A quote from LifeSite, 28 January 2008

The idea for a worldwide moratorium on abortion originated with Giuliano Ferrara, a non-Christian journalist and former head of the Italian Communist Party in Turin. […] Responding to a recent decision by the United Nations to call for a moratorium on the death penalty, Ferrara urged that the moratorium be extended to a moratorium on the unjust killing of unborn children. […]

Ferrara is joined by Lenin Raghavarshi, an Indian atheist and winner of the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights.  Raghavarshi told Asia News, "It is ridiculous and absurd to suggest that abortion is a solution to hunger, in order to control population growth.  What's more the concept – typical of UN organisations – that overpopulation represents the greatest danger to the health of a nation has no basis at all in reality […]."

Perhaps the most prominent intellectual to have added his voice to Ferrara's call for an international moratorium on abortions is the British philosopher Roger Scruton, whom the New Yorker magazine once called "the most influential philosopher in the world".  According to the Italian Catholic news agency Chiesa, he immediately endorsed the campaign after its announcement.

Ferrara […] would also like to see "five million pilgrims of life and love, all in Rome next summer" to request that the United Nation's "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" be amended to include "the right to be born,"
 
 
A quote from The Daily Mail, 26 January 2008

Four months into her pregnancy, [33-year-old] Lorraine Allard was devastated to learn she was in the advanced stages of cancer. Doctors advised her to have an abortion and start chemotherapy straight away. Instead, with steadfast courage, she insisted on waiting long enough to give her unborn son a chance to survive, telling her husband Martyn: "If I am going to die, my baby is going to live."

A caesarean delivery was scheduled at 26 weeks, but Mrs Allard went into premature labour a week before and Liam was born on November 18. She then started chemotherapy, but died on January 18 – having left her bed a handful of times to cuddle her son beside his incubator.