News, 22 February 2010 Dear supporter,   Tomorrow (Tue 23 Feb.) is the the final main day (report stage and third reading) in the House of Commons on the government's sex education bill. (The bill has yet to be debated in the House of Lords.) The Conservative opposition has tabled a new amendment...

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News, 24 February 2011 Dear supporter, We need: you to take action to stop primary schools showing sexually explicit materials to children as young as seven years old your involvement so that sex education is not made a compulsory school subject your support to reverse government policies which pr...

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Urge C Dear supporter, Cherie Blair has been invited to speak this Friday in Rome at the Angelicum, one of the world's leading Catholic universities, on the subject of women and human rights. Like her husband, Mrs Blair has a long track-record of promoting anti-life and anti-family causes. Mrs Blai...

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News, 3 March 2011 Dear supporter, Anne Milton MP, the minister for public health, has been speaking today at a conference organised by Brook, one of Britain's leading abortion referral organisations. Brook specialises in advising young people - including those under 16 - about abortion, sex, STIs...

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News, 5 March 2010 Dear supporter, The Children, Schools and Families bill received its third reading in the House of Commons on 23 February (see our alert of 22 February http://is.gd/8W94s ) and will have its second reading (first debate) in the House of Lords on Monday next, 8 March. It is then ...

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News, 11 March 2010 Dear supporter, On Monday 8 March the Children, Schools and Families bill was debated in the House of Lords at second reading. As per parliamentary convention, no vote was taken on the bill and the bill now awaits debate in committee. The imminent general election - almost cert...

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URGENT Please telephone and/or email your MP and urge him/her to oppose a pro-suicide amendment tabled yesterday by Patricia Hewitt (former health minister) to the Coroners & Justice Bill. The amendment (which is a new clause in the bill) will be debated on Monday afternoon (23 March) if selected ...

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Vote t Dear supporter,Tomorrow (31 March) a committee of the European Parliament will vote on the issue of experiments using animals. The Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) committee will consider a draft directive which has the potential to force European Union (EU) member-states to use huma...

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News, 8 April 2015 Dear supporter, SPUC's online resource for May's General Election is now live. Please go to https://www.spuc.org.uk/campaigns/general_election_2015/constituencies/ and select your constituency. The page for your constituency will contain: the voting record of the sitting MP (if ...

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Help s April 2008 Click here for SPUC briefing: Abortion law and the Council of Europe Response to draft report on abortion by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men, Southern Cross Bioethics Institute, South Australia, April 2008 Th...

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News, 21 April 2015 SPUC is seeking a new honorary treasurer with a deep commitment to the pro-life cause. Bob Edwards, the current incumbent, wishes to retire from this particular role after many years’ devoted service. The honorary treasurer plays a key part in the work of the Society and serves...

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Radio 6 May - Mrs Dominica Roberts of the ProLife Alliance will, on present plan, take part in a broadcast debate tomorrow (Thursday 7 May) with Dr Philip Nitschke, the Australian advocate of assisted suicide and euthanasia. The programme is Breakfast on Radio 5 Live which, as well as being broadc...

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News, 17 May 2013 Dear supporter, As MPs prepare to debate and vote on the report stage and third reading of the government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill on Monday (20 May) and Tuesday (21 May), please make a point of emailing or phoning your MP to ask him/her to oppose the Bill, especially ...

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News, 21 May 2010 Dear supporter, Channel 4 will be broadcasting an advertisement by Marie Stopes International, the abortion promoter and provider, on Monday evening at 10.10pm. Please act immediately to help stop the ad, by: contacting Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, the Secretary of State for Culture, M...

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News, 23 May 2013 Dear supporter, On Tuesday (21 May) Parliament again voted on the government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. The vote was 366 to 161. Although saddening and damaging to the reputation of Parliament, this result was no surprise as the bill has the support of all three main par...

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News, Wednesday 23 May 2012 Dear supporter, We have been informed this afternoon (Wednesday 23 May) by our colleagues at European Dignity Watch of a vote tomorrow (Thursday 24 May) between 12pm and 2pm (continental time) to approve a pro-homosexual/anti-family resolution entitled "Fight against h...

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News, 28 May 2010 Dear supporter,The new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government has launched a new education bill, aimed at reforming the school system. One of the stated aims of the bill is to give individual schools more control over the curriculum. We hope this means the previous go...

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News, 31 May 2012 Dear supporter, The General Medical Council (GMC) has issued new draft guidance for doctors on "Personal beliefs and medical practice". The draft deals with the important issue of conscientious objection, and it seeks to control how doctors deal with requests for treatments which...

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Lord F Dear supporter,Last weekend Lord Falconer, the former Attorney General, announced that he would be tabling an amendment to make it easier to assist suicide overseas. This amendment has now been published, and it poses a very serious threat. It is urgent that people contact members of the Ho...

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