The week in prolife news . . .

• LIFE has commented on the overturning of the harassment conviction of Northern Irish prolife campaigner Bernadette Smyth.
• How reliable is the first data from Ireland's new abortion laws? Dublin journalist Greg Daly does the maths.
• Meanwhile the Evangelical Alliance has been examining the recent abortion data.
• Very moving video showing the agonies associated with abortion for a woman.

• In Belgium, a 24-year-old woman, who is neither terminally ill nor physically unwell, has been allowed to have assisted suicide because of her "suicidal thoughts".
• Use this website to contact your MP to ask them to oppose Rob Marris' assisted suicide Bill.
• The Evangelical Alliance have some good resources for contacting lawmakers.
• Lord David Alton asks why we should assist suicide when we don't encourage it.
• It's behind a paywall, but for subscribers to The Economist this is an excellent response to the Marris Bill by Baroness Ilora Finlay (who is a Professor of palliative medicine).

• BioNews notes the urgent need for reform of surrogacy law.
• "How the law has failed children of anonymous sperm donors" - highly important article.
• Beautifully moving video of a newborn child reluctant to be separated from its mother.