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LIFE is a UK-based "pro-life and educational" charity. It was founded in 1970 by Professor Jack Scarisbrick and his wife Nuala in response to the Abortion Act 1967, which greatly extended access to legal abortion in the United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland). LIFE National Headquarters is situated in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. The organisation holds a National Conference approximately every eighteen months, and publishes a quarterly magazine, Life Update. LIFE has in the region of 12,000 members in the UK. Its patrons include well-known anti abortion parliamentarians such as Lord David Alton and Jim Dobbin MP. == Activities == LIFE was founded to provide an alternative to those faced with a crisis pregnancy and the charity’s work is informed by the principle of respect for the lives of all human beings, both born and unborn. LIFE was one of the first anti-abortion organisations in the UK to pioneer this two-pronged approach of opposing abortion yet also providing viable long-term alternatives. More recently, LIFE’s daughter charity the Zoe’s Place Trust has opened three hospices for terminally ill children, one in Liverpool, one in Coventry and another in Middlesbrough. Other areas in which the charity has expanded its work include its UK-wide sex and relationships education programme, and the provision of fertility treatment that accords with the charity’s views on the status of the human embryo, while the 1990s saw the creation of a professionalised and centralised LIFE Housing department able to co-ordinate closely with local authorities and social services. LIFE also has links to anti-abortion groups in other countries, notably Malta, Sri Lanka and the Republic of Ireland. Although access to abortion is heavily restricted in Northern Ireland – much more so than in the rest of the UK – there are a number of active local LIFE groups in the region. The possibility of the extension of the 1967 Act to Northern Ireland has long been a source of heated debate (Abortion in the UK), and a legal challenge to Northern Ireland's abortion law will be heard in February 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LIFE (UK organisation)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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