is not a solution.

During Palliative Care Week in September, themed “Living for today, planning for tomorrow”, Dr Regina McQuillan, spoke to the Irish Times about the issues with assisted suicide from an end-of-life care perspective.

McQuillan, who is a palliative care consultant, opposed Ireland’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2024 on behalf of the Irish Palliative Medicines Consultants Association when it was being debated. The Bill has stalled following a change of Government.

McQuillan stated that assisted suicide “creates the idea that for some situations, death is a solution to some problems”, and suggested that it should not be seen as a healthcare issue, but rather as “a societal response to distress”.

The doctor added: “research shows that most people look for assisted suicide or euthanasia when they lose independence”.

She criticised discriminatory attitudes towards disabled people and reasoned that people need help to live well rather than viewing a life dependant on care and support as one not worth living.

“Families up and down the country are being torn apart to deliver profits for big gambling corporations. If we’re serious about addressing this crisis, we must start by banning gambling advertising.”

That's th stark warning from Will Prochaska, the Director of the Coalition to End Gambling Ads,as new figures sahow that Britain is in the grip of a gambling epidemic.

Almost half of adults in Britain gambled in the past month, according to new statistics from the Gambling Commission.

The annual survey on gambling harm revealed that 2.7 per cent of adults in the UK (around 1.4 million people) experience problem gambling, an increase of around 100,000 from the previous year.

It identified slot machines and in-play sports betting – where customers bet on a sports game in real time – as particularly harmful.

Chief Executive of the Gambling Commission Andrew Rhodes said: “This year’s findings deepen our understanding of consequences from gambling and provide crucial insight into risk profiles among those who gamble most frequently.

“We strongly encourage operators to use this evidence to consider the risks within their own customer bases.”

He mentioned a number of measures that have been introduced to curb gambling harm, including light-touch financial vulnerability checks for those spending £150 a month, banning auto-play and slowing the speed of online games, as well as tightening age verification in betting shops.

While the Gambling Commission said that the increase in problem gambling was “statistically stable”, Will Prochaska, the Director of the Coalition to End Gambling Ads, disagreed.

He stated: “The Gambling Commission releases these statistics as if nothing is wrong. But there’s something very wrong when over a million people have a gambling problem and millions more are being harmed.

“Families up and down the country are being torn apart to deliver profits for big gambling corporations. If we’re serious about addressing this crisis, we must start by banning gambling advertising.”

One of the very first laws passed by the Bolsheviks after their seizure of power in Russia was the legalisation of abortion. Since then, an estimated 291 million unborn babies have been murdered in Russia, making the death toll more than ten times the number of Russian lives lost in the devastating Second World War.

While the number of abortions in Russia is now much lower than it was in Communist times, abortion is still legal and widely used in the country. The Putin government has tried various things to reduce the number further, but has fought shy of an outright ban.

Among those stepping into the breach to try to save the Unborn is Natalia Moskvitina, president of Women for Life. Her organisation, which has saved more than 9,000 babies from abortion, is working hard to create a culture of life in Russia. 

“From the very beginning, we simply took each pregnant woman and offered her a psychologist, a doctor for a second opinion, a lawyer, financial assistance, cribs, strollers, basically everything you might need when you find out you’re pregnant,” she says.

“But we realized that it was like fighting windmills. You endlessly look for these strollers and cribs, (and) search for money so that a woman isn’t afraid to be left alone with a baby in her arms,” she added. “But ultimately, laws need to be passed and the medical community needs to be retrained, and we started to focus on that closely.”

Speaking of the abortion mania which swept the world in the last century, she has this to say

“As this (pro-abortion) plague began to spread throughout the world, the mentality of society as a whole has changed. And the great misfortune is that it has especially affected women,” she said. “A woman began to equate the right to an abortion with the right to freedom itself. In other words, if you can’t terminate a pregnancy, it’s as if you’re in slavery.”

“But what was forgotten is that abortion itself is slavery, especially for women, because the psychology of accepting evil changes a woman entirely at her core. And women have become embittered,” she added. “(And) not just women, but society as a whole, and not only Russian society, but the world at large.”

“We are seeking comfort, seeking pleasure, we are mired in hedonism; we are not Christ-centered. And this is a big problem, because we have forgotten that a child, a family … is the clearest marker of happiness.”