Parents and carers have a “moral duty” to ensure under-18s abort their babies, argued two academics on the extreme side of the pro-death lobby.

Professor Kimberley Brownlee and PhD student Alyssa Izatt, both at The University of British Columbia, claimed that “in relation to children, we should be ‘pro-abortion’” and promoted forced abortions for those who express a wish to carry their babies to full-term.

In a paper published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Ethics, the academics branded attempts to discourage under-18s from having an abortion as “antigirlism”.

Brownlee and Izatt said that adults should view a child’s “impregnation as a malady and take steps to terminate it”. Similarly, doctors should revise their approach “so that adequate medical care includes abortion care”.

They wrote: “A critic might balk at our contention that doctors should provide abortion care to a girl who has contrary preferences or an aversion to the procedure.

“Such a patient might interpret her pregnancy as a baby and feel love for it and a desire to be a mother. She might believe that by having an abortion she is killing her baby.”

In such instances, they proposed, carrying out an abortion might justifiably “require sedation or physical restraint”.

Canadian politicians have proposed new legislation to reduce access to euthanasia.

Premier of Alberta Danielle Smith stated that Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) must be limited to only those deemed to be terminally ill.  The Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act (Bill 18) also seeks to bar doctors from unilaterally raising MAID with patients, strengthen conscience protections, and ban MAID advertising in healthcare facilities.

Introduced in 2016, MAID was expanded in 2021 to include people with serious or incurable conditions but who do not have a terminal diagnosis. Euthanasia now accounts for five per cent of all deaths in Canada.

Premier Smith said, “MAID should not become a permanent response to a moment of crisis or despair that can change with care and time.”

She explained that the new measures under Bill 18 “strengthens safeguards and restores clear limits on eligibility to protect vulnerable Albertans facing mental illness or living with disabilities”.

The Premier added: “Those struggling with severe mental health challenges need treatment, compassion and support, not a path to end their life at what may be their lowest moment.”

The Mississippi Legislature gave final approval to legislation to criminalise the mailing of abortion pills as a felony drug trafficking offense.

House Bill 1613, originally intended to penalize individuals possessing 200 or more grams of illegal drugs, was amended to also criminalize those who “create, sell, barter, transfer, manufacture, distribute, dispense, prescribe or possess with intent to create, sell, barter, transfer, manufacture, distribute, dispense or prescribe” any “medicine, drug or any other substance prescribed or dispensed with the intent of terminating the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman to cause the death of the unborn child” without an in-person doctor visit.

The final version passed the state House 76-38 and the Senate 37-15 on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported, and now awaits a signature from Republican Gov. Tate Reeves to become law. Reeves is pro-life and expected to sign. Abortions are illegal in Mississippi except for cases of rape or medical threats to a mother’s life (in which abortion is not medically necessary anyway).

“The intent is to keep doctors from out of state from circumventing our current law,” said Republican state Rep. Celeste Hurst, who introduced the amendment to cover abortion drugs like mifepristone and misoprostol.

“The state of Mississippi has been pretty clear of where they are about their pro-life position,” Republican state Sen. Daniel Sparks added. “If people are circumventing that through the mail or through other mechanisms, then I think we’re trying to be consistent with what the law is.”

Mailing abortion-inducing drugs across state lines has become the abortion lobby’s most important tool for perpetuating abortion-on-demand and undermining pro-life laws, thanks to the difficulty of tracking pills shipped in nondescript packaging and pills usually taken in complete privacy.

The latest data from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute found 1,125,930 clinical abortions in 2025, a slight increase from 2024, that Guttmacher attributed in large part to abortion pills.

Spain’s euthanasia laws have been labelled ‘morally depraved’ after a 25-year-old woman was killed following injuries caused by a failed suicide attempt.

Noelia Castillo, who was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder at 13, was given the lethal drugs at Sant Camil hospital on 26 March. She was a victim of a gang-rape in 2022, and shortly after became wheelchair-bound with chronic pain due to a failed suicide attempt.

Deaths by euthanasia and assisted suicide in Spain have increased by almost 50 per cent since they were legalised in 2022. Activists are now calling for the eligibility criteria to be widened to include people struggling with mental ill health.

Her father tried to block her euthanasia in an 18-month-long legal battle, arguing that she lacked capacity due to her ill mental health, and pointing to “the obligation of the state to protect the lives of people, especially the most vulnerable, as is the case with a young person with mental health problems”.

But Spain’s Supreme Court upheld her ‘right to die’, and the European Court of Human Rights also rejected the father’s request for intervention.

Proposed UK abortion liberalisation has been slammed by a large body of lawmakers. MPs and Peers have urged the Government to halt legislation allowing a woman to kill her unborn baby at any stage of pregnancy without sanction.

In a letter addressed to Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, 79 parliamentarians said it would be “reckless” for such a significant change in law to take place without an impact assessment and the publication of appropriate guidance for healthcare professionals.

In March, the House of Lords voted through a controversial clause in the Crime and Policing Bill which effectively decriminalises a mother in England and Wales for aborting her unborn child up to birth.

The letter highlighted several scenarios which needed to be addressed, including what a doctor should do if a woman sought medical assistance immediately after inducing a late term pregnancy, when it is illegal for healthcare professionals to assist.

It also asked what paramedics ought to do “if they arrive at the scene of a late-term, self-induced abortion and the baby demonstrates signs of life? Can you assure us that the baby’s right to life would be protected?”

The signatories noted that such scenarios are not “fanciful” as “disturbing cases” of late term abortions had already occurred and they warned of a “real danger that such instances will increase with tragic consequences for women and viable unborn babies”.

The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute’s latest data reports a very slight increase in overall U.S. abortions in 2025 compared to 2024, crediting telehealth practices for keeping abortions up without Roe v. Wade inhibiting pro-life laws.

Guttmacher’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study reported 1,125,930 abortions committed by clinicians in the U.S. in 2025, compared to 1,123,600 the year before (which in turn was an increase from 1,059,610 in 2023). Its report on the data describes abortion as “stable” and “largely unchanged” from 2024 to 2025, and the highest number since 2009 (albeit “well below the historical peak of slightly over 1.6 million abortions in 1990”.

The data further reinforces the baneful role of abortion pills as the abortion lobby’s most important tool for perpetuating abortion-on-demand and undermining pro-life laws, especially distributing them by mail across state lines, which is extremely difficult for pro-life states to prevent.

Pastor Clive Johnston, who is being prosecuted for preaching the Gospel in an abortion censorship zone in Northern Ireland, will be in court tomorrow for his final scheduled hearing.

The retired pastor, 77, held an open-air Sunday service on the fringes of a ‘Safe Access Zone’ opposite the Causeway Hospital, Coleraine, on 7 July 2024. He preached on John 3:16, but was charged for seeking to “influence” people accessing the hospital’s abortion services and for not immediately leaving the area when asked to do so by police.

At this hearing, Pastor Clive could be acquitted or convicted, the judge could defer his decision, or the judge could also refer the case to a higher court – a signal there are issues around the human rights compatibility of using the legislation against Mr Johnston in this way.

Mr Johnston’s case has been brought under 2023 NI legislation which created eight 100–150m buffer zones around hospitals and other centres which provide abortions, in order to prevent protests.

It is a criminal offence to act within these areas with the intent of (or being reckless about) causing people to be “impeded, recorded, influenced or to be caused harassment, alarm or distress” in connection with their attendance at protected premises.

If convicted, the grandfather of seven – who has never been in trouble with the police – faces a criminal record and potential fines totalling thousands of pounds.

At the last hearing in December, the judge heard arguments and agreed there is little dispute regarding the facts of the case, including that the service was not a protest about abortion, did not mention abortion, nor did it include any placards or banners.

Ahead of Tuesday’s hearing, Mr Johnston, the former President of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, said: “I am grateful for the kind messages of support I have received from members of the public both here and abroad, and for the prayers being offered up to God about this case by many Christians.

“My legal representatives have strongly contested the allegations against me and I pray the wider public will understand the implications of this case.”

A Christian photographer has won a massive legal victory against the LGBTQ tyranny, She has been awarded $800,000 in legal fees, after successfully challenging a law that would have forced her to promote same-sex weddings.

Chelsey Nelson, a wedding photographer and blogger based in Louisville, Kentucky, started legal action against the Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government in 2019 for being required to promote same-sex weddings if she photographs, edits and blogs on weddings between one man and one woman.

Three years later, a US district court ruled that the Government’s “Fairness Ordinance” cannot compel Nelson to promote same-sex weddings, express messages which are “inconsistent” with her beliefs, or prevent her from publicly explaining her stance. The $800,000 settlement has now resolved the legal costs.

Bryan Neihart, Senior Counsel at religious liberty group Alliance Defending Freedom, which supported the case, said: “The government cannot force Americans to say things they don’t believe.

“For almost six years, Louisville officials tried to do just that by threatening to force Chelsey to promote views about marriage that violated her religious beliefs. Louisville’s threats contradicted bedrock First Amendment principles which leave decisions about what to say with the people, not the government.

“This settlement should teach Louisville that violating the U.S. Constitution can be expensive.”

Our team of ProLife campaigners and outreach workers have had all sorts of things thrown at us by hate-filled supporters of abortion, but never a petrol bomb. But that's exactly what was hurled at the Portuguese capital’s first annual March for Life (Marcha pela Vida) last weekend.

During the closing ceremony of the March 21 Portugal March for Life in front of the Portuguese parliament, where many families with young children and babies were gathered, an unidentified 39-year-old man threw a Molotov cocktail onto the stage. 

The man was quickly stopped by march participants before the police arrived. While several children and their parents were drenched with petrol, no one was hurt.

The otherwise peaceful first annual March for Life Lisbon had drawn a whopping 4,000 pro-lifers who witnessed to the unborn.