Act no

25 November 2009

Dear supporter,

The government has introduced a bill which would make sex education compulsory in all state schools, including faith schools, from ages 5-16. This is part of the government's anti-life sexual health agenda. The approach to sex and relationships education (SRE) in the Children, Schools and Families bill has been framed by anti-life, anti-family groups. The government not only wants universal sex education, but also wants to use all state secondary schools, including Catholic ones, as centres for promoting access to contraception and abortion services. Not since the Abortion Act 1967 has there been such a determined effort to promote universal access to abortion.

Please act now to challenge the government's pro-abortion sexual health agenda in schools. Please:

• read our new flyer http://is.gd/53whT order a supply and distribute in your area
• ask local clergy to include our notice http://is.gd/53wnl in their next weekly bulletins and announcements, and work with them to distribute the flyer
• read our critique Sexual Health in Schools 2009 http://is.gd/4NPtO which explains the government's pro-abortion sexual health agenda in schools
• write to Gordon Brown, the prime minister, opposing compulsory sex education. Send a copy of your message to your own MP. You can write to them at: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA or email them via http://www.spuc.org.uk/mps
• write to your local schools. Urge them to oppose the plans to make sex education compulsory. Also ask schools to write to Ed Balls MP (secretary of state for children, schools and families), to the prime minister and to the local MP.

Yours sincerely in defence of life,

Paul Tully
General secretary