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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News, A Guernsey politician has called for a referendum on euthanasia after Guernsey's Policy Committee decided not to change the law, which bans euthanasia in the island. Lyndon Trott admitted however that the vote might not be legally binding. [BBC, 21 September] A couple in China have been fine...

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News, The British government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill continues to advance, passing its latest House of Commons stage this week. There were attempts to reduce the time-limit for abortion on the non-disabled from 24 weeks to 12, 16, 20 and 22 weeks; all failed. Dr John Pugh, Libera...

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News, A bill that would have required a teenager's parents to be notified before she was given an abortion or contraceptive advice has been defeated in the House of Commons by 159 votes to 87. Such laws in the US have been shown to halve the number of teenage abortions. Mrs Angela Watkinson, the b...

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News, President Bush has been due to sign a bill into law which would increase the availability of umbilical cord blood cells in the US. Cells from the umbilical cord offer an ethical source of stem cells as an alternative to human IVF embryos, and research involving them has already proved fruitf...

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News, Lobby to keep anti-life sex ed out of this parliament and the next SPUC is calling upon its supporters to continue to lobby parliament against the government's sex education plans. The Children, Schools and Families bill is before the House of Lords, awaiting committee. SPUC warns that what...

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News, Pope Benedict spoke of the dignity and rights of "the most defenseless of all human beings, the unborn child in the mother's womb" at Mass in Yankee Stadium, New York, NY, on Sunday. Faith was not separate from political life, he said, as he encouraged pro-life work. [Spero News, 20th April ]...

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News, A survey of General Practitioners is being used by pro-euthanasia campaigners to call for physician assisted suicide to be legalised in Britain. A report in Pulse magazine states that 42% of the 309 doctors who took part in the survey said they would be prepared to help a terminally ill pati...

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News, A UK peer spoke out strongly against the dangers of Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill at a public debate at the Middle Temple Inn of Court, London. Lord Brennan called the bill "wrong in principle, unworkable in practice and a serious danger to the common good of our so...

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23 Sep West Mercia police have sent a file to the Crown Prosecution Service following their investigation of a late abortion involving a baby with cleft lip and palate. Joanna Jepson won her judicial review of the case earlier in the year after police refused to prosecute the doctors involved. The ...

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News, AbortionThe European Parliament has voted against pro-life amendments to stop EU money being spent on coercive and sex-selective abortions. The amendments were partly motivated by opposition to China's one-child policy, which involves compulsory abortions, and to the abortions of unborn girl...

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News, The House of Lords on Monday debated the UK's government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill during the second day of its report stage. [Official Report, 21 January] John Smeaton, SPUC's national director, wrote: "Those moving more ethically-conscious amendments don't have the force of...

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