Welsh doctors and nurses reject the effort to push euthenasia on their people. More than 250 health care professionals have called on MSs to deny legislative consent to Westminster’s assisted suicide Bill.

In an open letter to Senedd members organised by campaign group Our Duty of Care, signatories warned that Kim Leadbeater MP’s Bill would impose assisted suicide on the nation’s devolved healthcare system.

The Legislative Consent debate is scheduled to take place on the 24 February. According to convention, the Senedd’s consent is required for a UK Bill to be implemented on a devolved issue. In 2024, members of the Welsh Parliament refused to endorse a motion backing assisted suicide by 26 votes to 19, while there were nine abstentions.

Doctors, nurses and other health practitioners said: “We know that care provision currently fails too many, but this Bill is not the answer.”

They highlighted the Bill’s failure “to recognise the risks from mistaken diagnosis or misinformation”, to “assess suicidality”, to provide adequate oversight and “independent scrutiny”, and to protect vulnerable patients from coercion.

The signatories asked: “Will the Senedd concur with UK Parliament providing patients the means to take their own lives when we know they will not get a hospice bed or meaningful counselling?”

“We urge the Senedd to decline legislative consent connected to this deeply flawed Bill.”

A church that was banned from a university’s freshers event has successfully defended its right to book a stall there.

Grace Church Greenwich had been attempting to reserve a place at Goldsmiths University’s Freshers’ Fair, but were told by Native – the external company responsible for the booking process – that “due to a recent update in our company policy, we are no longer able to facilitate bookings for religious groups at these events”.

Good News for Everyone, formerly GideonsUK, reportedly experienced similar problems at multiple universities around the UK.

The church has paid for a stall at local freshers’ fairs for several years, with the aim of connecting with Christians and interested unbelievers alike as they start university, offering them free coffee and speaking about Jesus.

Minister Andrew Sach said: “Some of these campuses have no Christian Union, so stalls like ours are the only gospel witness to the thousands of students who attend.”

The Christian Institute's legal department moved to deal with the problem, writing to Native to point out that the ban constituted “direct discrimination on grounds of religion or belief contrary to sections 13 and 29 of the Equality Act 2010”.

He argued that both Grace Church and Good News for Everyone “have grounds for a claim under the Act”, but that legal action could be avoided if Native agrees to allow all future bookings from Grace Church and other religious groups.

Following the letter, the company suspended its policy of restricting bookings from religious organisations with immediate effect, but did not make any admission of liability. As a result, both Grace Church and Good News for Everyone are now in the process of booking their Freshers’ Fair stall for September 2026.

“(I)n the ancient pagan world, discarding children was routine ....... for example..... the child sacrifice of the Mayans.”

“The mark of barbarism is that we treat babies like inconveniences to be discarded rather than the blessings to cherish that they are. But the inheritance of our civilization is something else, the fact that as Scripture tells us, each life is ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’ by our Creator.

“The March for Life … is not just about a political issue …. It’s about whether we will remain a civilization under God or whether we ultimately return to the paganism that dominated the past,” he continued.

With these powerful words, US Vice President J.D. Vance, during his speech at the 2026 National March for Life, reaffirmed his support for the pro-life movement. He emphasised the fact that every life is a gift from God, not a burden or inconvenience, compared abortion to the human sacrifice of pagan societies, and touted several pro-life victories achieved during the first year of the Trump-Vance administration.

“We have to be clear, we can not be neutral, our country cannot be indifferent whether its next generations live or die,” the vice president said. “Think about it, what ultimately gives meaning and life to the United States of America? Every civilization has been forced to answer (this question). We march today because you have an answer to this question, about what kind of civilization we are, what kind of civilization we’re going to become in the future.”

An elderly woman was euthanased within hours of her husband claiming she changed her mind after insisting she wanted to live.

Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying laws allow patients to request a painless death if an assessor agrees their terminal condition meets certain requirements.

Patients often wait weeks, but it can happen the same day the application is lodged if judged to be medically urgent by a MAiD provider.

Now a report by the Ontario MAiD Death Review Committee raised concerns that safeguards were being eroded that led to questionable deaths.

One case study was that of a woman in her 80s referred to as 'Mrs B' who had complications after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

She went into severe decline and opted for palliative care, and was sent home from hospital with palliative support with her husband caring for her.

But as her condition got worse, her elderly husband struggled to care for her even with the help of visits by nurses.

'Mrs B reportedly expressed her desire for MAiD to her family. In response, and on the same day, her spouse contacted a referral service on her behalf,' the report read.

However, she told the assessor that she 'wanted to withdraw her request, citing personal and religious values and beliefs' and instead wanted hospice care.

Her husband took her to hospital the next morning where doctors found she was stable but her husband was 'experiencing caregiver burnout'. 

Mrs B's palliative care doctor applied for in-patient hospice care due to her husband's burnout, but it was quickly denied.

Her husband asked for an urgent second MAiD assessment later that day and a different assessor showed up. 

This one judged her to be eligible, but the original one, who was contacted as per protocol, objected.

'This MAiD practitioner expressed concerns regarding the necessity for 'urgency' and shared belief for the need for more comprehensive evaluation, the seemingly drastic change in perspective of end-of-life goals, and the possibility of coercion or undue influence (i.e., due to caregiver burnout),' the report explained.

Their request to meet Mrs B the next day was declined by the MAiD provider as 'the clinical circumstances necessitated an urgent provision'.

Instead, a third assessor was sent who agreed with the second one, and Mrs B was euthanased against her will that evening.

The pro-death lobby in Scotland just suffered another setback. Audrey Nicoll MSP has announced her withdrawal of support for Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide Bill.

As a former police officer and convener of Holyrood’s Criminal Justice Committee, the SNP MSP explained that her experience with the “most vulnerable” in society has convinced her that changing the law would result in some people being coerced into an assisted suicide.

The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill, which would allow those deemed to be terminally ill who have been resident in Scotland for at least twelve months to get help from a medic to kill themselves, passed Stage 1 by 70 votes to 56. Several MSPs said they only voted in favour of the proposals to allow time for debate, and with Nicoll’s withdrawal of support, only six more need to follow suit for the Bill to fall at the next vote.

In an open letter to her fellow MSPs, Nicoll explained: “The reality is that some individuals will be subject to coercion and pressure, whether directly or indirectly and in ways which may be subtle and difficult to enunciate.”

“The bill has significant ethical, social and legal implications, and given the experience in other jurisdictions where practice has shifted away from that originally intended, I am not currently reassured that a timely post legislative scrutiny process would take place.”

The key part of the transcript of Archbishop Viganò's keynote address at the REGINA Magazine Conference in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, January 17th.

'In the Christian social order, Church and State are both subject to the Supreme Authority of God, the author of both nature and grace, who has established that the Church should concern herself with the sanctification of her members for the sake of eternal salvation, and that the State should ensure its citizens an orderly, prosperous, and secure life. It is Christ himself, through his vicars on earth, who exercises his Kingship in civil society and his High Priesthood in ecclesiastical society.

'The Revolution has overturned these purposes. We now find ourselves with a Catholic hierarchy that propagates doctrinal and moral errors, endangering the eternal life of the faithful; and civil rulers who are demolishing the social fabric of nations and persecuting their own citizens, promoting immigration, crime, the perversion of morals with homosexuality and LGBTQ+ ideology, the impoverishment of families and businesses, and the control of the masses.

'This betrayal could only have happened for one reason, which unfortunately the contemporary mentality is unable to understand, having been indoctrinated by centuries of anti-human and anti-Christian ideologies. The reason is the abandonment of God in the name of a “universal brotherhood” that denies and rejects His divine Fatherhood, and the abandonment of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is King and High Priest, from whom earthly societies – State and Church – have snatched away His crown and scepter, in the illusion that there can be peace, harmony, and prosperity where Satan reigns.

'If you wish to act as Catholics and as Americans worthy of the name, you must be clearly aware of your responsibility before God: to fight your daily battle to gain Heaven. A battle in which the Lord assures you of the spiritual weapons you need to win: living your life in the state of Grace, persevering in fervent prayer, receiving the Sacraments frequently, assisting at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and being fruitful in good works.'

Elon Musk has expressed his shock at the news that the 2023 abortion statistics revealed that almost one in three of all pregnancies in the UK ended in abortion during that year.

Yesterday, after an 18-month delay, the Department of Health and Social Care released the abortion statistics for England and Wales for 2023, revealing that 278,740 abortions took place during the year. When these are combined with the number of abortions in Northern Ireland and Scotland, the total number of abortions in the UK in 2023 can be estimated as 299,614.*

ProLife commentators focused on the total number of pregnancies ending in abortion relative to the total number of pregnancies ending in a live birth.

Given there were a total of 656,969 live births in the UK in 2023, this means that approximately 31.32% of all pregnancies, almost one in three, ended in abortion in 2023 (excluding instances of miscarriage and stillbirth).

In apparent disbelief about this stark figure and the low fertility rate in the UK, Elon Musk said “Wow”. The world's richest man is well-known for his outspoken concern about falling birth rates.