News, 7 October 2010 Dear supporter,SPUC is taking up the fight against TV condom adverts targeted at children, to protect all children and promote a culture of life.Your children or grandchildren are being targeted. These are the dangers they face: Showing condom advertisements at times when most...

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News, 16 October 2013 Dear supporter, The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) www.spuc.org.uk is calling on all pro-lifers to contact their MEPs, asking them to vote against a forthcoming report to be debated and voted on in a European Parliament plenary session, either between 18...

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News, The president of Seoul National University, where Hwang Woo-suk, the disgraced stem cell scientist, was professor, has apologised for the fraud that took place at his school. Chung Un-chan said: "Hwang's research team did something scientists should never do. This incident left a mark that c...

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News, Dear Supporter, The UK Department for International Development is promoting abortion in a new public consultation – please respond urgently, whether you're in the UK or abroad. The deadline for consultation responses is 20 October.Please go to this page:  http://consultation.dfid.gov.uk/mat...

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Urge M ***UPDATE*** 23 October 2009: The amendments both failed to pass. There were 310 votes against and 290 in favour of the amendment on coercive abortion. Although there were 304 votes in favour and 300 votes against the amendment on sex-selective abortion, that amendment failed because the rul...

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Renewe 20 October 2009Dear supporter,Following the defeat in the summer of Lord Falconer's attempt to widen the law on assisted suicide, Lord Alderdice has re-tabled his amendment to the Coroners and Justice bill. The amendment (see full text below) would allow assisted suicide. He had tabled the a...

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News, 22 October 2013 Dear supporter, In a pro-life victory, the European Parliament voted today to send the pro-abortion Estrela report back to committee. Anti-family lobbyists are complaining about "intense lobbying" by pro-life/pro-family groups, so well done to all those SPUC supporters who lo...

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News, 26 October 2010 Dear supporter, SPUC has just received news of a vigil to be held outside Parliament tomorrow (Wednesday 27 October) marking the 43rd anniversary of the passing of the Abortion Act 1967. The vigil is being organised by the Choose Life campaign http://www.chooselifecampaign.or...

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News, 27 October 2010 Dear supporter, PUC has a popular range of Christmas cards, Christmas gifts and other merchandise for sale online in our webshop http://www.spuc.org.uk/shop/list_products?category=23 Order early to avoid disappointment (for Christmas delivery order by 30 November): 30 quality...

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Lobby 27 October 2009Dear supporter,On 29 September http://is.gd/4Eo0x we asked you to lobby the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which was due to debate a radical pro-abortion report http://is.gd/3MQxB authored by Christine McCafferty, the veteran anti-life British MP. The ...

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News, 10 November 2014 You decide… At the moment of conception, a baby’s sex and eye-colour, and all he or she inherits from past generations, is decided. At 3 weeks, the baby's heart starts to beat. At 6 weeks, the fingers and toes start to appear and brainwaves can be picked up. At 8 weeks, live...

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News, 19 November 2013 Dear supporter, This Wednesday the Scottish Parliament will debate and vote upon the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill, which would allow same-sex marriage in Scotland. The debate and vote will be on the principle of the bill - the equivalent of a Second Readin...

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News, 20 November 2010 Dear supporter, Last week a committee of the Scottish Parliament recommended that the parliament reject Margo Macdonald's bill to allow assisted suicide. The Scottish Catholic Media Office (SCMO) says that the committee's report http://bit.ly/95JFPE "comes down firmly on the...

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News, 23 November 2012 Dear supporter, Thank you so much if you replied to my message of 30 August 2012, giving your consent to receive online marketing messages which help us to fund important pro-life campaigns. If you have not yet given your consent, please consider doing so. Unlike commercial ...

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News, 25 November 2013 Dear supporter, Today and tomorrow morning, members of the European Parliament's Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee (otherwise known as FEMM) will attempt to resurrect the Estrela report, a radical anti-life and anti-family report sent back to the FEMM committee b...

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News, 25 November 2011 Dear supporter, On Thursday 1 December, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will vote on a motion "On the EU response to HIV/AIDS in the EU and neighbouring countries" which links abortion, contraception and HIV/AIDS. The motion is riddled with anti-life and anti-famil...

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Act no 25 November 2009Dear 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) ...

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News, 30 November 2012 Dear supporter, An important consultation, by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), will close next Friday (7 December) on the genetic manipulation of embryos with mitochondrial defects. Researchers want to create human embryos in the laboratory that have ...

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News, The second reading debate in the House of Lords on the UK government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill got under way on Monday. The debate was adjourned after Catholic Labour peer Lord Brennan collapsed in the chamber shortly after making a speech. Many peers expressed concern at the...

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News, An attempt to enshrine abortion as a human right was rejected by many nations at the adoption of the Disability Convention by the United Nations General Assembly. Peter C Smith, chief administrative officer at the United Nations for SPUC and the International Right To Life Federation (IRTLF)...

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