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Reincarnation of Arguments Demolished  50 Years Ago  Beautiful survivor Pro-abortionists in 2018 are dredging up arguments which were used more than 50 years ago to support  the Aborti...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2018/02/recycling-pro-abortion-arguments.html

In early 2013 there were brief press reports (see here  and here ) of a case in the Court of Protection where the court was asked to decide whether a woman described as being "mentally disabl...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2016/01/i-n-early-2013-there-were-brief-press.html

We must tell the truth but in order to do so in legal matters it is absolutely essential to read the words of the relevant Act of Parliament or the words of an important relevant court judgemen...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2016/01/28-week-time-limt-for-abortion-never.html

THE ASSOCIATION OF LAWYERS FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE UNBORN BLACK IS NOT WHITE In 1983 ALDU considered the words of the then Attorney General (Sir Michael Havers QC) given in Parliament in his...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2016/01/morning-after-pill-1983_7.html

The article below in the Spring of 1984 was commenting on the so called "statistical argument" for abortion which alleges that statistics show that abortion is always safer for the mother than c...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2014/04/abortion-statistical-lie.html

In order to argue agains supporters of abortion, it is first necessary to understand what they believe and how their ideas influence their actions.  There is no point in us pro-lifers construct...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2014/03/abortion-arguing-pro-life-case.html

There has been a recent smear campaign carried out against so called pro-life Crisis Pregnancy Centres (CPC) in the UK.  Undercover journalists from the Daily Telegraph visited 33 CPCs, sometim...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2014/02/support-pro-life-pregnancy-advice.html

Over 32 years ago, the then Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Professor Gareth Crompton, wrote to doctors in Wales reminding them not to carry out illegal abortions - just in case they might ...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2014/02/reminder-to-abortionists-obey-law.html

We have considered in previous blogs here and here the way in which the Rule of Law is ignored, so far as abortion practice is concerned.  Ignoring the law is a tactic that has been used by p...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2014/01/rule-of-law-and-abortion.html

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Today Alison Davis died and we send our sincere condolences to her family and friends and especially to her carer Colin Harte.  Ms Davis was the founder and national co-ordinator of No Less Hu...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/12/alison-davis-pro-life-heroine-rest-in.html

The following article appeared in ALDU's Newsletter for Summer 1988, encouraging ALDU members to talk to friends and colleagues and indeed to anyone, whenever the opportunity presented itself,...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/11/arguing-case-for-unborn-children.html

In Autumn 1992 ALDU commented briefly about two cases in which the courts made clear that unborn children were entitled to sue the perpetrator of injuries caused to them before birth.  The issu...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/08/human-but-not-person.html

Below is a short article in which ALDU considered some of the then recently created Human Fertilisation and Embryology 1990, an Act which had been introduced into Parliament by Lord Mackay of Cl...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/07/hfe-act-1990-some-extracts-and-comments.html

In 1988 ALDU commented upon the way in which judges in many parts of the world had been making law, especially in cases of deep ethical and moral concern.  Politicians know that these issues ar...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/07/abortion-law-made-by-judges.html

"There is also nothing in the Bill which compels a Catholic patient or a Catholic doctor to be in any way involved in the termination of a pregnancy" (David Steel Hansard 22 July 1966 column 1...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/06/conscientious-objection-for-midwives.html

Lord Habgood In the Spring 1987 Newsletter, we published correspondence between ALDU's Chairman, Mr David Poole QC (later His Honour Mr Justice Poole) and the then Archbishop of York, Most R...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/06/uncertainty-death-for-human-embryos.html

AN ARTICLE IN A RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPER DATED 31 MAY 2013 CONTAINS A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF EFFORTS MADE BY PRO-LIFERS TO AMEND THE UK ABORTION LAW.  THE ARTICLE STATES, > "LEGISLATIVE EFFORTS, HO...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/06/no-uk-abortion-28-week-time-limit.html

Approximately 98% of abortions in the UK are carried out on the grounds of risk to the mental health of the mother and yet the doctors signing the abortion certificates are very rarely, if ever,...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/05/abortion-mental-health-and-good-faith.html

IN THE AUTUMN OF 1989 THE THEN CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF MARGARET THATCHER, PUBLISHED THE HUMAN FERTILISATION AND EMBRYOLOGY BILL WHICH DULY BECAME THE HFE ACT 1990.  IN ...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/05/brave-new-world-death-for-human-embryos.html

Professor Kenneth Norri The following was published by ALDU in Spring 1986 and refers to an article by Mr (now Professor) Kenneth Norrie and published the previous year by Criminal Law Revie...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/04/potential-child-no-such-thing.html

DR SIR ROBERT GEOFFREY EDWARDS CBE FRS Acres of newsprint have been published about this Nobel Prize winner who has died recently - hagiography writ large.  It is not usually appropriate to s...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/04/robert-edwards-knew-he-was-killing.html

THE HUMAN FERTILISATION AND EMBRYOLOGY AUTHORITY IN AUTUMN 1985 ALDU NOTED BRIEFLY THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE WARNOCK REPORT THAT A LICENSING AUTHORITY SHOULD BE SET UP TO OVERSEE ALL THE GHASTL...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/03/slaughter-of-human-embryos-part-5.html

AS AN AIDE MEMOIR, ALDU PRODUCED A SINGLE SHEET CONTAINING THE ESSENTIAL DETAILS OF UK ABORTION LAW.  RECOGNISING THAT FOR NON LAWYERS, TRACING THE TEXT OF RELEVANT STATUTES IS NOT ALWAYS EASY ...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/03/as-aide-memoir-aldu-produced-single.html

IN 1992 ALDU PUBLISHED A BRIEF COMMENTARY ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSING OF THE ABORTION ACT AND IN 2002 ON THE 35TH ANNIVERSARY ALDU PROVIDED ITS MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS WITH A MORE DE...

http://aldulaw.blogspot.com/2013/03/abortion-act-1967-35th-anniversary.html