Life welcomes and urges Government support for a bill tabled yesterday by Maria Miller, MP seeking to protect women who are pregnant or on maternity leave from being discriminated against by employers. Ms Miller’s 10-minute-rule bill, the Pregnancy and Maternity (Redundancy Protection) Bill seeks to prohibit employers from making women redundant from the time they are pregnant… Read more »

You will have seen from our Impact Reports that our free pregnancy tests are in great demand. I was asked a couple of times last week – “ If Life stopped posting out pregnancy tests wouldn’t that save the Charity money” – of course the answer is yes it would save money… but at what cost? You may not be aware that each pregnancy… Read more »

Happy Easter! I know that the world feels like a scary place at the moment and that every time we turn on the news, it’s depressing. Therefore, I have decided to write a good-news blog and to focus on some positives from the last few weeks. Demand for our services Firstly, the demand for our… Read more »

I worked in the NHS for 46 years (40 of them as a midwife) and am retired now. Being a midwife was more than a job to me, it was a vocation. I cared a great deal about the women in my care and enjoyed supporting them through some of the most memorable occasions of… Read more »