Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, the UK pro-lifer famously arrested for praying silently near an abortion clinic, discovered that she is being investigated by the police … for the third time. 

In November 2022, Vaughan-Spruce was arrested by two police officers while standing on the sidewalk in Birmingham, England. She told them she was not protesting, saying, “I might be praying in my head, but I’ve said nothing out loud.” The video of her arrest went viral.  

Just a few weeks later, she was arrested again for “silently thinking prayerful thoughts on a public street”; her case was dubbed by Alliance Defending Freedom UK, which is defending her, as “the first ‘thoughtcrime’ case prosecuted in 21st century Britain.”  

After her first arrest, she was acquitted at the Birmingham Magistrate’s Court because the prosecution could not provide evidence (the prayer, of course, was happening in her mind). After her second arrest, she issued a claim against the West Midlands Police and won, receiving a payout of £13,000 “in acknowledgement of her unjust treatment and the breach of human rights.”  

Spruce-Vaughan’s claim had successfully alleged “two wrongful arrests and false imprisonments; assault and battery in relation to an intrusive search of her person; and for a breach of her human rights both in respect to the arrests and to the onerous bail conditions imposed on her.” Despite that victory, she is being investigated a third time, and states that she feels “harassed” by law enforcement. 

According to Christianity Today, West Midlands Police “have confirmed that a live investigation is underway” and that Spruce-Vaughan “had not received any formal notice that she was being investigated and only found out by accident when a complaint she lodged against the force for harassment was rejected on the grounds that there was currently a live investigation into her.” 

Spruce-Vaughan has continued to pray near the Birmingham abortion clinic weekly, and Alliance Defending Freedom stated that police officers have watched her and “on regular occasions” approached her to ask if she is praying in her head.  

“Despite being fully vindicated multiple times after being wrongfully arrested for my thoughts, it’s unbelievable that I am still being harassed by police for silently pray in that area, and yet again find myself under investigation for the same prayers I have said for 20 years,” Spruce-Vaughan said. “Silent prayer cannot possibly be a crime – everyone has the right to freedom of thought.”  

According to West Midlands Police, “We are currently investigating allegations that a 48-year-old woman has interfered with access to or provision of abortion services between January and July this year, and are liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service as enquiries continue.” 

The world’s most premature baby, born 133 days early at just 21 weeks gestation, and given a 0% chance of survival, has defied the odds and just celebrated his first birthday. 

On 5 July 2024, baby Nash Keen was born at exactly 21 weeks gestation, a full 133 days earlier than his expected due date based on a typical full-term pregnancy (280 days). After he turned one last month, Nash was acknowledged by Guinness World Records as the world’s most premature baby. Tiny baby Nash weighed just 285 g (10 oz) and measured 24 cm (9.5 in) long when he was born, and was given a 0% chance of survival by doctors.

But baby Nash proved them all wrong and, just last month, Nash celebrated his first birthday with a small group of friends and family, where he was given new outfits, toys, nappies and the certificate from Guinness World Records, showing that he holds the Guinness World Record for the youngest ever premature baby to survive.

Neonatologist Dr Patrick McNamara spoke about the unlikely chances of Nash surviving at such a premature stage, saying “I vividly remember the conversation with the parents when I told them his chance of survival is 0%. When you’ve never had anyone survive at 21 weeks, that’s what the data says at that gestational age”.

Following his unexpected early arrival, Nash then spent six months being cared for at the hospital’s NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) before being allowed to go home in January 2025.

Dr Amy Stanford, the neonatologist who supervised Nash’s resuscitation, said “When babies are born at 21 weeks, we’re not sure if they’re going to be strong enough or big enough for our tiniest equipment to be able to do what it needs to do”.

Dr Stanford added “It’s so rewarding now to see him. You would have no idea when you look at him that he is the world’s most premature baby. We’re immensely proud of Nash, we could not be prouder of him. He is truly a miracle”.

Abortion giant Planned Parenthood is being hit by a big backlash over its obsession with promoting the child-mutilating trans agenda.

As federal and state governments take aim at the abortion giant’s taxpayer funding, some of Planned Parenthood’s own donors and other insiders are worried that “mission creep” into broader left-wing activism has exacerbated the organization’s struggles, according to a recent report. 

According to the Wall Street Journal, former Planned Parenthood president Leana Wen’s brief tenure following the late Cecile Richards caused internal consternation for her attempts to broaden the mission into non-“reproductive” issues, but a “different kind of mission creep set in” under current president and self-proclaimed “social and racial justice” warrior Alexis McGill Johnson, alienating donors with activist stands on topics like gender, gun control, Senate rules, and the size of the Supreme Court.

Paradoxically, now the “only mention of ‘women’ among its promotional items are T-shirts emblazoned with ‘Stand with Black Women,’” WSJ notes, while the “organization’s pervasive language around ‘pregnant people’ is intended to be inclusive of [so-called] transgender people, a cause that the organization connects to abortion … under the umbrella of ‘bodily autonomy.’”

“I don’t understand the national office’s thinking in not allowing anyone to talk about women’s health anymore,” said former PP CEO Pamela Maraldo, who resigned over dissatisfaction with her self-described “safe, legal, and rare” approach to abortion. “These really, really left-wing ideological postures are to me just as off-putting as they are on the right when they’re counter to basic Americans’ common sense.”

The report notes that perceived threats to abortion “access” tend to help the organization’s fundraising, but such boosts are not sustainable and tend to only support more activism.

“Though the Dobbs ruling led to a surge in fundraising, donations have dropped 15% from a decade high of $428 million in 2022, and most of those funds go toward advocacy” as opposed to Planned Parenthood’s “services,” WSJ notes. Further, “Some former staff members describe the national office as bloated, with too many employees making too much money in undefined roles. (Planned Parenthood did not respond to a request for comment.) McGill Johnson received more than $900,000 in compensation, according to the organization’s most recent publicly available tax returns.”

“Meanwhile, many clinics are underfunded and operate at a deficit,” the report added. “Some former executives said the national office’s outspoken progressive agenda can make it harder for affiliates to gain the support of local and state governments. Over the past two decades, clinics have closed or left the network. (Planned Parenthood would not provide specific numbers.)”

A former MP from New Zealand has spoken out against legalising assisted suicide in England and Wales based on his own country’s experience, saying that safeguards which were promised are “so rarely effective”.

As Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill nears its Second Reading in the House of Lords, former New Zealand MP, Simon O’Connor, has warned British politicians that the assurances about safeguards surrounding assisted dying legislation were given in New Zealand too, but “have proven so rarely effective”. Writing in the Telegraph, he said that his colleagues “had repeatedly been assured that the safeguards [on the New Zealand assisted dying Bill] were absolute, inviolable, and complete”.

“But, if the experience of those who have passed these laws is anything to go by, British parliamentarians should think very carefully before passing the assisted dying Bill. Safeguards so often promised have proven so rarely effective”.

New Zealand became the first country in the world to introduce assisted suicide and euthanasia by popular vote in a binding referendum on 19 September 2020, and this came into force on 7 November 2021.

Under the current law in New Zealand, a person can end their life by assisted suicide or euthanasia if they are thought to have six months left to live.

However, there have been attempts to expand the law beyond the current six-month prognosis limit. Last year, ACT Party MP Todd Stephenson tabled a Members Bill to remove this.

Recent figures have shown a significant surge in euthanasia and assisted suicide deaths, as cases of euthanasia and assisted suicide increased by 37.21% for the year April 2024 to March 2025 compared with the same period the previous year, according to data released by the New Zealand Ministry of Health.

O’Connor compared the ‘death panels’, on the assisted suicide Bill – which will include a more junior legal figure, a social worker and a psychiatrist – with “The End of Life Review Committee” in New Zealand. This committee, O’Connor explained, contained “three experts – two health practitioners and one medical ethicist” whose “role was to review assisted deaths and to scrutinise complex cases where something may have gone wrong”. 

However, the panel did not work as intended. “One of the Committee’s original members resigned over serious concerns about its ability to supervise the implementation of assisted suicide and euthanasia. Another member was pushed out, it is thought, because she was raising too many concerns about the operation of the new law. Two out of three members were gone”.

“Both subsequently went public and stated that the Committee’s oversight of the law was so limited that wrongful deaths could go undetected. They said they were ‘extremely concerned’ about how little information they received relating to patients’ deaths, leading to them feeling ‘constrained to the point of irrelevance’”, he said.

O’Connor warned of the dangers of a “slippery slope”. “We, like British MPs, were promised that the eligibility criteria would be tight and that claims of a slippery slope were a ‘fallacy’”, he said. ACT Party leader David Seymour MP called for the six-month requirement to be scrapped in 2022, only a year after the law came into effect in 2021.

O’Connor also highlighted the experience of Oregon, which UK assisted suicide campaigners, Dignity in Dying, cite as a model for rolling out legislation, saying “Oregon  – one of the first jurisdictions to legalise assisted dying – has seen its eligibility criteria stretched to include patients with anorexia, diabetes, or arthritis. Around half of those opting for assisted suicide now cite feeling like a ‘burden’ on others as a motivating factor for them”.

O’Connor also highlighted the dangers of the assisted suicide law in Queensland, Australia, even though, he said, that “Queensland’s law was said to have taken extra time to progress through parliament to make sure the law would guarantee that every death was ‘truly voluntary’, ‘without coercion’, and with the strictest safeguards”, 

Despite this, O’Connor points out that “patients there have killed themselves with others’ drugs”. Earlier this year, a man in Queensland nearly died after allegedly taking his partner’s lethal drugs for an assisted suicide.

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.”