Abortion Questions Asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool To ask Her Majesty's Government what information they have regarding the basis on which the decision was taken to allow for-profit organisations to advertise abortion services on television; what representations they...
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Abortion To Be Advertised On Television and Radio – abortion is never safe for the developing child.
Whether or not it is licit to take the life of an unborn child is not an uncontroversial or uncontested question. All the more extraordinary, therefore, that permission has been given for abortion to be advertised on British television and radio as just another...
Abortion costs £30 million higher than misleadingly reported to Parliament
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/women_shealth/8904455/Abortion-costs-30m-higher-than-previously-thought.html Letter from Earl Howe: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Telegraph article By...
Abortion and the Nadine Dorries Amendment
http://www.edinburghprolifesociety.com/. The recent debate about Nadine Dorries’ attempt to change the regulatory framework governing pre-abortion counselling has once again opened the debate about the 1967 Abortion Act. Whatever the rights and wrongs about the...
48,000 Repeat Abortions in 2010 – some as many as 8 abortions – and at a staggering cost to the public purse
Latest statistics show that 48,000 people have had more than one abortion in the last year - some as many as eight. 6.2 million abortions have taken place since 1968 and in the past eight years fewer than 10 have been in emergency cases where a life was at risk. The...
Gendercide: "It seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime." -Mahatma Gandhi
"It seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime." -Mahatma Gandhi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Economist recently...
Amnesty and Abortion
Universe Column, September 23rd 2007 Some months ago I wrote to Amnesty International protesting at the proposal to make support for abortion one of their worldwide objectives. I said that Amnesty's founder, Peter Benenson, a Catholic, would have regarded this as a...
Where 40 years of abortion has led
Universe Column, October 21st 2007 Next Saturday, October 27th, will be the fortieth anniversary of the passing of the Abortion Act. To commemorate the nearly 7 million unborn babies aborted in the intervening forty years, on Friday the 26th at 10.00 am Phyllis...
Abortions given to under-12s
78 Under 12-year-olds Aborted As Children's Health Is Compromised By Government Policies Universe Column By David Alton The regional co-ordinator for sexual health in Manchester, recently reported that medical services are close to breaking point due to increased...
The Abortion Pill
By David Alton Universe Column for July 27th 2003 Not content with almost 600 abortions every working day, the pro-abortion lobby are now calling for women to be allowed to complete so-called ‘medical abortions’ at home. Don’t be fooled that this arises out of concern...
Politicians and the abortion issue
Universe Column By David Alton Last week I attended a press conference convened by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) to announce the results of research conducted last October by MORI on contemporary attitudes towards abortion in the UK. Sharing a platform...
Roe v. Abortion
By David Alton A few months ago I addressed a hearing in the US Senate. After it was over, we talked informally about the contrast between the urgency and passion surrounding the American debate about abortion - compared with the indifference in the UK. I told my...
Abortion and Breast Cancer
29th October 2003 For the full text of the debate, click here. Lord Alton of Liverpool rose to ask Her Majesty's Government what evidence links breast cancer with abortion; and what measures they are taking to alert women to any risks involved. The noble Lord said: My...
Abortion and Cleft Lip
Abortion Lord Alton of Liverpool rose to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will review the provisions in statute that permit conditions such as cleft palate and cleft lip to be regarded as "serious handicaps" for the purposes of terminating the lives of the...
The Abortion Pill
By David Alton Universe Column for July 27th 2003 Not content with almost 600 abortions every working day, the pro-abortion lobby are now calling for women to be allowed to complete so-called ‘medical abortions’ at home. Don’t be fooled that this arises out of concern...
Politicians and the abortion issue
Universe Column By David Alton Last week I attended a press conference convened by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) to announce the results of research conducted last October by MORI on contemporary attitudes towards abortion in the UK. Sharing a platform...
How the West funds Chinese enforced abortions
by David Alton Universe Column for November 20th 2005 The latest documented cases detailing the abuse of China’s one child policy make for harrowing reading. That we in Britain continue to aid and abet this policy must rank as one of our greatest errors. British...
Making abortion an election issue
Universe Column for April 10th 2005 by David Alton Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor has asked us to “think carefully” about the position of the political parties on “the right to life” before casting our votes. He is right to do so. In summary, 6 million legal...
Abortion: Getting To The Heart of The Matter
A readable and up-to-the-minute booklet that informs readers of the research on abortion - abortion and disability; abortion and its psychological and physical affect on women's health, particularly its link with breast cancer. (with Martin Foley) 2005Click here for...
House of Lords: Foetal Sentience.
It is extraordinary that anyone could oppose the creation of a scientific committee to investigate the pain which can be experienced by an unborn child. Lord Alton House of Lords22nd March 2024 https://youtu.be/i-lEt9ryF_c My Lords, in declaring non-financial...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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Replies to Parliamentary Questions on the number of people who are dying of hunger or who are food insecure in Sudan; how quickly the UK decision to increase humanitarian aid for war victims in Sudan will be made available; what it will be used for; and how it will be deployed; and the impact of the war in Sudan on South Sudan, including (1) the numbers of displaced people and refugees, and (2) the impact on its economy caused by the loss of receipts from the export of oil
Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3877): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of people...
Meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong’s Article 23 on human rights; to examine its impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd; to express solidarity with Jimmy Lai and 1841 other imprisoned pro democracy advocates; and to consider how Hong Kong’s Security Laws impact on civil society, the diaspora and contribute to transnational repression. Contributions from Benedict Rogers, Steve Vines, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, and Carmen Lau. The banning of a Simpsons episode about the Tiananmen Square massacre “Nothing Happened Here” cited as an example of the suppression of truth.
Lord Alton of Liverpool (David Alton) as a Patron of Hong Kong Watch today chaired a meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong's Article 23 on human rights. It examined the impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May...
British universities and Chinese money
Today I pressed Ministers to reduce the reliance of British universities on Chinese money. This is compromising national security and also compromising academic freedom – as the case of Professor Michelle Shipworth, which I raised, has demonstrated. 30th April...