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Report March for Life the Hague-Maaike Rosendal
On average I travel to the Netherlands twice a year for presentations in high schools, colleges, and churches. Pro-life apologetics are in high demand. Young people overwhelmingly change their mind after learning the truth about abortion and are eager to engage with those around them after hearing the human rights argument. I always go home…
Christmas letter from Jaime Mayor Oreja President of the European Federation One Of Us
Dear family and friends of the Federation One of Us: I want to begin these lines by expressing, as President of the European Federation One of Us, our sincere thanks for your valuable work. You are a crucial part of our Federation, because without your collaboration, the work of defending life in Europe would not…
70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Introduction The Universal Declaration of Human Rights intervened after three appalling decades marked by two world wars which caused tens of thousands of deaths and both moral and material devastation. It was also at the beginning of a “cold” war, so named as it was a war which was never officially declared, but one which…
Portugal: The Constitutional Court has identified unconstitutional norms in the law on surrogacy
Jusjornal, number 27, Administrative Section/ Day Decision, May 2018, Wolters Kluwer Editors JusNet 81/2018 1.The Constitutional Court has examined and decided in its Judgement nº225/2018 a request to appreciate the successive abstract constitutionality formulated by a Group of Deputies from the Republic’s Assembly referring to: consecration in the Law on Surrogacy ( PMA Law )…
Chinese claim to have created world’s first genetically modified baby
A Chinese researcher claims he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies – twin girls whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics. A US scientist said he took part in the…
VERONA LABELLED AS A “PRO-LIFE CITY”
In Italy, two measures have just been adopted by the Municipal Council of Verona to make it “a pro-life city”. The first measure is to release financing for catholic anti-abortion associations. In a country where newborn infants are being increasingly abandoned, the second measure introduces, at regional level, a network of “secret cradles” in a hospital setting. This…
MEDICALLY ASSISTED REPRODUCTION FOR ALL WOMEN AUTHORISED IN MALTA
In Malta, new embryo legislation came into force on 1 October. It had been voted in by Parliament and signed by the Maltese President in June 2018 (see Malta: Changes to the Embryo Protection Act adopted by Parliament and Maltese President signs the Embryo Protection Act ). This new law extends IVF access, legalises the freezing of embryos and introduces gamete…
BELGIAN MPS REMOVE ABORTION FROM THE PENAL CODE
In Belgium, following months of debate both in Parliament and civil society, a decision was taken yesterday to revise the 1990 Lallemand-Michielsens abortion law by 84 votes to 39 with five abstentions. The bill removes abortion from the penal code but penal sanctions still apply to women and doctors if abortion is performed outside the…
Were the Prophecies of Humanae Vitae Fulfilled?
On July 25, 1968, Paul VI made a historic decision, and signed the encyclical ‘Humanae Vitae’ … “With this he signed his own passion,” said his Secretary of State, Cardinal Casaroli. The new documentary by Goya Productions, “The Prophecies of the Humanae Vitae”, takes stock of one of the most controversial documents of the Catholic Church 50 years…