General Election 2019 [For Northern Ireland instead, please click here.] General Election is an important time for the pro-life community to help influence Parliament to build a culture of life. SPUC's materials to help you defend human life in Value your vote leaflet You can see the leaflet h...

[Read the rest of this article...]

General Election 2019 (Northern Ireland) [For England, Scotland and Wales instead, please click here.] General Election is an important time for the pro-life community to help influence Parliament to build a culture of life. SPUC's materials for Northern Ireland to help you defend human life in the ...

[Read the rest of this article...]

SPUC at the United Nations There are several threats to the right to life at the highest international level We've sent lobbyists to the United Nations since 1994, when then Pope John Paul II issued a clarion call to all pro-life groups in the world to come and support the Holy See delegation in uph...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Every human being has the right to life - regardless of age, size, level of development or location The right to life is a universal moral principle that stands at the foundation of the concept of human rights. Historically, the right to life has been expressed in a variety of ways - such as the pri...

[Read the rest of this article...]

There are several different methods of abortion, but they all end in the death of an unborn child Abortion is the deliberate killing of an unborn child. There are approximately two hundred thousand reported abortions every year in the UK (206,880 in 2017).  In medical terms, the word abortion is use...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Looking at the situation today in the UK, many people might assume that abortion is legal on demand - at least up to 24 weeks from conception. By the letter of the law, however, abortion is only permitted under strict circumstances. Two registered medical practitioners must be "of the opinion, forme...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Abortion itself is not a religious issue, as you do not need to believe in God in order to believe in universal human rights. Nevertheless, many religions include different historical perspectives on the immorality of abortion, whether it can ever be permitted, and how believers should respond. Budd...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Pro-life feminists represent a growing number of women who believe passionately in women’s empowerment and in the need to build a just society in which men and women are treated as equals. Pro-life feminists also accept the scientific reality that the unborn child is a human life deserving of the sa...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Abortion and Women’s Health is a fully referenced review based on global research and lists a catalogue of physical and mental health problems linked to terminations. It was carried out by Dr Gregory Pike, a medical researcher and the Founding Director of the Adelaide Centre for Bioethics and Cultur...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Dilation and curettage (D&C) is used to treat various uterine conditions in non-pregnant women. However, as an abortion procedure it dismembers the unborn child. The mother's cervix (neck of the womb) has to be stretched open prior to the abortion. This can cause damage leading to the death or prema...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Suction abortion - in which the foetus is dismembered (torn apart) by a vacuum machine - is the most common early surgical technique. The cervix (the neck of the womb) must be stretched open to allow the surgeon to insert a plastic tube into the womb. Sharp-edged openings near the tip of the tube he...

[Read the rest of this article...]

This abortion procedure (although comparatively rare) is essentially the same as a caesarian section birth: the mother's abdomen is cut open and the child - typically still alive - is removed from the womb. In Britain, although there has always been a legal duty of care towards a liveborn baby who s...

[Read the rest of this article...]

A concentrated salt solution is injected into the amniotic fluid,killing the baby by acute salt poisoning. This technique is used after 16 weeks. It is no longer common in many Western countries because of its dangers to the mother, but pro-abortionists have exported this cheap technique for abortio...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Mifepristone (a.k.a. RU486, abortion pill) Mifepristone is an anti-progesterone, sometimes referred to as RU486. The drug was developed by Roussel-Uclaf, the French pharmaceutical company, hence the letters RU in RU486. The drug was synthesised in April 1980 and was first licensed for use in France ...

[Read the rest of this article...]

An alternative, more expensive, late abortion drug is prostaglandin. It is not free of dangers to the mother, being associated with risks of haemorrhage, infection and retention of the placenta requiring surgical intervention. Prostaglandin causes powerful contractions of the womb expelling the fetu...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Various birth control (contraception) methods can cause abortion. In many cases, people tempted to use a particular birth control method do not wish to do anything that would endanger their embryos. Nonetheless, several artificial contraceptive methods also carry a risk of terminating a pregnancy th...

[Read the rest of this article...]

br />The results of abortion can be gruesome to see, but they also show us what abortion really means Some people are moved to oppose the brutality of abortion actively only when they realise the violence inflicted upon the developing child. Many will find the images of babies who have been evidentl...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Abortion is regulated by the Abortion Act 1967, which permits a doctor to perform an abortion if two doctors agree that there are medical grounds for it. The Act has rules about the premises where abortions may be conducted and about certifying and registering abortions. In practice, the Department ...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Lord David Steel In 1938, a London gynaecologist, Aleck Bourne, tested the laws by performing an abortion on a 14-year-old girl who had been sexually assaulted by five off-duty British soldiers. Dr Bourne was a supporter of the Abortion Law Reform Association. He was charged with an illegal abortion...

[Read the rest of this article...]