SPUC is a key pro-life lobbying organisation at the UN in New York and Geneva

A United Nations (UN) committee on the Rights of the Child overstepped its mandate in its pro-abortion attack on the Catholic Church, said lobbyists for the SPUC at the UN.

SPUC was responding to a report published by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which attacked the Catholic Church's teachings on abortion, contraception and homosexuality, under the guise of a critique of the Church's handling of child sex abuse cases.

SPUC is recognised officially by the UN at a non-governmental organisation (NGO), and provides most of the pro-life lobbying efforts at the UN institutions in New York and Geneva. [SPUC, 5 February]

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• Canadian man fighting for unborn son inside ‘brain dead’ wife receives global outpouring of support [LifeSiteNews.com, 5 February]
• A catalogue of reasons why Margo Macdonald’s Assisted Suicide Bill should be rejected [Peter Saunders, 3 February]
• Canadian court rules fluids and food are basic personal care [Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, 3 February]
• Motor neurone disease patient says society encouraging disabled to commit suicide [LifeSiteNews.com, 31 January]
• Pakistan plans to curb population growth [Bloomberg, 6 February]
• Catholic Church spokesman in Papua New Guinea welcomes population growth [LifeSiteNews.com, 4 February]
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• Landmark appeal involving surrogacy birth starts in Ireland [Irish Examiner, 3 February]
• Places still available at the UK's premier pro-life youth event [John Smeaton, 3 February]
• Drinking alcohol during pregnancy could be ruled a crime [Telegraph, 2 February]
• Judge orders mentally ill woman to have forced caesarean [Telegraph, 1 February]