The All-Ireland Rally for Life Committee has just released a new 60 second video promoting the upcoming Rally for Life in Belfast. Check it out here:

Feminist author and campaigner, Germaine Greer, has described IVF as a "lottery" and a "nightmare". She added that it was "sold to people as a success story but its actually utter misery and trepidation".

Taiwan has one of the world's lowest birth rates and now the Taiwanese government has just released legislation that they will now be paying couples to have babies beginning January 2011. Low birthrates are becoming more and more evident throughout the world, so read what is going on in Taiwan, ...

YD activist and NUIG Life Society Auditor, Maria Mahoney, has called on the Irish people to "have the courage to resist attacks on human life." Writing in the Irish Independent, the young pro-life leader said that she agreed that "a woman's choice to destroy her unborn child is founded on panic or ...

Jean Bradley, 65, breaks her silence about the doctor who put her husband to death against his will. Even though she was estranged from her husband, Mrs. Bradley had spent the last weeks of his life caring for him. She told the Telegraph "I do not think my husband wanted to die without seeing his ...

The Council of Europe just released a document which declares their intent to regulate the way that all physicians handle the issue of abortion. The "problem of unregulated use of conscientious objection" by doctors who do not wish to commit abortions must be addressed by the European ...

For the past ten years, there has been a consistent and powerful push to have embryo research legalized in Ireland. Mary Harney - in her various ministerial roles - has voted to fund embryonic stem cell research in the EU and has appointed supporters of embryo research to key influential positions.

Youth Defence's pro-life newspaper adverts continue to produce a tremendous response from the public, but pro-abortion campaigners have reacted with fury to the success of the campaign, which spells out a simple fact: Abortion never saves a mother's life - it just kills a baby.

British government data have disclosed that 89 girls aged 17 or under who had an abortion last year had had at least two abortions previously. Pro-life advocates said that the figures showed that the abortion industry had been allowed to successfully peddle their grisly trade to young and ...

Since 1995, in response to Pope John Paul II's call to build a culture of life, every summer Crossroads has been walking from the West coast to the East coast of America promoting respect for the dignity of human life in all its stages through a prayerful and sacrificial witness along the highways ...

New reports indicate that real hope for 'miracle' treatments using adult stem cells is on the way for those suffering from diseases afflicting both the brain and the heart.

You will recall that some two weeks ago we strongly urged you to call to complain regarding the airing of Britain's first abortion ad on Channel 4. The ad was booked by Marie Stopes, one of the most notorious abortion providers in the world, and was widely condemned as a soft-sell for abortion.

Andrea Bocelli, the Italian pop, opera, and classical singer, has revealed that he too could have been one more abortion statistic. The blind international music sensation has been filmed telling the story of how doctors had suggested to his mother that she "abort the child" because the baby would ...

In the past week Youth Defence and the Life Institute has received a very strong response to our newspaper advertising campaign which spells out an incontrovertible fact: Abortion never saves a mother's life - it just kills a baby. Calls to the office, and queries on our website for further ...

Precious Life has commended the courageous decision by the Deputy of Northern Ireland’s national students' movement to resign over the organisation's abortion policy.

The day before Marie Stopes International abortion advertisements began airing in the UK, a woman died in one of their overseas abortion facilities in Nepal. Nepalese media reported this week that Durga Devi Khadka died on Sunday at the Marie Stopes Center in Damak, a municipality in the southeast.

Figures released under Britain's Freedom of Information Act show that an average of 80 children conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other artificial means of artificial procreation, are being aborted each year in England and Wales.

In a new departure, pregnant women in northern Italy are to be offered 4,500 euros not to have abortions. The idea comes from the governor of the Lombardy region, Roberto Formigoni, who says no woman should end a pregnancy because of economic difficulty.

A striking new pro-life advertisement appears in The Irish Times and other newspapers today, and spells out the truth that "Abortion never saves a mother's life, it just kills a baby".

Next week Youth Defence's striking new advertising campaign will be launched in newspapers nationwide. We hope it will be a decisive factor in nailing the lie that claims abortion is ever medically necessary.

This week the UK station, Channel 4 has aired the first British TV abortion ad, which directs viewers towards Marie Stopes International, one of the world's largest abortion providers, which kills more than 65,000 babies in Britain every year.

The Mullingar/Athlone Advertiser received a large number of complaints following the publication of an article by Maria Daly which described abortion as a “basic human right” and used the Murphy Report to somehow attempt to justify legalising the killing of babies.

The headline on the press release (IN ALL CAPS) was "OB-GYN RESIDENTS WHO INTEND TO PROVIDE ABORTION SERVICES OFTEN DO NOT ACTUALLY DO SO." If it had ended there, it would be nothing new for the Guttmacher Institute (GI), formerly the in-house think tank for Planned Parenthood, now just a "friend."

A Michigan abortionist is under renewed scrutiny over comments he made over two years ago, in which he said that doctors have a license to “lie” to their patients. The comments were made by Dr. Abraham Alberto Hodari to medical students at Wayne University. Hodari currently is facing a lawsuit ...

Information obtained by pro-life activists under the Freedom of Information Act shows that the UCC Research Ethics Board (UREB) has granted approval for the importation of human embryonic stem cell lines for a research project. In a letter to the unnamed researcher the then Chair of the UREB, Dr ...

The Daily Mail has revealed that research from Oxford University has estimated that girl babies are 'disappearing' from British Indian families at a rate approaching 100 a year. As with all official estimates, the reality could well be more. Author Kishwar Desai began to investigate the trend when ...

Legal abortion in the United States is a billion-dollar industry, and one new study says that the tentacles of legal abortion have already reached deep into the commerce and culture of American life, and that motives for profit may be keeping it alive.

In his high-profile visit to Fatima, Pope Benedict has called on Catholics to combat the "tragedy" of abortion, which he described as a most "insidious and dangerous" threat to the common good.

A homicide investigation is underway in Italy after a baby boy survived a botched abortion for nearly two days. Police are investigating the case for "homicide" because infanticide is illegal in Italy. The law means that doctors had an obligation to try to preserve the life of the child once he ...

After weeks of hard work, Precious Life say the Vote for Life campaign has produced results.

The Examiner and Herald newspapers have led attacks on Leo Varadkar after the Fine Gael TD, said in an interview that he opposed abortion. The Examiner led with an emotive headline: "Varadkar opposed to abortion for rape victims" while the Herald contacted a rape victim to prompt a response to the ...

Next week the Cannes Film Festival will feature a movie about what happened to a baby and his mother when the child was born alive after a failed abortion. The shocking story of in the film '22 Weeks' tells how an Orlando abortion facility refused to call emergency personnel and that staff at the ...

The Florida House and Senate have both passed legislation that would require women, with a few exceptions, to have an ultrasound before they have an abortion. The bill now goes to the governor, who can sign it, veto it or let it become law without his signature.

On the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the decriminalization of abortion in the Netherlands, the Dutch Pro-Life organization Cry for Life laid down 30,000 models of a 10-week-old unborn child. The display was erected in the Square next to the government buildings in centre of The Hague, the ...

The Life Institute has said that it is time for the media to "stop the spin and stick to the facts" when discussing stem cell research. Dr Sean O Domhnaill said that reporting on stem cells tended to be "factually incorrect, incomplete and agenda-driven" and that journalists and editors had a ...

This is the tragic story of a 22-week old child who was born alive after a "failed" abortion. The infant was left to die in the operating room for nearly 24 hours before the alarm was raised. A priest at the Rossano Calabro Hospital in Italy was made aware of the abandoned child, and after seeing ...

Precious Life's new campaign urging the public to vote only for candidates who will oppose abortion in the forthcoming Westminster election is gathering speed as the date of the vote draws near.

The Life Institute has said that the Examiner newspaper's coverage of abortion is "imbalanced and unprofessional" and usually amounts to a promotion of abortion. Spokeswoman Niamh Ui Bhriain said that the Examiner was failing utterly in its professional duty because it was pursuing an agenda which ...

A leading US pro-abortion campaigner is worried about the number of young people among pro-life activists, according to an article in Newsweek.

In an internal memorandum that has since been withdrawn by an embarrassed Foreign Office, officials of the Labour government suggested that the "ideal" papal visit would include Benedict presiding over the opening of an abortion facility and a homosexual marriage ceremony. The document also ...

It is likely that Eamon Gilmore leader of Labour Party would use any electoral gains to "develop a new constitution" which would undermine the unborn child's right to life amongst other things

Pro-life advocates in Ireland have questionins the close association between the Catholic Church's pregnancy counseling service CURA, and the Crisis Pregnancy Agency and their so-called "Positive Options" programme.

Youth Defence's schools program continues to amaze and excite school students - and its international reputation is growing! The Schools Information Project was first piloted back in 1998/99 and proved tremendously successful. Important improvements have been made since then, including a ...

The Life Institute has welcomed the results of a PLC/Millward Brown opinion poll which found that 70% of Irish people favoured retaining a prohibition on abortion, while allowing the existing practise of intervention to save a mother's life in accordance with a medical ethics.

The Conservative leader, David Cameron told the Catholic Herald last week that he was in favour of reducing the legal limit on abortions from the current 24 weeks, to 22 or 20 weeks. However, UK pro-life groups such as SPUC have said they are not taken-in by this attempt to gain their support, and ...

Lila Rose, the young student journalist whose investigative work on US abortion clinics has revealed the darkness of the abortion industry has launched a new video which shows an abortion clinic worker describing an unborn baby as "just fetal matter".

In February the organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) came to Ireland to condemn the Irish people for our protection of human life. We were scolded, with much finger-wagging, by the self-styled guardians of human rights because we did not provide abortion as a solution to crisis pregnancies. Now ...

Youth Defence has launched a new drive which aims to increase the number of pro-life volunteers nationwide. The new 'Life is Worth It' project gives everyone the opportunity to volunteer to protect mothers and babies from abortion.

A new report has revealed that 53.4 per cent of Italian families have no children. The report said that 21.9 per cent of households have only one child and just 19 per cent have two. While mass immigration contributes to Italy's population growth, the country's rock-bottom fertility rate of 1.31 ...

Life Site News reports that a former journalist for the LA Times and Orange County Register has penned a six-part investigative series that reveals the alarming business practices of embattled abortionist Andrew Rutland and several of his associates.

The Irish Times reports that "patients in the west of Ireland who suffer from the chronic inflammatory condition, Crohn's disease, will have the opportunity to take part in a cutting-edge clinical trial involving stem cell therapy later this year."

The parents of conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf from Cork have thanked everyone who prayed for the boys following the completion of a successful 14 hour operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London.

Life Site News reports that A large majority of French women say that there are too many abortions in their country, and that abortions "leaves psychological traces that are difficult for women to experience" according to a recent national poll.

Last Sunday, YD were delighted to address the first ever March for Life to take place in Brussels, where the parliament of the European Union sits. The march was organised by a group of young volunteers and it was a great success. A group of YD members travelled to Brussels at the invitation of ...

This year we had additional volunteers for several of our pro-life projects and resources thanks to our Lenten Campaign. One of the areas which benefited was our pro-life counselling, and we're glad to share with you one story of a mother and baby saved from abortion.

The North's leading pro-life group, Precious Life, held a Pro-Life Rosary Procession in Derry to mark the Feast Day of the Annunciation. The event was organised as part of the group's 40 Days for Life Campaign during Lent.

The Daily Telegraph reports that a new study suggests that having children can raise a woman's self-esteem. Being needed by young children can increase their feelings of self-worth, researchers believe. They found that having children can cut the chances that a woman will commit suicide.

In February a strange and objectionable organization called Exit International announced that it would hold a "DIY-Euthanasia workshop" in London. The debate regarding assisted suicide has been heating up for years in the UK and Dr Philip Nitschke, who heads up Exit International, is not the first ...

A controversial pro-euthanasia professor pulled out of an NUIG (Galway University) debate this week. British Professor of Medical Ethics Len Doyal had been invited to speak at the debate but then cancelled his visit citing "scheduling issues".

As Ireland joins the rest of Europe in facing an unprecedented demographic shift, the government has announced that the retirement age will be raised to 66 in four years and eventually to 68 as part of a comprehensive reform of the pension system.

A new study has found that providing the morning-after pill in advance does nothing to cut teenage pregnancy rates. It found that while the use of emergency contraception doubled in just six years, the latest data shows it has failed to slash rates of conception or sexually transmitted infections.

The Life Institute has called on the Minister for Justice, Dermot Ahern to enforce the law and intervene to stop a dangerous and illegal workshop which counsels suicide to the elderly, the sick and the vulnerable. Following a public outcry, which saw the cancellation of the event in four other ...

It's been a busy few weeks as pro-life activism heats up with YD members rights across Europe.

Precious Life have sent a big "Thank you" to everyone who responded to their Action Alert last Monday, calling for a NO vote in an online poll on the Irish website of Marie Stopes International - one of the largest abortion providers in the world. Their poll was asking "Should abortion be legal in ...

Life News reports that a new survey that has an impact on the abortion debate shows men are more likely to be happy with an unexpected pregnancy than women. The survey gives further credence to the idea that women - who have an abortion thinking their boyfriend or husband would not be supportive - ...

A series of rallies and demonstrations have taken place throughout Spain last Sunday to protest against changes to Spanish law which will make abortion more easily available and introduces abortion on demand right up to 14 weeks of life. Organisers said rallies had taken place in every major city ...

YD member Kate Cullen went undercover to a "Choice Ireland" conference recently and reports back from the poorly-attended event.

The Economist describes itself as an "authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion". It is fiscally conservative but socially liberal (rather like the PDs) and has traditionally taken a strong pro-abortion position, while also supporting embryonic ...

Preliminary findings by a prominent biomedical researcher examining the dramatic decrease in maternal mortality, over the past fifty years in the Latin American nation of Chile, appear to undercut claims by global abortion lobbyists that liberal abortion laws are necessary to reduce maternal ...

Leading pro-life groups Precious Life and Youth Defence have dismissed the results of a poll commissioned by one of the largest abortion providers in the world as "lies, damn lies, and statistics", and being based on "a deliberately spurious premise".

Tempers have flared in Washington according to LifeSite news, as the abortion issue threatens to take down a proposed health care overhaul. As President Obama stepped up the pressure on Congress to "get it done" on health care reform, Rep. Bart Stupak, the author of the amendment banning abortion ...

Following complaints from the Life Institute to the HSE, a taxpayer-funded venue which was listed as a venue for a "DIY Euthanasia workshop" has now confirmed that the event will not take place there.

They may have the media in their pockets but pro-aborts in Ireland can't boast of any popular support from the Irish people. Their annual conference, organised by Choice Ireland, and held in Parnell Square last Saturday, attracted a measly 20 people - and two of those were Youth Defence members ...

Our Lenten campaign continues and it has been most encouraging to see the positive response, with additional help coming forward for campaigns, street sessions, counselling, schools and to volunteer in 60a.

Each year pro-life people gather to remember children killed by abortion, and in particular, to mark the 1992 Supreme Court ruling in the X case which sought to turn Ireland's pro-life constitution on its head.

By any standard RTE is unbecomingly unprofessional when it comes to abortion. Emotive pitches are frequently aired which favour abortion legislation, with barely a nod to the facts, to medical evidence, or to the emerging truth about the abortion industry. While Channel 4 and the New York Times ...

A new billboard campaign by the Polish branch of the U.S.-based Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) links the introduction of abortion in Poland to the Nazi occupation of the country during the Second World War.

The Irish Times has reported that researchers are now studying the reasons why some children born using in vitro fertilisation and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are more likely to have health problems in later life.

The West's awake to the pro-life message, as another successful street information session was held on Galway's busy Shop Street last Saturday. Over 25 members of YD joined in the pro-life event. Although the weather wasn't great, hundreds of people were contacted at a personal level on the street ...

A new media campaign in Georgia links the racism of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, with the disproportionate numbers of African-American abortions performed in the United States every year.

Next week sees the beginning of Lent and Youth Defence are appealing for new volunteers to join their Lenten Campaign for Life.

The European Parliament has passed a motion calling for European Union member states to legalise abortion, and ensure that it is made available at the expense of taxpayers.

Youth Defence can reveal that the newly-established Irish Stem Cell Foundation is not the objective authority it purports to be but was, in fact, founded by a leading advocate of lethal research on human embryos. Furthermore, its founder, Dr Stephen Sullivan returned to Ireland in 2007 with the ...

The pro-life facebook group, Stop Killing people with disabilities is growing fast and hopes to reach 1000 members by St Valentine's Day.

An article titled "Finish it off so it doesn't suffer," which calls for the euthanasia of disabled newborn children, has caused public outrage in Russia and has led to fierce debates in the blogging community.

In a letter to the Irish Times this week, Youth Defence re-iterated its criticism of the self-styled Human Rights Watch group, who last week called for Ireland to legalise abortion. Katie Robinson said that, as a young Irish woman, she took grave exception to the claim by Human Rights Watch that ...

The proposed airing of a pro-life television ad starring famed US footballer Tim Tebow has been defended by the New York Times. The paper, which has taken an often aggressive pro-abortion stance over the years, took issue with pro-aborts who are mounting a campaign to have the advert banned. In ...

Following the hugely successful Viva la Vida! conference the challenge facing Youth Defence's Next Generation Project was to give young people training and opportunities to become leading pro-life activists. We're happy to report that youth activists are responding impressively to that challenge.

In its latest estimate on the economic impact of abortion, the Movement for a Better America is reporting that the abortion toll is projected to climb to a new high of 52,333,000 as of January 22, 2010, the 37th anniversary of Roe V. Wade.

Pro-life forces are responding swiftly to the fierce pro-abortion campaign that is being waged against Focus on the Family's pro-life ad featuring football superstar Tim Tebow, which is set to air on CBS during the Super Bowl on Feb. 7.

Youth Defence, has strongly criticized a self-styled human rights group which has called on the Irish government to legalise abortion in Ireland.

A new poll conducted by Marist Institute for Public Opinion in late December and early January, has found that Americans of all generations are pro-life on abortion - and that those under the age of 44 who oppose abortion most.

Katie Robinson writes: Attending the March for Life in Washington last week was an incredible experience for both myself and the other YD members who travelled over to the USA to join hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers to make a stand for Life and to protest the radical expansion of abortion ...

Another UCC professor has supported the stance taken by his colleague Prof William Reville opposing embryo research. YD ezine readers will recall that Prof Reville wrote in the Irish Times last week that the human embryo should be granted full legal protection. His position was attacked by Dr ...

Long time pro-life leader Greg Smith, a Senior Counsel who now serves as a MP for New South Wales, has welcomed the election of Tony Abbott as leader of the Australian Liberal Party. Mr Smith, a former leader of New South Wales Right to Life, said "Tony's upfront aggression, challenging the Rudd ...

Youth Defence leaders attending the March for Life in Washington are reporting a huge attendance at the 2010 event with hundreds of thousands of people pouring into the Capital from right across the US. "The crowd is enormous, and people are gathering together behind the theme of this year's ...

Maddy Curtis of Bluemont, Virginia, the 16-year-old daughter of an award-winning pro-life blogger, impressed American Idol judges on the show this week, who unanimously advanced her to the next round.

Professor William Reville has called for human embryonic life to be protected, saying that "the deliberate killing of human embryos harms the respect for human life that we intuitively form around our coming into existence and may encourage a more general erosion of respect for life."

Last November we launched the Next Generation Project: with your help and support we're informing, training and motivating young pro-life activists and leaders for the next generation. It's a crucial part of keeping Ireland abortion-free, and we were boosted by the tremendous success of the Viva ...

The Government has appointed a senior counsel who previously argued that a disabled unborn child was not an unborn child deserving constitutional protection to the Supreme Court. Barrister Donal O'Donnell was nominated straight from the Bar on to the Supreme Court - only the second time such a ...

A new report from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs concludes that the number of elderly people worldwide will outnumber children for the first time in 2045, forecasting the start of a "demographic winter" some experts say could constitute the biggest international ...

Russell Turnbull, 38, suffered massive damage to his right eye when he was caught in a scuffle after a night out in Newcastle in 1994. On the bus home, Turnbull had tried to intervene in a fight between two men but was injured when one of them began squirting passengers with ammonia, according to ...

In the past month, the reportage of the ABC case in the Irish media has involved a deliberate attempt to confuse legitimate medical treatments and abortion.

U.S. National Cancer Institute researcher Dr. Louise Brinton, who was the chief organizer of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) workshop in 2003 that persuaded women that it was "well established" that "abortion is not associated with increased breast cancer risk," has reversed her position and ...

Youth Defence has welcomed the result of a Millward Brown IMS poll which found that a large majority support legal protection fro embryonic human beings. The poll asked a sample of 943 people aged 18-plus: "Do you think the Dáil should enshrine the protection of the human embryo in law or not?" ...

Thank you. Despite the many commitments of Christmas, and the havoc being caused by the artic chill, YD's new leaflet explaining the need to protect the human embryos has now reached EVERY constituency in Ireland.

Leading US pro-lifer Jill Stanek has described the publication of photographs of aborted babies by the New York Times as one of the events having the "greatest impact to the pro-life movement in 2009, in both my opinion and the opinion of my blog readers."

Speaking yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI called attention to the writings of John of Salisbury, the Bishop of Chartres in France who died in 1180.

Youth Defence has said that a sustained, nationwide response is now required to ensure that the government moves to protect the human embryo following last Tuesday's Supreme Court judgment in the RvR case which wiped out the legal rights of the human embryo outside the womb.

A new Facebook group is calling for action to "STOP killing people with disabilities". Set up by long-time pro-life activist Tony Barry, the group says "it seeks to promote a positive attitude in society towards people who were born with a disability and to counter act against the negative ...

Mexican pro-lifers were elated when the Vera Cruz amended its state constitution last month to protect life from the moment of conception, joining 16 other Mexican states. The vote set the stage for a possible amendment to the federal constitution: under Mexico's constitution, approval by a ...

A little-publicized decision by Italy's Constitutional Court last month may have significant implications concerning the direction of Europe, strengthening national sovereignty as a bulwark against transnational overreach by European institutions. It also signals the continued importance of ...

Embryo Case: Youth Defence has called on the government to respect the wishes of the people and to move to protect human life from the moment of conception. The pro-life organization made its call as the Supreme Court today dismissed an appeal by a mother of two against the High Court's refusal to ...

In a first for the north, Precious Life took the pro-life message to a higher level when they used one of the popular Belfast open-top sight-seeing buses to promote the pro-life message last week. Thousands of people from all over the island of Ireland who were in Belfast for Christmas shopping ...

You are invited to join with Youth Defence in our Christmas Vigil for Life, to be held on December 19th in O’Connell Street in Dublin at 3pm. The Vigil is a gentle reminder to shoppers of the sanctity of human life and of the true message of Christmas. At a time when the life of the unborn child ...

A new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) shows that countries with an outright ban or restrictive abortion laws are often leaders in reducing maternal mortality, while those with permissive laws often lag behind. According to the report, Ireland has topped the global rankings once again ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has reserved judgment on the ABC case which seeks to impose abortion on Ireland. The case is sponsored by the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) and the plaintiffs claim that our ban on abortion violates their human rights.

Journalist Fiona Looney has said that "from the moment of conception a foetus is a human being" and that "terminating the life of a baby in the womb is the same as going out and shooting someone in the street."

The Life Institute has written to the secretary of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children asking why the unrepresentative pro-abortion campaigners, Choice Ireland, were given a platform to make accusations against crisis pregnancy counsellors.

Members of Youth Defence are travelling to Strasbourg to hold a vigil outside the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) as the hearing of the ABC V Ireland case begins. They said that they were protesting the “profoundly undemocratic push by the abortion industry to seek the imposition of ...

Lucy Mc Cully, SPUC Scotland's education officer spoke last weekend at the Viva La Vida! Conference about the importance of educating Scotland's young people through SPUC's 'Education4Life' schools programme.

A major US TV network affiliate has aired a video interview with Caitlin Bruce, the woman who has sued abortionist Abraham Alberto Hodari for committing a forced abortion on her. Bruce appeared on camera and said that she changed her mind about the abortion and withdrew her consent after viewing ...

We're very glad to pass on the good news that the Northside People newspaper has withdrawn all future advertising for the abortion agency Marie Stopes following numerous calls of complaint this week.

Young people who packed the pro-life youth conference held in Maynooth last weekend, were told that they needed to be pro-life "without compromise, without exception, and without apology". Dr Eoghan de Faoite of Youth Defence said that abortion was the human rights issue of their generation. "You ...

Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences has announced that it will be launching a study into the ethics of using animals that contain human DNA for medical research.

Precious Life has welcomed the High Court decision to order the withdrawal of abortion guidelines issued by the Department of Health (DHSSPS).

A new report from researchers at a university in New Zealand indicates 85 percent of women who had abortions report negative mental health issues as a result. The report is the latest from Professor David Fergusson and his team showing abortions cause problems for women.

The Epoch Times has reported that forced abortions in China are continuing and that one expert believes that the majority of the 13 million abortions performed in the country each year occur without the mothers' consent.

View our promo video for the upcoming Viva la Vida conference in Maynooth at the weekend. And we have just uploaded the conference programme and schedule to the conference page. Look for the downloads on the left hand side.

Tomorrow the Viva la Vida conference begins and it look like being a great success. Aiming to motivate and shape young pro-life activists and leaders, it has attracted widespread interest and is shaping up to be a weekend to remember.

Youth Defence wish to invite you, your family and friends to a Candlelight Commemoration for Baby C on Sunday, November 22nd. This year, a rape victim who had been brought to England by the HSE to have an abortion spoke out on RTÉ. She revealed that she had never wanted the abortion; that ...

"The number of Down's Syndrome pregnancies has risen by more than 70% over the last 20 years, University of London researchers say." 92% of couples opt for an abortion for a Down's syndrome pregnancy. (1) This staggering statistic should be of concern to us all.

Good news: Youth Defence's upcoming youth conference booked out so quickly that the organisers

Pro-life leaders in Ireland face complex challenges. But the movement has resilient, savvy leaders who are fully aware of the land's pro-life heritage and the ongoing battle for life.

Pro-life supporters spoke up for life at last Thursday's conference in NUI Galway co-hosted by the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR) and the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) which exclusively featured pro-abortion speakers. Youth Defence members present said that apart from pro-life ...

While pro-life activists across the US cheered the passing of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the House health care bill, they have warned that the bill remains a serious concern and that the pro-life amendment may yet be dropped at a later stage.

Abby Johnson, 29, used to escort women from their cars to the clinic in the eight years she volunteered and worked for Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas. But she says she knew it was time to leave after she watched a fetus "crumple" as it was vacuumed out of a patient's uterus in September.

Northern Ireland's leading pro-life group Precious Life are calling for a police investigation following the release of official figures which revealed that 92 abortions were carried out in Northern Ireland during 2008. The pro-life group has also challenged the Health Minister to explain the ...

Pro-life candidates have been victorious in several important elections in the U.S. this week. On Tuesday, incumbent Democrat Gov. Jon Corzine conceded defeat to pro-life, pro-family Republican Chris Christie in New Jersey's governor's race.

The director of the Life Institute, Dr Seán Ó Domhnaill, has challenged the Irish Centre for Human Rights in NUI Galway to include a pro-life speaker in its line up for a conference to be held next Thursday dealing with abortion.

Precious Life held a two day Prayer Vigil outside the High Court in Belfast on 27 and 28th October in support of a legal challenge to Department of Health guidelines on abortion in Northern Ireland. The court case was brought by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) to seek a ...

Children of God for Life announced today that Neocutis, a bio-pharmaceutical company focused on dermatology and skin care, is using aborted fetal cell lines to produce several of their anti-aging skin creams.

Youth Defence has said that reports that up 50 per cent of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome at Dublin's Rotunda maternity hospital are being aborted reveal the "ugly nature of the abortion business which is totally lacking in compassion."

The European Parliament has voted against pro-life amendments to stop EU money being spent on coercive and sex-selective abortions.

A report in today's Irish Times has claimed that Trinity College Dublin is to introduce a code of practice which allows for embryonic stem cell research - despite widespread opposition to the practice.

We are just back from Spain where we joined with more than 1.5 million people in a simply colossal Rally for Life in Madrid. At our July rally in Dublin we heard from Marta Serranillos, a member of one of the organizing groups. Derecho a Vivir and we decided that a contingent from Ireland should ...

The claim issued this week by the Guttmacher Institute that abortions should be legalized worldwide because unsafe abortions are killing women as been described as "pure propaganda" by pro-life leaders.

If you took part in the Dublin Rally for Life, or you would just like to see the success of the day, you can watch the new and improved video on YouTube by going to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmafm9wIET4

Many ezine readers will be familiar with the Irish charity Concern, who raise millions each year to help with Third World programs. Now that charity has chosen to promote abortion campaigner Ivana Bacik as one of their "Women of Concern" - a decision that has angered Concern donors who have ...

A British pro-life group has won its case to get the UK government to disclose how many abortions are carried out on disabled unborn children. The government has been ordered by the Information Commissioner to publish the data after the ProLife Alliance won a legal victory at the Information ...

Jim Caviezel, the actor who took the film world by surprise with his moving depiction of Christ in 2004, said this week that abortion has nothing to do with helping women and that he is willing to risk his career to say so.

A British woman who owes the release of her father from prison in Malta in the 1970s to Amnesty International has decided to suspend her support because of group's pro-abortion agenda.

Youth Defence has welcomes Cardinal Brady's condemnation of embryonic stem cell research. Speaking during Mass in St John's Cathedral in Limerick, the Cardinal said that "to plunder human life at its genesis, without respect for its inherent dignity reflects the very moral attitude which has put ...

The pro-sovereignty organization, Cóir, has released a position paper which details the threat to Ireland's pro-life laws from the Lisbon Treaty. It explains that the much-trumpeted "guarantees" on issues such as abortion, taxation and defence are little more than political promises since ...

Ryan Taylor is a musician and artist who has written an anti-abortion song titled THOSE WHO NEVER LIVED. He is looking to promote the song and we think its well worth a listen! Check out his my space page which contains a link to the song ...

The world's largest abortion provider, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), has acknowledged an alarming "surge" in maternal deaths in South Africa, challenging the pro-abortion mantra that liberal abortion laws decrease maternal mortality. Maternal deaths increased by twenty per ...

Cardinal Brady has hit out at attempts to introduce abortion and euthanasia to Ireland. Speaking at the opening of the national novena in Knock shrine, Co Mayo, the cardinal described the efforts of individuals and groups to introduce abortion to Ireland and the increased pressure to accede to ...

The Life Institute has said that reports of an increase in the number of women attending necessary medical check-ups after abortion was indicative of the unsafe nature of the procedure for both mother and baby. The Irish Times has reported that the number of women attending post-abortion medical ...

Pro-life leaders have criticised senior judges in Britain for supporting assisted suicide in their judgment in the case of Ms Debbie Purdy.

CNA reports that a Turkish researcher has reported a statistically significant 66 percent increase in breast cancer risk among women who have had an abortion.

US football star Tim Tebow has told a press conference that the publicity given to his mother's story has helped other women choose not to abort their unborn children. Tebow's mother, who serves as a Christian missionary together with her husband, was pressured to abort Tebow following a ...

Two years ago Amnesty International lost thousands of supporters when it said it would adopt a new policy supporting abortion. Now, an Irish journalist has written that "Amnesty International has gone in recent years from being an organisation devoted to the rights of prisoners-of-conscience in ...

The exciting and hugely successful Rally for Life on July 4th has attracted worldwide attention with reports on the Rally appearing in newspapers and websites as far flung as Canada and Australia.

30-week-old babies in the womb already have short-term memory capabilities, a new study from the Netherlands, published in the July/August 2009 issue of the journal Child Development, has found.

British woman, Baroness Campbell, has written an extraordinarily moving testimony opposing moves to legalise assisted suicide in the UK. She describes her own experience as a person with disabilities when listening to doctors discuss whether her life was worth living.

Ministers of UN member-states, last week by consensus, adopted a declaration on global public health, after tough negotiations which involved two marathon late-night sessions, and during which Ireland, Poland and Malta held out against strongly pro-abortion language proposed by the US and other EU ...

Pro-life leaders have demanded that the Health Service Executive answer urgent questions regarding the C case where the state brought a teenage rape victim to Britain for an abortion against her parents' wishes.

The world's population is becoming steadily greyer with the number of people aged over 65 on course to overtake the number of infants for the first time in history, a study has found.

Youth Defence has said that a new campaign by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency to attack pro-life counseling has revealed a “sinister desire for censorship”. The CPA, which has received more than €35 million in taxpayer funding to date, had previously attempted to force counselling agencies such ...

Twice before the US pro-life organization CatholicVote.org has produced pro-life ads that have attracted national attention, being viewed millions of times online - despite the fact that (or perhaps because) major networks, including CNN, refused to air them.

The European Court of Human Rights has agreed to hear a case taken by three women in Ireland who wish to overturn Ireland’s ban on abortion in a full hearing before its grand chamber of 17 judges. The case is being funded by the Irish Family Planning Association.

The truth in regard to the appalling exploitation of the young girl at the centre of the 1997 C-case continues to be revealed. Today on the Pat Kenny Show, the girl, who is a now a young woman, told the nation that she didn’t even know what an abortion was when she was brought by social workers, ...

Three days after the huge success of the Rally for Life young pro-life volunteers took off on Youth Defence's Annual Roadshow. Last Wednesday streets sessions were held in Drogheda and Dundalk where the response was so positive that the supply of leaflets which were to last until Friday were ...

Cóir has described the attempt by Swedish politicians to use the Lisbon Treaty to call for the legalization of abortion in Ireland as "profoundly undemocratic but very revealing". The pro-sovereignty organization said that the move by the Swedish campaigners would unsettle Irish voters who ...

The Nationwide Pro-life Information Roadshow left Dublin for Drogheda and Dundalk on Wednesday. Such was the response in Drogheda, that the supplies that were due to last until today were gone by the end of the day! Next Monday the Digivan will join us for four days showing pro-life videos, short ...

It was a day to remember. Despite the rain clouds which threatened all morning (and the torrent that came down at 1.50pm) the sun burst forth as the Rally for Life moved off from the Garden of Remembrance towards O'Connell Street. An estimated 4,500-5,000 people joined in the Rally, sending a ...

Organisers of the Rally for Life have said that the decision by the Irish media to blank the massive pro-life rally, has served to highlight the "insular and anti-life thinking dominating Irish media organs". However, Youth Defence spokeswoman, Íde Nic Mhathúna, said that the Rally ...

Just before 2pm on Saturday, the sun burst through the clouds which had gathered over Dublin all morning, and an enormous cheer went up from the Rally for Life. Thousands of pro-life people, of all ages, set off through Dublin's busy city centre in a colourful and lively pro-life march which saw ...

One day left to go: The organizing committee of the Rally for Life has urged all pro-life people to make a special effort to attend tomorrow’s pro-life rally which meets at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin at 2pm.

An amendment to a bill going through the Houses of Parliament in Britain proposes that 'mercy killers' should face charges of manslaughter and not murder. The bill, The Coroners and Justice Bill was originally aimed at tightening up the Suicide Act 1961 to prevent the internet promotion of youth ...

Last month, Mrs Nuala Conway, from Dunamore, gave birth to four girls and two boys 14 weeks prematurely. She told the Sunday Express newspaper that "These babies are a wonderful gift from God," in her first interview.

By a vote of 13-1, the legislature in the small state of Imo, Nigeria rejected the Reproductive Rights Bill last week, marking a pro-life victory in a state whose rich heritage, culture and religious traditions welcome life and respect the lives of unborn children.

Three women volunteers dismissed five years ago by Cura, the Catholic Church's pregnancy agency, have been reinstated with an apology. The women were among four volunteers who refused to distribute leaflets they said gave contact numbers for abortion referrals.

A history of miscarriages and abortions increases a woman's chances of giving birth too early. Scientists from Britain, Denmark and Spain analysed the results of 75 investigations into early pregnancy complications conducted between 1980 and 2008.

A British woman collapsed and died from a blood clot just three months after she started taking a new contraceptive pill. Helen Schofield was not told there was a risk of deep vein thrombosis when her GP prescribed Dianette. But weeks later Miss Schofield, 33, collapsed as she was walking with ...

The Mother and Child Campaign has said that a robust campaign is planned to ensure that "euthanasia is not allowed to threaten the lives of the elderly, the sick and the vulnerable."

A new study has shown that one in five women are remaining childless as an increasing proportion choose not to marry and put their career before raising a family.

With only eight days to go until the July 4th Rally for Life in Dublin, organiser say momentum is building towards what they hope will be a powerful and joyous event.

The pro-life group Youth Defence has said that a Health Service Executive (HSE) statement which linked Ireland’s high waiting times for spinal operations with our ban on abortion, was both “shocking” and “completely out of touch with the ethos of the Irish people”.

In 2007 the Rally for Life held in Dublin surpassed all expectations, bringing the largest number of pro-lifers in a decade together to speak out for unborn children. It was a colourful, exciting event, with a carnival-like atmosphere but it had a very serious message: Keeping Ireland Abortion Free.

In an explosive revelation, a young woman who was brought by the Irish state to have an abortion when she was just 13 years old, has now said that she was unaware of what abortion was at the time her baby was killed. She also told the Irish Star newspaper that when she awoke following the abortion ...

With just four weeks left until July 4th, momentum is building for the Rally for Life 2009.

Baby Faith Dies at 93 Days : Doctors Had Pressured Mother to Abort Anencephalic Daughter

Twelve months after the Lisbon Treaty referendum, abortion has remained a hot topic for the EU elections.

Precious Life has welcomed the latest government statistics which have shown a drop in the number of women from Northern Ireland having abortions in Britain. The abortion statistics for 2008 revealed that the number fell by 170.

The leader of Spain's main opposition party said Friday that the new abortion law proposed by the ruling Socialist Worker's Party is "unacceptable and immoral," and he will fight it all the way to the nation's Constitutional Tribunal, the highest court for cases regarding constitutional law.

The government of Spain has approved a plan to expand the law allowing legal abortions there despite strong opposition from the pro-life community.

Swedish health authorities have ruled that gender-based abortion is not illegal according to current law and can not therefore be stopped, according to a report by Sveriges Television.

A grandmother has made medical history as the world's oldest ever stem cell donor, to save her younger brother's life.

Youth Defence has welcomed the results of an opinion poll showing that the majority of Irish people wish to protect human life.

A pro-life activist who took part in protests against the recently-abandoned euthanasia lecture in Cork has said that RTÉ refused protestors a right to reply, and that the station, along with other media organs, were hiding Len Doyal's extreme views on the ending of life.

Despite short notice of the event, almost 150 people turned up to 'make a stand for life' in recognition and remembrance of over 7 million little babies killed by abortion in the 41 years since the implementation of that evil Act.

Baby Faith Hope Walker was born just over 10 weeks ago to 23 year-old Myah Walker.  Myah, a single mother and student living in Moncton, New Brunswick, was told when she was 19 weeks pregnant that the child suffered from anencephaly, and that Faith Hope had not developed a large part of her ...