Right to Life

(Right to Life and Passion for Life Campaign led by Lord Alton of Liverpool is seeking to get the electorate to get answers from all parliamentary candidates in the forthcoming election on important pro life issues and to vote accordingly).

Right to Life is a political lobby group defending the right to life from conception to natural death. It works more closely with Pro Life Parliamentarians and the All Party Parliamentary Pro Life Group than any other political lobby group defending the Right to Life from conception to natural death. It’s recent campaigns have been on the Human Fertilization and Embryology Act, campaigning against the production of human embryos, hybrid (animal/human) embryos, saviour siblings and defending the child’s right to a father.

More recently RTL raised awareness and lobbied Peers to vote against an amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill that would have assisted suicide.

The organisation is now opposing the Director of Public Prosecutions’ Guidelines on Assisted Suicide which they consider overrules the Primacy of Parliament in legalising assisted suicide.

RTL documents and records how MPs vote on all life issues, so that interested parties can find out how their MPs have voted.

The RTL lobby group also has a separate Trust - please see their website here.

The Right to Life Charitable Trust works to help some of the most vulnerable members of our society. They provide support for pregnant women in difficult circumstances and work for the sick and the elderly: people who find themselves in need and have nowhere else to turn. They have also financed a number of cases where families have been concerned about the hospital treatment received by relatives at the end of life.

HFE bill; The results!

In the House of Commons on Wednesday evening (22nd Oct), MPs voted for the HFE bill, and all the devastating effects it will have on the sanctity and dignity of human life. However, there is some good news. The government had come under enormous pressure not to change the abortion law, event though many extreme backbench pro-abortion MPs had been pushing for a mass liberalisation of the law for months. The Passion for Life campaign would like to thank all it's supporters for distributing almost 2million postcards, attending public meetings the length and bread of the UK, emailing, writing, phoning MPs, and making it very clear indeed that the public do not want more liberalisation of the abortion act. On the votes that took place, here's how your MP voted. Please make sure you drop them a line to thank them if they voted how you wanted, or to express your disapointment if they didn't!