CULTURE OF LIFE – Heritage Party will overturn abortion-to birth and assisted suicide.
We have updated The Heritage Party Manifesto for 2025. We are the only party with a manifesto section on LIFE with commitments to abolish abortion, except to save the life of the mother, and to repeal any legislation allowing euthanasia.
A CULTURE OF LIFE
The Heritage Party is pro-life. We believe in the dignity of every human being and that every life is infinitely precious. This includes the sick, the disabled, the elderly and unborn children, who all have an inalienable right to life.
Abortion
11 million abortions have been carried out in the UK since the Abortion Act in 1967, and now there are over 250,000 abortions per year in the UK. Unborn children are children. In every abortion a human life is ended.
We will end legal abortion except to save the life of the mother. The culture of abortion should be replaced with a culture of life, firstly by encouraging personal responsibility to avoid the need for abortions in the first place, and then by providing help and support, or alternatives such as adoption to mothers when needed.
To this end, we will fully restore the protections afforded to unborn children in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929.
We shall repeal those laws that decriminalise abortion or criminalise protest about abortion:
Abortion Act 1967
Northern Ireland Act 2019 Section 9
Public Order Act 2023 Section 9
Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 2024
Crime and Policing Bill 2025
We will prohibit ‘pills by post’ whereby poisons that kill unborn children are delivered for use at home. These poisons not only kill innocent human beings but contaminate the water supply after use.
We will completely defund UK government support for abortion programs outside the UK.
Crisis Pregnancy Services
After defunding all abortion centres, we will instead fund Crisis Pregnancy Centres that give support and counselling to mothers who have an unplanned pregnancy and practical help during the process of deciding to keep their baby or give it up for adoption.
Embryo Experimentation
‘Embryos’ are human beings. They should not be used for scientific experiments. Such experimentation breaks the Nuremberg Code. We will repeal the laws that allow such experimentation on these vulnerable human beings just after conception, i.e. the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.
Gender Mutilation
The state must not support practices that cause genital mutilation and sterility. The ’gender affirmation’ model for gender dysphoria must be abandoned in the healthcare and education sectors and replaced with a return to addressing the underlying issues behind body dysmorphia conditions when they occur. Puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender surgery should never be administered to children under 18.
We support counselling and therapy for people seeking help with gender dysphoria or unwanted same-sex attraction: we oppose any ban on talking therapies, counselling, prayer and pastoral care for these issues that far-left activists pejoratively call ‘conversion therapy’.
Euthanasia
The Heritage Party is also concerned for the sanctity of life of older and disabled people. The elderly have as much right to healthcare as the young, and they should not be made to feel a burden. We shall emphasise the Hippocratic Oath and stop nihilistic elements in the medical profession from wreaking destruction. ‘Do not resuscitate’ orders have been liberally applied in hospitals, often without consent.
We will oppose and repeal any legalisation that legalises assisted suicide, or any change to the medical code of conduct that allows arbitrary deprivation of treatment.
Palliative Care
It is palliative care, not euthanasia, that helps people to die with dignity at the end of their lives. Hospices and others who provide palliative care must be properly and thoroughly funded and honoured for the work they do.
Parental Rights over Life
There must never be a repeat of the traumatic cases of Alfie Evans, Charlie Gard and Sudiksha Thirumalesh, when activist judges and medical practitioners refused to allow these children to receive treatments offered by other hospitals. No medical practitioner, judge or magistrate should have a right to decide to block a patient from receiving an offer of a potentially life-saving treatment, over and above the express wishes of the next-of-kin, especially the parents or spouse of a patient.
Our full manifesto can be read at heritageparty.org/manifesto