Can pro-lifers support Red Nose Day? Posted by Alithea Williams on 22 March 2017   A few months ago, I wrote a blog post on charitable giving, and another on giving to Children in Need specifically. This Friday is Red Nose Day, the BBC's biannual fundraising extravaganza for Comic Relief. Red Nos...

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A few months ago, I wrote a blog post on charitable giving, and another on giving to Children in Need specifically. This Friday is Red Nose Day, the BBC's biannual fundraising extravaganza for Comic Relief. Red Nose Day is something of a national institution - it will be all over the television, the...

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Lily Beddall in front of her Matalan advert.     On World Down's Syndrome Day, Alithea Williams reflects on a year that has seen great strides in recognising people with Down's syndrome as full and valued members of society - but has also seen the rise of lethal discrimination against their communit...

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World Down's Syndrome Day - highlighting a year of contradictions Posted by Alithea Williams on 21 March 2017 ?Lily Beddall in front of her Matalan advert.     On World Down's Syndrome Day, Alithea Williams reflects on a year that has seen great strides in recognising people with Down's syndrome ...

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Regulators placed a warning on the drug in 1975. Image: Sky News  A drug that was marketed as a pregnancy test in the 1960s and 70s may have caused abortions and fetal defects, according to an investigation by Sky News.Primodos: The Secret Drug Scandal is airing on Sky Atlantic tonight, and is inves...

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Prof Savage said that sex-selective abortion is "another myth propagated by the anti-abortion lobby". Image: Eyevine An influential member of the British Medical Association's medical ethics committee has said that women should be able to have abortions at any stage of pregnancy, and for any reason,...

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Interference in the germ-line could affect countless future generations. Image: Rex features A Newcastle fertility clinic has been given a licence by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to carry out the controversial "three-parent baby" technique.Read the SPUC blog - Three parent...

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?27 doctors have already asked to be removed from the list of those willing to participate in euthanasia, since it was legalised in Canada last June. Image: Martin Barraud Doctors in Canada have been asking to be removed from the list of those willing to participate in "medical aid in dying", report...

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The upset students in front of the chaplaincy window displaying the poster. Image: KENNY ELRICK, Aberdeen Press and Journal Students at Aberdeen University have expressed outrage that a 40 Days for Life poster is being displayed - at the Catholic Chaplaincy.A number of students have signed an open l...

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Maria Caulfield is a nurse and the MP for Lewes.   Maria Caulfield, the Conservative MP for Lewes, made a strong speech defending unborn children and vulnerable mothers during a debate in Parliament that sought to completely decriminalise abortion. Scroll down to watch the speech! Yesterday, Diana J...

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Gavin and his seven children A TV advert produced by an Australian pro-life group has been censured by regulators for "concealing its political nature".The advert features a tradesman talking about his fears when his wife told him she was pregnant four weeks after their wedding and ends with his sev...

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Pro-life advocates Rebecca Kiessling and Dr Tony Levatino, both of whom have spoken at SPUC conferences, spoke in front of the Citizen's Assembly in Ireland last weekend.The Citizens' Assembly is currently meeting to discuss whether a referendum should be held on repealing the Eighth Amendment, a cl...

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The petition is a joint initiative between Life and SPUC, two of the country's most prominent pro-life groups. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and Life have formed a united front to have Marie Stopes stripped of its abortion licence in light of recent scandals and in the wake of a ...

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‘Strip abortion provider of its licence’, pro-life groups demand following scandalous revelations   Two of the country’s most prominent pro-life groups have formed a united front to have Marie Stopes stripped of its abortion licence in light of recent scandals and in the wake of a probe which ha...

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Abortion doctor speaks at pro-life conference and tells why he turned his back on life as a "paid assassin" after performing 1200 procedures   One of the world's most prominent abortion surgeons has flown to the UK to address a major pro-life conference this weekend.US based Dr Anthony Levatino,...

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In response to breaking news that scientists have grown an artificial early mouse embryo without using egg or sperm, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) says any attempt to replicate this work to create artificial human embryos would be a deeply unethical manipulation of human l...

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Abortion doctor speaks at pro-life conference and tells why he turned his back on life as a "paid assassin" after performing 1200 procedures  descriptionI want to share some exciting news.In our effort to deliver you the most innovative and comprehensive set of cloud-based software and services,...

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"She Decides"? Not African women "What is actually most disheartening is that these western countries have not even thought of asking the Africans what they want" More than 50 countries met today in Brussels to discuss funding abortion in developing countries, after the reinstatement of the Mexi...

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?The research found that only 34 per cent of the women felt they had been given accurate information to make informed decisions about medications and treatment. Image: Getty Charities have warned that pregnant women with extreme morning sickness are being refused help by NHS staff, leading some to h...

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"Relationships" education will be compulsory at primary school, meaning it will be taught to children as young as four. Parents should be making decisions about when their children learn about sex not the state, says SPUC Safe at School in response to today's announcement that the government intends...

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