Life is extremely disappointed at guidelines published today by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) which will result in more women being rushed through abortions in the interest of saving money. Throughout the draft guidelines, NICE insisted on economising in order for resources to be channelled back into new referrals, feeding an… Read more »

Life Northern Ireland is proud to announce the launch of a new perinatal service to support families with babies diagnosed with life limiting conditions. The perinatal service is designed to complement NHS services, by offering specialised counselling and support to parents whose children have been diagnosed with conditions in the womb such as Anencephaly, Trisomy… Read more »

Life condemns the actions of the parliamentarians who have committed one of the most disgraceful assaults on democracy against the people of Northern Ireland through amendments to the Northern Ireland Executive Formation Bill. Amendments to the Northern Ireland Bill were passed today, supported by majorities in the House of Lords and House of Commons in… Read more »

Stella Creasy MP was today successful with her amendment tacked on to the Northern Ireland Bill which instructs the Government to provide for a repeal of sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Persons Act (OAPA), effectively legalising abortion in Northern Ireland and removing it from the law in England and Wales. Life’s… Read more »

Three judges have overturned the ruling that a woman who is in her early 20s, is 22 weeks pregnant and is said to have ‘serious to moderate learning difficulties’, would have been forced to have an abortion; despite the fact despite the fact that neither she, her mother nor her social worker wanted the abortion to… Read more »