An Irish family discovered via WhatsApp that their mother had secretly ended her life by assisted suicide in Switzerland and that her ashes would be posted to them, raising concerns that the same thing will happen in England and Wales with Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide drive.

Maureen Slough, 58, from Cavan, Ireland, had told her family that she was going on holiday to Lithuania with a friend last month, but instead went to Swiss assisted suicide clinic, Pegasos, to end her life.

According to her daughter, Megan Royal, Maureen had a successful working life after being promoted to the role of executive officer in the civil service before retiring last year. Maureen’s partner, Mick Lynch, described her as being “full of life” after speaking to her on the day of the assisted suicide and had no idea of her plans to end her life. Megan explained that her mother had tried to take her own life last year after two of her sisters had died, believing she was not in her right mind when she decided to end her life in Switzerland.

Megan was reportedly horrified to learn of her mother’s death via a WhatsApp message sent by Pegasos, who told her that her mother’s ashes would be sent by post to her. Both Megan and Mick received “goodbye” letters, handwritten by Maureen, and sent from Switzerland, in the weeks after Maureen’s death. 

Megan said “They should not have allowed her to make that decision on her own. This group did not contact me, even though my mother had nominated me as next of kin. They waited until afterwards and then told me she had died listening to an Elvis Presley song”.

Megan said that her mother paid Pegasos €15,000 and travelled alone to the clinic in Switzerland, saying “She had told us she was going to Lithuania, but she had confided in two people that she had other plans, and ­after a series of concerned phone calls she said she would come home, but then we got the WhatsApp message to say she had died”. 

After the family queried Pegasos’s decision to go ahead without informing them, the Pegasos group said it had received a letter from Megan saying she was aware of her mother’s wishes and accepted them. Pegasos also said it verified the letter through an email response to Megan via an email address which Maureen had provided. Megan denies any contact with Pegasos, and the family believe Maureen may have forged the letter and then confirmed it through an email address she had herself created.

Pegasos was at the centre of a similar controversy earlier this year when a British mother, Anne, ended her life at the Pegasos  assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland without informing her family.

As Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is considered in the House of Lords, both Maureen and Anne’s cases raise important questions about how families in the UK would respond to a loved one’s assisted suicide taking place in secret. With no requirement in the Bill to inform or involve family, there is nothing to prevent assisted suicides taking place in secret in England should it become law.

Nikki da Costa, former Director of Legislative Affairs at 10 Downing Street, expressed these sentiments in a post commenting on Anne’s case on X, saying “This is just like Kim [Leadbeater]’s Bill. NO mechanism for family to be told nor raise concerns either before the person’s life is ended or afterwards. Imagine being the parent of a terminally ill 18 year old and finding out afterwards your child chose this to relieve the burden on you?”.

The gory business of murdering babies for profit is coming to an end in yet another American state. A “regional” abortion facility will shut down, as Planned Parenthood recently announced it is closing its two remaining locations in Louisiana. The two facilities are part of the Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast network, which also announced that it is closing two facilities in Texas. Notably, the facilities are part of the same network caught on video by pro-life journalist David Daleiden selling body parts of premature babies.

“After more than four decades of operation in Louisiana, Planned Parenthood will cease all operations in the state effective September 30, closing its two remaining clinics in Baton Rouge and New Orleans,” WAFB reported.

The news outlet reported “legal, political, and financial pressures from Louisiana officials and lawmakers” led to the closures.

Louisiana Right to Life celebrated the closures and noted the New Orleans facility was meant to be a “regional” hub for killing preborn babies.

“Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry are leaving Louisiana. But the pro-life movement is here to stay. We will always love and serve both mom and baby,” Executive Director Benjamin Clapper stated.

He pointed out that the closures are yet more proof that Planned Parenthood is not a legitimate healthcare organization but rather is dedicated to abortion.

“Today’s announcement is further indication that their priority has always been abortion and their profit margins rather than helping women,” Clapper stated.

Despite growing concerns overthe world's ageing population and crashing birth rates, the globalist United Nations continue to push abortion.

The UN's far-left Committee on the Rights of the Child reportedly intends to reiterate support for letting minors commit abortions in an upcoming comment on an international children’s rights treaty.

The committee is currently seeking input on a general comment on the status of compliance with the international Convention on the Rights of the Child. Among the grievances pertaining to children’s “access to justice,” according to the committee, is reportedly lack of “access to safe abortion services for adolescent girls.” (The treaty itself does not mention or guarantee abortion.)

Representatives of Argentina panned the proposed draft, arguing it “requires substantial structural revisions,” and that its reference to abortion poses a danger to parental rights: “In its current form, it exceeds the Committee’s mandate under the Convention and the UN Charter, violating the principle of good faith in treaty interpretation.”

Additionally, the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture warned that the draft’s references to “gender” could be construed as creating obligations to allow minors to be exposed to potentially devastating “transition” procedures that do “not provide access to the justice of the child but rather an irreversible damage on a subject not yet mature.”

The UN has long been notorious for pushing a pro-abortion agenda from a pretext of “human rights,” from criticising nations that ban abortions to attempting to establish an international “right” to abort,

Pro-Life campaigning just landed another heavy blow on the abortion industry in the USA. Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt issued an executive order on Friday strengthening the state’s commitment to protecting unborn life. 

The order directs state agencies to cease all public funding for individuals or organisations that commit or are “affiliated with” abortions. 

“I just signed an executive order to shut down any backdoor funding to abortion-affiliated groups,” Stitt wrote on social media. “Oklahoma is a pro-life state. And if you’re tied to the abortion industry, you won’t get a dime of taxpayer funding here.”

The order follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic that affirmed states have the right to decide which providers can participate in their Medicaid programs. This includes the right to block providers connected to abortion.

“Oklahoma is a pro-life state, and our policies should reflect that at every level of our government,” the governor said in a statement. “We won’t allow tax dollars to indirectly subsidize and flow into the abortion industry under the guise of women’s health. My order makes sure every public dollar aligns with our values and supports providers who respect life at every stage.”

A Pennsylvania judge has sentenced a man convicted of the savage murder of a young mother and her unborn child to two life sentences with no possibility of parole.  

Shawn Cranston was convicted in June of first-degree murder for killing 23-year-old Rebekah Byler and second degree murder for killing her unborn child. Byler was six months pregnant at the time. 

Notably, while Cranston was convicted of murder for killing Byler’s unborn baby, Pennsylvania allows abortion up to 24 weeks for any reason and up to birth for “medical” exceptions.

During the trial, a prison inmate who testified said that Cranston admitted to killing the young Amish mother during a burglary attempt.

The inmate told the jury that when Byler encountered Cranston in her living room, she started screaming. Cranston reportedly recounted to him that he, “Spun her around and started choking her. She didn’t pass out, so he slit her throat.  He said she didn’t die quick enough, so he shot her.”  

“It is hard to fathom conduct more heinous than brutally killing a young expectant mother and her unborn child in her home,” said Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday at the time of Cranston’s conviction in June. “Our homes are supposed to be our safe haven — this defendant violated the sanctity of home to commit these truly evil acts.”

The decision of Scouts Northern Ireland to support the Belfast Pride parade has been slammed by Christians and parents. Christian Institute.

The LGBTQ event was billed as a protest against the Province’s ban on puberty blockers for gender-confused children. The organisers also outlined other contentious political ambitions for the march, including support for a ‘conversion therapy’ law and opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling on biological sex.

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service did not apply to take part in this year’s parade, while uniformed officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland have not been allowed to march at the pro-LGBT event since 2023.

Ahead of the parade, Scouts NI announced that all involved in the movement were “welcome to represent us and attend” as a way “of demonstrating our commitment” to ‘inclusivity’.

Activists behind London Trans+ Pride 2025 have claimed that tens of thousands joined its demonstration on Saturday.

An event organiser complained that there had been an “explosion against trans+ rights in the last five years, from puberty-blocker bans to the Supreme Court’s contested ruling in April”.

One placard at the event stated: “Nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday; except top surgery”. Another read: “DIY or Die. Trans emancipation. Not rainbow capitalism. Arm trans people.”

The world’s youngest premature baby ever to survive is now a thriving one-year-old.

Nash Keen was born at 21 weeks, one day earlier than the previous Guinness World Record holder for the “most premature baby”, and weighed just 10oz. He spent the first six months in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa, but is now home.

In Great Britain, abortion is currently permitted for most reasons up to 24 weeks, but up to birth if the unborn child is deemed to have a disability.

His mum Mollie thought they would lose him. She said: “I had to take it one day at a time. I focused on the small victories and leaned hard on my support system.”

She noted: “Being in the NICU as long as he was, you’d think that he would be, you know, more fragile and stuff. And he’s not. He’s a very determined, curious little boy, and he’s just all smiles all the time”.

Nash was able to leave hospital in January. Mollie commented: “I’m really, really, really enjoying my time with Nash and just not taking a single moment for granted. Celebrating him and watching him grow has been the greatest joy of my life, honestly.”

Miracle do happen! Disney just released a movie that is being hailed as “the most pro-life Hollywood blockbuster in a long time, and maybe ever,” according to critics and moviegoers alike — who for years have grown accustomed to suffering disappointment after disappointment from Disney’s aggressively woke offerings. 

The Fantastic Four: First Steps, while not overtly Christian, is nonetheless imbued with an unmistakable pro-life, pro-family message from start to finish. There is not a whiff of wokeness, of immorality, or even pro-LGBTQ+ child grooming that has so often saturated Disney-produced movies and TV. 

“Of all places, Disney just delivered what might be their most family-affirming, life-celebrating film yet,” Christian evangelist and author Daniel K. Morris noted. “A bold, beautiful, and surprisingly pro-life message.”

“The value of life permeates every action and reaction in the film,” The Federalist’s Kylee Griswold declared. 

Perhaps the most amazing scene occurs when Mom, Sue Storm, uses her superhuman invisibility power to reveal the humanity of the baby boy in her womb during an ultrasound.   

One of the largest abortion mills in the Western world is to shut down. Abort-for-profit Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast announced on Friday that it is closing two locations this autumn, including its massive Prevention Park death facility.

Planned Parenthood is closing its 78,000 square-foot, seven-storey Prevention Park outlet along with the Southwest abortion center on September 30. Its Northville, Northwest, Spring, and Stafford locations will remain open but be absorbed into Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, per a Houston Chronicle report. Planned Parenthood’s funding has been drastically cut, forcing locations across the country to close their doors.

Several pro-life activists celebrated the decision. Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins called the news “massive” in an X post.

“This is massive news for the pro-life movement and shows the direction that Planned Parenthood is going, which is down,” said Shawn Carney, CEO of 40 Days for Life, in an interview with Fox News Digital.

A self-described “cancer thriver” has warned that assisted suicide could cause terminally ill people to be “written off”.

Councillor Rue Grewal was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2017 which is now stage four. It caused her to spiral into despair, and she is certain she would have chosen assisted suicide then if it had been available to her.

Now she is a district councillor and works with the cancer support charity One Vision. She has spoken against assisted suicide, criticising its lack of safeguards for terminally ill people struggling with their mental health.

Cllr Grewal explained that following her diagnosis: “I didn’t even want to do my treatment. My mental health was so bad”.

She described going through “a moment – or period – of despair that felt permanent, but wasn’t”, and said she understood how easily a person can fall into thoughts “that it would be better – for you, for everyone – if you just slipped away”.

She added: “I just don’t want people to be written off and think that’s the easy option”, and shared that she “would have gone down that road”.

The councillor expressed her anger that MPs voted Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill through the House of Commons, saying it causes her “deep, visceral, personal fear”.