Amnesty International adopts new broad pro-abortion policy to ""respect human rights"" nbsp;The human rights organisation that tramples on the rights of the unborn. Abortion is a human rights issue they say...because everyone has the right to life Amnesty International has changed its abortion po...

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Bernadette Smyth of Precious Life and Niamh Uí Bhriain of the Life Institute No abortion in Northern Ireland on our watch, say pro-life leaders  Thousands of pro-lifers marched on Stormont on Saturday for the annual All-Ireland Rally for Life. This year's Rally was held in the grounds of Parliament ...

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Setting off from PrestonPreston to Walsingham 26 – 28 June 2018 Day 1I set off from the new SPUC Northern Office in Preston in perfect cycling weather. This was the beginning of a challenge that I had thought about many times. Now I had a reason to rise to that challenge; the plight of unborn babies...

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Professor Hubert Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Wales Professor Sir John Dewhurst, former President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Professor Peter Gray, Emeritus Professor of Child Health, College of Medicine, University of Wales Dr Mic...

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SPUC's Evangelical division was established in order to spread the pro-life message specifically to Evangelical Christians, and to support Evangelical pro-lifers to be active in opposing abortion through their churches and communities.While SPUC is a non-religious organisation, we also recognise tha...

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SPUC's Muslim division was established in order to spread the pro-life message specifically to Muslims, and to support Muslim pro-lifers to be active in opposing abortion through their mosques and communities.While SPUC is a non-religious organisation, we also recognise that it is important for indi...

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PGD is a technique used to test embryos created in the laboratory for genetic disabilities or sex-related disabilities such as haemophilia, which only affects boys.A court case in April 2003 allowed PGD to be used for the first time to test for a genetic disability and at the same time select an emb...

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In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is used to help couples that cannot conceive naturally. A number of eggs are fertilised by sperm in a petri-dish and one or two of the newly created embryos are then transferred to the womb in the hope that they will implant.IVF births account for about 1% of the total n...

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Cloning allows scientists to create a genetic copy of another human individual. The clone is not an exact copy, in spite of sharing DNA with the person from whom he/she was cloned.There are two types of cloning: so-called therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. Both types of cloning are reprod...

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Stem cells are the body’s universal cells; which have the potential to develop into more specialised cells or body tissue.Stem cells are found in the placenta and umbilical cord of a newborn baby and in children’s milk teeth. They are also found in sites within the adult body - such as fat, bone mar...

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Disabled people are fatally discriminated against by the law on abortion in the UK, which allows for abortion of disabled babies right up to birth. There are obvious eugenic aspects of abortion for foetal anomaly and selective feticide in multiple pregnancy.There is often subtle or not-so-subtle pre...

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In their book Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn warn: "More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade th...

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amnion the fluid-filled membrane enclosing the baby in the womb. ante-natal before birth. blastocyst (Greek, "sprout pouch') the hollow, fluid-filled ball of cells which is the developing embryo at one week after fertilisation. cervix neck of the womb. chorion the outer cap...

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J.M. Beazley, "Assessment of life in utero", Nursing Times, 8 May 1980. Jérôme Lejeune, quoted in Professor Jérôme Lejeune and Professor Sir Albert William Liley, The Tiniest Humans, editor Robert Sassone, 1977. Library of Congress No. 77-7681 1, p.69. The Tiniest Humans is composed from transcript...

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In Britain embryo experimentation involves research carried out on human embryos up to 14 days after conception. The law in Britain requires that all embryos used in research be destroyed. The embryos come from left-over embryos created in the laboratory for fertility treatment, or embryos specially...

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Abortion is not only wrong because it takes the life of an innocent human being, but also because of the way it fosters a culture of discrimination and intolerance.The law allows children with disabilities to be aborted all the way up to birth - babies with down syndrome, cleft palate, club foot or ...

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Motherhood Campaign: IntroductionMaternal Mortality is an international disgrace.In developing countries, tens of thousands of women die as a result of childbirth every year. This figure may be in the hundreds of thousands - statistics from developing countries are often highly inaccurate and are fr...

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Population Control Promotion 'Arrogant' and 'Racist'A motion calling on Irish Aid to address population growth through family planning education for women in the countries it supports fell amid claims that it was "arrogant" and "racist".Dr Mark Murphy, incoming chair of the IMO NCHD committee sparke...

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CANCELLED Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled due to security concerns following the terrorist attacks in Paris.If you have any further questions, please contact Rhoslyn Thomas:Phone: 020 7820 3140Email: rhoslynthomas@spuc.org.uk

The face and hands of an unborn child at five months (when abortion is still legal)  Every human being starts developing well before birth, at the moment of conception. Unborn children develop and grow at a remarkable speed.  Advances in technology over the last 50 years mean that we now know radica...

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