The French National Assembly has just voted this week the draft law concerning the offence of obstructing abortion. Next round with the examination of the draft law by the Senate in February. Will the parliament add to the law a 30 000-euro fine or two years of imprisonment for anyone considered to have exerted “moral or…
July 26, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – All charges have been dismissed against Center for Medical Progress investigators David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, multiple sources have confirmed to LifeSiteNews. Prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney’s office dropped the charges before the pair could pursue their legal motion to quash the charges at a hearing at 9…
The French Parliament approved a bill of law instituting a new criminal offense: obstruction to abortion, a frontal attack on freedom of expression in the name of a free choice for women. A new bill voted this week in France states that providing “false” information on abortion would be punishable by up to two years…
A beautiful “Dear Future Mom” video has been banned by the French Broadcasting Council and the French State Council because it includes smiling children with Down syndrome. The award-winning video, produced in 2014, was made to encourage and alleviate the fears of pregnant mothers who have been given a Down syndrome diagnosis. It shows children…
On Friday 4th. November, by a vote of 267 to 140, the Polish lower House passed the “Pro Life” bill offering help for women with difficult pregnancies. The program is supposed to kick in next year. The bill was passed in an unusually speedy parliamentary procedure. It provides a one-time financial aid payment of PLN…
Between 2010 and 2015, the number of abortions in Hungary has fallen by 23 per cent; in nominal terms, over 9000 less pregnancies were terminated, and the decrease continued further in the first quarter of the running year by 4 per cent, according to the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Human Capacities. In…
by Mr. Nils Muižnieks (1) The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Nils Muižnieks, has published a Human Rights Comment on the need to protect women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, highlighting that access to sexual and reproductive rights is a precondition for the realization of other human rights, including in the…
Following the rejection of the right-to-life bill by the Polish Parliament, the “Save Women” (pro-abortion) committee announced an upcoming European Citizens’ Initiative to ensure a guaranteed access to legal abortion, sexual education, and contraception at the EU level. Barbara Nowacka, leader of the “Save Women” committee explains: “In a few months, I am going to ask for your help to…
Following the rejection by the Polish Parliament of the pro-life bill, the chairman of the conservatives (the governing party PiS) Jaroslaw Kaczynski announced on October 12th that the party will work to reduce the number of abortions carried out for reason of illness or disability. “Nowadays there are around 1.000 legal abortions in Poland: most…
The ECLJ publishes a Report on the Polish Citizens’ legislative initiative towards a comprehensive protection of human life Strasbourg – Octobre 4th 2016. The citizens’ legislative initiative for the total abolition of abortion, delivered to the Polish Parliament on 5th July 2016, aims to ensure for all children, before as well as after birth, equal rights…