Press Releases

LIFE, the national charity caring for vulnerable women and children, has said today of the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) Final Adjudication on the Marie Stopes TV advert:-

National pro-life charity LIFE, who run the LIFE FertilityCare Programme, is warning couples not to turn to IVF, as evidence of the dangers to women’s and children’s health continues to grow.

A LIFE spokesperson said: ‘This latest research finding, that IVF mothers face a death risk three times higher than mothers who conceive naturally, comes after a raft of evidence citing other dangers of conceiving artificially through IVF.

The national charity LIFE has responded thus to two new reports on Fetal Awareness and Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality published by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG):

‘The claim by the RCOG that it is neither necessary nor desirable to use drugs to protect the unborn child against pain when carrying out an abortion is yet further evidence of how far and how shamefully the College has abandoned former high principles.

“We are not in the least surprised that the RCOG should have decided that there is no case for administering pain killing drugs to unborn children before aborting them. The College has long since abandoned the high standards of the past which required a doctor to regard the unborn child and his/her mother as equal patients. The child has been reduced to just a thing – and a thing which, in the face of enormous evidence to the contrary “cannot experience pain in any sense” before 24 weeks gestation.

This is an astonishing assertion.

The RCOG’s new guidance on fetal pain has been widely reported as providing strong scientific support for the 24-week abortion time limit.  However, the conclusions of thisreview are very far from definitive.  For instance, it notes that unborn children in the womb do respond to stimuli from around 18 weeks’ gestation.  In addition, many of its conclusions are based on what is “possible”, “plausible” and “likely” rather than what is known for

The national pro-life caring and educational charity LIFE has expressed its shock at the recent news that numerous girls under the age of eighteen have had multiple abortions.

LIFE, the UK’s leading pro-life education charity, said the effect of NICE’s recommendation to primary schools that children as young as five should be taught all about sex, would be to corrupt children and rob them of their childhood innocence.

A LIFE spokesperson said: ‘The danger here is that children will be exposed to information that they are unable to cope with. Children as young as five do not need or want to know about sex and there is no evidence that NICE’s recommendations will have any effect on delaying the onset of sexual activity later on.

A Midlands couple are celebrating the birth of their daughter, Marie-Thérèse, thanks to the innovative work of the LIFE FertilityCare Programme (LFC). Marie-Thérèse is the 100th baby to be born to the programme.

Mum Janine explains: ‘After having our son Samuel in 2006, I suffered two miscarriages as we tried to have another child. I’d heard about the LIFE FertilityCare Programme some years before and it really appealed to my husband Michael and me.

LIFE, the UK’s leading pro-life care and education charity, today said news that many women were aborting babies conceived by IVF is ‘further evidence of the trivialisation of human life caused by IVF.’

A LIFE spokesperson says: ‘If you create a society where children are created and treated as a commodity, it is little wonder that this is going on. The needs of the child should come first and all too often the adults who are supposed to care for them put their needs first.