Each year, Youth Defence organises a pro-life trek across Ireland called The Roadshow. The Roadshow brings a group of people together from various ages, backgrounds and nationalities, in order to promote the sanctity of human life.

In June 2009, LifeSiteNews broke the shocking story that African hospitals funded by the USA President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) were using resources to force AIDS patients to be sterilized against their will.

Missouri just passed a law that will significantly enhance the state's informed consent protections for pregnant women and make Missouri the fifth state to opt out of the abortion mandate in the federal health care law.

Billionaire investing mogul Warren Buffett has been secretly backing a campaign to combat the decrease in doctors who are training as abortionists and to bring abortion into the mainstream of medicine, revealed the New York Times this week. In a NYT's cover story, journalist Emily Bazelon ...

A man named Richard Rudd was left paralysed and brain damaged after suffering a motorbike accident last October. Richard's father reluctantly gave permission for treatment to be withdrawn from his 43-year-old son at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

With just two weeks to go until Kenyans vote on a new Constitution, World Congress of Families Managing Director Larry Jacobs announced the conclusion of a successful petition drive, "In Support Of The 'No' Campaign - Kenyans Opposed To The Pro-Abortion Constitution."

Organisers of the hugely successful Rally for Life in Belfast say they were thrilled with the huge turnout for life in Belfast. Up to 4,000 people marched in the bright sunshine through the packed Belfast shopping district, which came to a standstill as the colourful and lively parade passed ...

Just four days after the Rally, Youth Defence's National Pro-Life Roadshow got underway visiting twenty towns and cities in ten days of non-stop pro-life activity. Up to 70 young people will take part in the event which reaches many thousands of people each year.

This year, as part of their Summer Youth Program, SPUC Scotland has organised their first Summer Roadshow. Organiser Joe Lee told YD "We are going to be visiting different cities throughout Scotland spreading the pro-life message with our street stall. We'll be getting information out there as to ...

The Life Institute has said that the recent nomination of Irish High Court judge, Justice Liam McKechnie, to the Supreme Court is of concern to pro-life activists. Spokesman Dr Sean O Domhnaill said that the government's decision to nominate McKechnie is particularly worrying given that it comes ...

A heart-warming story in the Daily Mail, tells of the premature baby given a million-to-one chance of survival and who is now a thriving toddler. At a time when there are disturbing calls in the UK to abandon treatment for premature babies, it's a story that inspires.

Ethicist Wesley Smith, who toured Irish colleges with Youth Defence as part of their "Stop Embryo Research in UCC" campaign writes an exceptionally well-informed blog on ethical issues.

The Archbishop of Burgos, Francisco Gil Hellin, has issued a call to Spanish Catholics to resist the country's new abortion law, which he says is no law at all.

We're very glad to report that, just days after the massive Rally for Life in Belfast, the health department in the north of Ireland has officially withdrawn the abortion guidelines they had re-issued. As previously reported, pro-life organizations have argued from the beginning that this document ...

Up to four thousand people have attended the All Ireland Rally for Life in Belfast. The colourful parade attracted maximum attention as it made its way though the busy Belfast shopping district before hearing speeches from pro-life leaders in Custom House Square.

The Bishop of Raphoe has sent a strong pro-life message to the All-Ireland Rally for Life which will take place tomorrow in Belfast.

The Life Institute has said that a foetal pain study carried out by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (RCOG), ignored published evidence of fetal pain and awareness and misses the point of opposition to abortion.

Germany' s Federal high court in a landmark ruling has opened the door to limited euthanasia if a person requests explicitly not to be kept alive by artificial means.

Elena Kagan, the choice of President Barack Obama to fill the void on the U. S. Supreme Court, is a disaster. Her confirmation seems a sure thing, and if she is confirmed, it will mean not only that we will have another judge who supports abortion, but we will have one who will make the ...

The All-Ireland Rally for Life, which will take place in Belfast on Saturday, will see the launch of a major six month campaign to prevent embryo research and embryo killing becoming legal in Ireland.

Youth Defence's youth conference Viva La Vida!, promises to live up the standard of their already-renowned International Activists' Conferences, and is now just three weeks away, so get booking!

This Saturday, the streets of Madrid will once again be taken over by the Spanish March for Life. The organisers, led by the organisation Derecho a Vivir (though there are hundreds of groups involved), are hoping to build on the 500,000-strong crowd that gathered in March of this year to show ...

A Pro-Life Youth Conference scheduled for November will feature a line-up of internationally renowned pro-life speakers, including Gianna Jessen, the abortion survivor, and Lila Rose, the student journalist whose undercover work has exposed the worst of Planned Parenthood practices in the US.

Amnesty International recently issued its 2009 survey of what it considers to be the state of human rights throughout the world. Of particular interest to social conservatives is Amnesty's continued campaign to advance a "right" to abortion globally.