Two stories that challenge our attitudes to Down’s Syndrome Down's syndrome: 'In all honesty we were offered 15 terminations' - “ I was offered an abortion at 38 weeks gestation “ BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-51658631 And what a...
Government promoting new test to make the taking of life even easier.Care and kill, defend and destroy, equality and discrimination, can never be used as synonyms. Search and destroy should be replaced by love and embrace. The Don’t Screen Us Out campaign calls on the government to halt the implementation of cfDNA screening and to introduce reforms which would support those with Down’s syndrome and their families. And listen to Tommy Jessop reminding us that this is about “to be or not to be” – to have the chance to live or not to live.
Government promoting new test to make the taking of life even easier. Care and kill, defend and destroy, equality and discrimination, can never be used as synonyms. Search and destroy should be replaced by love and embrace. The Don’t Screen Us Out campaign calls on...
The Killing Of People With Down’s Syndrome: Richard Dawkins says it’s immoral to let a Down’s Syndrome baby be born. Since when have eugenics been moral or ethical? What would happen if you were diagnosed with Dawkins’ Syndrome?
Well written piece on Down's Syndrome: http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/5881256?utm_hp_ref=uk See Photographer with Down's syndrome who 'sees the world differently' 9 September 2014 Last updated at 00:01 BST Photographer Oliver Hellowell has Down's syndrome, which his...
Not In Our Name Campaign. Man imprisoned for killing his unborn child – but for 8 million others its just a question of choice.The Abortion of Baby Girls – an Upside Down World Worthy of Alice In Wonderland – and a world in which greater worth is attached to a goldfish than to an unborn child
NOT IN OUR NAME - Join the campaign against the Royal College of Midwives support of abortion-on-demand up-to-birth campaign. UK abortion provider BPAS have launched a campaign to legalise abortion-on-demand, up-to-birth, for any reason. (For more...
Drama and Music To Make Us Think: Disability Hate Crime, Religious Persecution, Bullying, Relationships, the Holocaust, North Korea, Scapegoating of Minorities…
A theatre company, consisting primarily, but not exclusively, of actors with learning disabilities, recently came to Westminster to perform their play “Living without Fear” – and in one short hour achieved more in raising awareness about...
Why Britain Needs The Sharp Compassion of the Healer’s Art Maranatha Lecture October 3rd 2012. Manchester.
https://www.davidalton.net/media/ Click on this link for the power pont presentation which accompanies this lecture and which is in the Media section of the web site. Click on the linkbelow for a link to the video recording of the lecture:...
New Calls To End Eugenic Abortions In The Week A Judge Handed Down A Sentence of 8 Years For The Death of An Unborn Child
In the same week that a Judge handed down a sentence of eight years to a woman who killed her unborn baby at 39 weeks gestation, calls have been made to end eugenic abortions in Britain (see below). There is a link between these two stories because if the...
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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At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? Essay for GIS Reports April 19th 2024.
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/crossroads-isolationism-leadership At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? LORD DAVID ALTON OF LIVERPOOL READING TIME: 16 MIN History teaches us that isolationism leads to disaster. Will the...
Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...