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 »

On Monday, amendments which would have legalised abortion on demand failed to pass through the House of Commons. In this blog we reflect on the tactics of the abortion lobby. Bill Hijacking 101 Understand the composition of the House of Commons by testing your support with a private members bill which you know wouldn’t pass… Read more »

Life welcomes the rejection by parliament today of amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill to allow for the legalisation of abortion on demand. The Speaker of the House of Commons rejected an amendment by Diana Johnson to remove sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Persons Act, as being outside the scope of… Read more »

An abused 13-year-old girl rings our Helpline. A mum in one of houses has a violent partner. A volunteer with learning disabilities is joining the team. How would you keep them safe? Life’s a national charity. So far in 2020, we’ve helped more than 30,000 people. A lot of the people we help are in… Read more »