She was 'canceled' when she stood for life, but believes 'courage is contagious'

In an era where speaking the truth about the dignity of human life can hurt one's career, Delphine Chui’s story is an example of a wider religious and socio-cultural awakening taking place among Britain’s younger generations. 

Key Takeaways:

• Pro-life activist Delphine Chui was originally ambivalent about abortion, opposing it personally but not for others.

• After educating herself on the truth about abortion, she became pro-life — and a social media post revealing her convictions caused her to lose her employment.

• She eventually found pro-life community and began to use her journalistic skills in the pro-life movement.

• Chui is seeing that many young people in the UK are beginning to engage in more discussions regarding deeper issues like human dignity, as the UK begins to crack down on free speech.

• Chui encourages pro-lifers not to operate in fear, and to take a stand, because they are not alone, and "Your stand may give someone else the strength to keep going.”

The Details:

Chui's path into the pro-life movement did not start with passionate pro-life activism, but with a type of homecoming: a return to her Catholic faith and the truths about the sanctity of human life. 

“I had a very casual position,” Chui told Live Action News of her earlier years, which amounted to: “I wouldn’t have an abortion personally, but I don’t judge.” 

At that time, Chui was working as a journalist for a women’s magazine, submerged in a milieu where tenets of the sexual revolution, such as contraception, premarital sex, and abortion pills were taken at face value. It was only in retrospect that she realized how deeply those ideologies influenced her thinking. 

After she began to educate herself on Catholicism and what abortion truly involved — the physical reality, the suffering entailed, and its moral consequences — her perspective changed dramatically. “If we measure a society by how it treats its most vulnerable,” she said, “there’s no one more vulnerable than the unborn child.”

For Chui, the pro-life cause is not political. It is, at its crux, about the dignity of human life.

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Zoom In:

Chui's public witness was not a choice at first. Unexpected circumstances pushed her into the public spotlight to bear witness to her pro-life convictions. 

Following a decision to publish a private Instagram photo from a pro-life event, Chui was left reeling when her pro-abortion employer fired her, and she lost friendships and work connections from the wider media industry. 

“That was the moment I saw how fragile our freedom of conscience really is,” Chui told Live Action News.

Silence, she realized, was no longer an option.

What ensued was providential. Chui joined Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International, an organization focused on protecting fundamental freedoms, including the right to life. There, her past experience as a journalist found a renewed sense of direction.

At ADF International, Chui created content that emphasized and elevated the experiences of individuals dealing with discrimination or persecution owing to their religious beliefs, broadening her insights into these challenges.

“Storytelling is incredibly powerful, and my journalism background allowed me to convey the human side of these legal battles effectively,” Chui said about her time at ADF International. 

One story that Chui worked on was that of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a dedicated pro-life volunteer persistently targeted by British authorities for praying silently near abortion clinics. Helping to bring visibility to cases like Vaughan-Spruce’s reaffirmed the significance of legal advocacy and cultural engagement for Chui. 

The Big Picture:

Chui’s academic background in anthropology played a part in impacting her approach to advocacy. 

Anthropology, Chui said, trained her to evaluate how societies treat the marginalized, whereas journalism taught her to listen and communicate clearly. Nevertheless, Chui was frank about the downsides of her university education as well. 

“My university was very liberal, and studying anthropology was one of the first ways I became desensitised to ideas such as ‘socially-constructed genders’. I’ve since been unlearning those perspectives and striving to see the world through a Christian anthropology,” she said.

Chui's convictions about the dignity of every human life are not only intellectual, but immensely personal.

She says that in 2020 at the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Paris, she experienced a spiritual and physical healing. That encounter marked the beginning of a deeper relationship with God — one that would sustain her throughout the difficulties of “cancel culture” that lay ahead. 

“I’ve checked social media with shaking hands,” Chui said. The criticism can be especially painful when it comes from people whom she once thought were friends. Still, she said: “I can’t control what others think of me, but I can control whether I live in fear or in truth.”

Many people in Britain are hesitant to speak openly, causing prevalent self-censorship, Chui pointed out. In spite of that, Chui noticed a quiet openness, especially among the young, to truth and genuine discussions. 

She told Live Action News:

“Young people are questioning the narratives they’ve been fed. Polls show that a significant portion of students fear speaking their minds, but that also means there’s an openness for real dialogue.

I think the pro-life movement is becoming less about loud slogans and more about courageous individuals building communities and having those one-to-one conversations that change hearts."

The Way to Win:

Community-building, she believes, is where the future of the pro-life movement lies — not in slogans, but in authentic relationships. One-to-one conversations, lived witness, and supportive communities are becoming more and more crucial. 

In fact, Chui said that “community” was something she lacked. When she first faced outrage from her employers and co-workers for her pro-life convictions, she had no network of like-minded friends or mentors. She recounted:

“When I lost my work in journalism, I had no support system — no friends who shared pro-life views, no church community, and no one to discuss politics with in a way that welcomed questions or debate. That lack of support led me to quietly bow out rather than challenge the discrimination; in effect, I consented to my own cancellation because I didn’t realise I had any other options. I now know that was a mistake.

Today, I intentionally build community with people who share my convictions and who I can stand with and learn from — whether that’s Catholic friends, work mentors I admire, or even ‘influencers’ I’ve never met but who truly understand the cost of this work and inspire us."

Chui credited her perseverance in the pro-life cause to her Catholic faith. “My worth isn’t in my career or what others think of me,” she says. “It’s in being a daughter of God.” 

Even in moments of loss and rejection, Chui has realized God’s hand at work — refining, redirecting, and urging her to something deeper.

To those who castigate pro-life women as “anti-women,” Chui has a straightforward but compassionate answer. 

“Nothing is more pro-woman than telling her the truth and supporting her through every stage of life.” Authentic empowerment, she said, must include both mother and child, because “there are two bodies involved.”

Her message to other pro-lifers who feel isolated and fatigued due to the larger pro-abortion “cancel culture” at large is that they are not alone.

“Courage is contagious,” she said. “Your stand may give someone else the strength to keep going.”

The Bottom Line:

In a pro-abortion culture that often calls for conformity and silence, Chui’s witness is a reminder that the defense of life embodies resilience and quiet fidelity — one person and one act of courage to speak out for the vulnerable.