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LIFE (UK Organisation)
Life is an anti-abortion organization and maternal support charity based in the United Kingdom. The charity was founded in 1970 by husband and wife Jack and Nuala Scarisbrick. Catholics and evangelicals form the majority of Life's membership and support. For the year ended June 2021 the charity had a turnover of £3.4 million. History The charity was founded by Jack and Nuala Scarisbrick in August 1970 in response to the passage of the Abortion Act 1967, which legalised abortion in the United Kingdom. Life has stated its mission is to "not give up until those facing difficult pregnancies can choose life and abortion is a thing of the past"; the National Catholic Register described it as a group "dedicated to the removal of the Abortion Act from the country’s statute books". Initially run out of their family home in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the Scarisbricks hosted expectant mothers who were waiting to enter the local maternity hospital. Life later expanded, establishing ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charitable Organization
A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, Religion, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good). The legal definition of a charitable organization (and of charity) varies between countries and in some instances regions of the country. The Charity regulators, regulation, the tax treatment, and the way in which charity law affects charitable organizations also vary. Charitable organizations may not use any of their funds to profit individual persons or entities. However, some charitable organizations have come under scrutiny for spending a disproportionate amount of their income to pay the salaries of their leadership. Financial figures (e.g. tax refunds, revenue from fundraising, revenue from the sale of goods and services or revenue from investment, and funds held in reserve) are indicators to assess the financial sustainability of a charity, especiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Pregnancy Advisory Service
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is a British charity whose stated purpose is to avoid unwanted pregnancy by advocating and providing high quality, affordable services to prevent or end unwanted pregnancies with contraception or by abortion. Origin BPAS was founded in Birmingham, England in 1968 by Diane Munday and others as the Birmingham Pregnancy Advisory Service. On the day that the Abortion Act 1967 came into force, Saturday 27 April 1968, the first patients had their consultations in the front room of the then chairman, Dr Martin Cole.Calthorpe Clinic Medical Seminar 26 September 2007 . At that time, patients had to travel to London for termination but a clinic was opened in Birmingham 18 months later. Abortion In addition to p ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford University Student Union
The Oxford University Students' Union is the official students' union of the University of Oxford. It is better known in Oxford under the branding Oxford SU or by its previous name of OUSU. It exists to represent Oxford University students in the university's decision-making, to act as the voice for students in the national higher education policy debate, and to provide direct services to the student body. History In 1961, the University of Oxford Proctors banned the student magazine ''ISIS magazine, Isis'' from publishing reviews of lectures. Students resisted, and legally incorporated the Oxford University Student Representative Council (OUSRC) for the first time. They then agitated for formal university recognition of the OUSRC, and petitioned the United Kingdom's Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Privy Council, asking the government to amend the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act 1859. Rather than risk having its hand forced by legislation, the university relente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crisis Pregnancy Center
A crisis pregnancy center (CPC), sometimes called a pregnancy resource center (PRC) or a pro-life pregnancy center, is a type of nonprofit organization established by anti-abortion movement in the United States, anti-abortion groups primarily to persuade pregnant women not to have an abortion. In the United States, there are an estimated 2,500 to 4,000 CPCs that qualify as clinic, medical clinics that may also provide pregnancy testing, Ultrasound, sonograms, and other services; many others operate without medical licensing under varying degrees of regulation. For comparison, there were 807 Abortion clinic, abortion clinics in the United States as of 2020. Hundreds more CPCs operate outside of the U.S., including in Canada, Latin America, Africa, and Europe. CPCs have frequently been found to disseminate #False medical information, false medical information about the supposed Abortion#Safety, physical and Abortion and mental health, mental health risks of abortion; they someti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brook Advisory Centres
Brook Advisory Centres were set up by Lady Helen Brook in 1964 offering contraceptive advice to young single people under the age of 25. Brook was asked in 1958 by the Eugenics Society to run the birth control clinic they had just been bequeathed by Marie Stopes. This clinic, unlike the Family Planning Association The Family Planning Association (FPA) was a UK registered charity working to enable people to make informed choices about sex and to enjoy sexual health. It was the national affiliate for the International Planned Parenthood Federation in th ... where Brook had previously worked, was not required to confine its service to married women or women who could prove that they were very shortly to be married. The work of the Centres was facilitated by the National Health Service (Family Planning) Act 1967. Brook, who had worked as a volunteer for the Family Planning Association, was Chairman of the organisation from 1964 to 1974 and President 1974–97. Until her deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Furedi
Ann Marie Furedi (' Bradley; born 31 October 1960) is an English former journalist and abortion rights activist. She is the former chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), the UK's largest independent abortion provider. Biography Furedi studied a master degree in philosophy at the University of Sussex, and has been awarded a DSc by the University of Kent. Prior to her career in pro-choice organisations, Furedi was a journalist, specialising in healthcare features for women's magazines, including ''Cosmopolitan'' and ''Company'', sometimes writing under her maiden name, Bradley. She is also known as Ann Burton. In the early 1980s, she worked for the National Council for Civil Liberties as its Gay Rights Officer. Furedi was a contributor to the '' LM Magazine'' until it folded in 2000 after being found to have libelled ITN journalists. She has also contributed to '' Spiked Online'', a British online magazine, that identifies itself as libertarian human ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-abortion
Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its Abortion by country, legality. Many anti-abortion movements began as countermovements in response to the legalization of elective abortions. Europe In Europe, abortion law varies by country, and has been legalized through parliamentary acts in some countries, and constitutionally banned or heavily restricted in others. In Western Europe this has had the effect at once of both more closely regulating the use of abortion, and at the same time mediating and reducing the impact anti-abortion campaigns have had on the law. France The first specifically anti-abortion organization in France, Laissez-les-vivre-SOS futures mères, was created in 1971 during the debate that was to lead to the Simone Veil#Minister of Health, 1974–1979, Veil Law in 1975. Its main spokesman was the geneticist Jérôme Lejeune. Since 2005, the French a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Care Not Killing
Care Not Killing is an alliance of multiple groups, including faith-based and pro-life organisations, opposed to legalising euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide in the United Kingdom. The alliance was founded in 2006. Care Not Killing operates through a UK private limited company, CNK Alliance Limited. The stated goals of Care Not Killing include promoting more and better palliative care, ensuring that existing laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are not weakened or repealed during the lifetime of the current Parliament, influencing the balance of public opinion against any weakening of the law. They are opposed in their efforts by pro-assisted dying groups such as Dignity in Dying and Humanists UK. Background Between 2003 and 2006 legislative attempts to legalise physician-assisted dying were made after the prominent human rights lawyer Lord Joffe proposed a Private Member's Bill entitled the "Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill" in the House of Lord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloning
Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, either by natural or artificial means. In nature, some organisms produce clones through asexual reproduction; this reproduction of an organism by itself without a mate is known as parthenogenesis. In the field of biotechnology, cloning is the process of creating cloned organisms of Cell (biology), cells and of DNA fragments. The artificial cloning of organisms, sometimes known as reproductive cloning, is often accomplished via somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a cloning method in which a viable embryo is created from a somatic cell and an egg cell. In 1996, Dolly (sheep), Dolly the sheep achieved notoriety for being the first mammal cloned from a somatic cell. Another example of artificial cloning is molecular cloning, a technique in molecular biology in which a single living cell is used to clone a large population of cells that contain identical DNA molecules. In bioethics, there are a vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abortion
Abortion is the early termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. Abortions that occur without intervention are known as miscarriages or "spontaneous abortions", and occur in roughly 30–40% of all pregnancies. Deliberate actions to end a pregnancy are called induced abortion, or less frequently "induced miscarriage". The unmodified word ''abortion'' generally refers to induced abortion. Common reasons for having an abortion are birth-timing and limiting family size. Other reasons include maternal health, an inability to afford a child, domestic violence, lack of support, feelings of being too young, wishing to complete an education or advance a career, or not being able or willing to raise a child conceived as a result of rape or incest. When done legally in industrialized societies, induced abortion is one of the safest procedures in medicine. Modern methods use medication or surgery for abortions. The drug mifepristone (aka RU-4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pregnancy Loss
Pregnancy loss is the loss of an embryo or fetus. The terms early pregnancy loss and late pregnancy loss are often used but there is no consensus over their definitions. Unintentional pregnancy loss * Miscarriage ** Toxic abortion, caused by pollution or chemical exposures * Implantation failure * Molar pregnancy * Embryo loss * Fetal resorption * Blighted ovum * Vanishing twin * Stillbirth Pregnancy loss through termination * Foeticide ** Abortion *** Selective reduction to reduce the number of fetuses in a multiple pregnancy *** Hysterotomy abortion, a surgical abortion of a non-viable fetus performed similar to a cesarean section *** Late-term abortion *** Self-induced abortion *** Sex-selective abortion *** Forced abortion ** Child destruction See also * Pregnancy with abortive outcome * Perinatal mortality * Murder of pregnant women Pregnancy-associated femicide is a form of gender-based violence involving the murder of a woman during the period of pregnancy and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pregnancy
Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring gestation, gestates inside a woman's uterus. A multiple birth, multiple pregnancy involves more than one offspring, such as with twins. Conception (biology), Conception usually occurs following sexual intercourse, vaginal intercourse, but can also occur through assisted reproductive technology procedures. A pregnancy may end in a Live birth (human), live birth, a miscarriage, an Abortion#Induced, induced abortion, or a stillbirth. Childbirth typically occurs around 40 weeks from the start of the Menstruation#Onset and frequency, last menstrual period (LMP), a span known as the Gestational age (obstetrics), ''gestational age''; this is just over nine months. Counting by Human fertilization#Fertilization age, ''fertilization age'', the length is about 38 weeks. Implantation (embryology), Implantation occurs on average 8–9 days after Human fertilization, fertilization. An ''embryo'' is the term for the deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
