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:

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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."

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ...