February 2022

I just wanted to share some breaking news with you.

The Government has just announced that they will be ending ‘DIY’ at-home abortion services from 30 August 2022.

This is an amazing outcome.

As you know, we have been campaigning over the last two years to have these dangerous ‘DIY’ at-home abortion services ended. This has been met with fierce opposition from abortion providers who have put strong pressure on the Government to allow these abortion services to be made permanent.

Thank you to the tens of thousands of people who have written to their MPs, mobilised friends behind the campaign and completed a series of other actions that have helped in no small way to us getting to today's outcome.

I also wanted to thank the many doctors, lawyers, academics, MPs, Peers and organisations who have come together over this period to speak out about the litany of safety and safeguarding issues that have been linked to these ‘DIY’ abortion schemes.

Thank you finally to our supporters who have contributed financially to our work to make it possible for us to fight this battle and work together with a large group of individuals and organisations to help achieve this great result today. 

Many thanks,

Catherine Robinson
Right To Life UK

Assisted Suicide Bill fails to go to vote:  

Catherine Robinson, spokesperson for Right To Life UK said: “It is a great outcome that this Bill was not taken to a vote today. The Bill is unlikely to be given time in Parliament to be debated in the House of Commons and become law, given that it is not supported by the Government”.
“It is wonderful to see that so many Peers came out today to oppose introducing a dangerous assisted suicide law”. 
“We have increasing evidence that people’s wishes to die are transient. The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, for example, surveyed 8,174 people over the age of 50 and found that 3.5% expressed a wish
to die at Wave 1 of the study. However, 72% of these participants no longer reported a wish to die when reassessed two years later. We should seek to care for those experiencing suicidal thoughts, rather than state-sanction their deaths”.
“It is no coincidence that many prominent people with disabilities, plenty of disability rights groups, and many respected healthcare professionals continue to rally against introducing assisted suicide, for it strikes against the very heart of the dignity and care we ought to afford to each human being”.
The Bishops Parliamentary Office has issued a briefing (Assisted Suicide – Catholic Parliamentary Office (rcpolitics.org) which has been send to all Catholic MSPs.  We will be working in tandem with Care Not Killing and encourage you also to sign up to their messages. (Promoting palliative care, Opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide - Care Not Killing - Care NOT Killing - Promoting care, Opposing euthanasia - Care Not Killing)   Find out more at  Assisted Suicide – Catholic Parliamentary Office (rcpolitics.org)

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