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Reduce the time limit for abortion from 24 to 20 weeks!

DATE : March 3, 2018 AUTHOR :

Reduce the time limit for abortion from 24 to 20 weeks!

In 1990 the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act lowered the legal time limit for abortion from 28 to 24 weeks, which was at the time the accepted point of viability – the time when the child was recognised as capable of independent existence outside the womb. Medical advances since that time mean that a baby born at 22 weeks has around a 10% chance of survival, 3.4% surviving without medical impairment.

Since 1967 over 9 million abortions have been performed in this country. Despite what was claimed when abortion was legalised in 1967, less than 2% of these have been for medical reasons, with a staggering 98% performed for what are euphemistically termed ‘social reasons’, meaning that, for whatever cause, the baby was simply unwanted.

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Petition to the BMA: Say NO to Assisted Suicide

DATE : February 19, 2018 AUTHOR :

The BMJ recently issued a call to government for doctor assisted dying to be legalised to reflect the view of what they call ‘the great majority of the public’ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/top-docs-call-assisted-dying-11989162 Specifically, they claimed that 80% of the public support a change in the law, and that it works ‘well’ in other parts of the world […]

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Say NO to Assisted Suicide

DATE : February 15, 2018 AUTHOR :

VfJUK received an email yesterday directing our attention to a poll on Assisted Dying currently being run by the BMJ (British Medical Journal).  It may be remembered that the BMJ has recently issued a call to government for assisted dying to be legalised to reflect the view of what they call ‘the great majority of […]

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Call to government to prohibit all medical treatment for gender reassignment below age of 18

DATE : January 17, 2018 AUTHOR :

With increasing reports of people seeking reversal of gender reassignment surgery (see recent report in The Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gender-reversal-surgery-demand-rise-assignment-men-women-trans-a7980416.html ; see also The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/sep/25/bath-spa-university-transgender-gender-reassignment-reversal-research), we call for medical intervention to change gender, whether surgical or by the administration of sex changing hormones, to be banned below the age of 18. Increasingly in schools, children as young […]

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Protecting the rights of free speech for Christian MPs

DATE : December 15, 2017 AUTHOR :

Protecting the rights of free speech for Christian MPs Protect the right to free speech of Christian MPs.  Do not allow Secular and LGBT activists to suppress Christian belief. December 2017:  VfJUK delivers the petition with over 30,000 signatures to Downing Street. Although we have had formal acknowledgment of delivery, we are still awaiting a […]

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