SPUC has described as "macabre and unethical" a so-called 'three-parent' embryo technique which is due to receive £5.8 million of funding.SPUC was responding to the announcement by the Wellcome Trust that embryo research into mitochondrial disease will start at its new centre at Newcastle University...

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The two bodies which draft the advertising code of practice have made changes to allow "commercial post-conception advice services" - in reality, abortion clinics which earn income from performing abortions - to advertise on television and radio, in print and elsewhere.Anthony Ozimic, SPUC's communi...

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A claim published in the Lancet medical journal that so-called 'unsafe' - usually illegal - abortions worldwide have risen by 5% is "dubious", says SPUC.The claim was made in a report by researchers from the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organsation (WHO).John Smeaton, SPUC director, com...

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A new US study is being used to claim that abortion is 14 times safer than giving birth.The researchers drew on data from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. Anthony Ozimic of SPUC told the Huffington Post: "Whatever the merits or otherwise of this study and its authors' conclusions, the fact rem...

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News, Top stories: Act now to get government to block advertising by commercial abortion centres The two bodies which draft the advertising code of practice have made changes to allow "commercial post-conception advice services" - in reality, abortion clinics which earn income from performing ab...

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Advertising 'watchdog' acting as abortion industry's poodle, says leading pro life group SPUC Advertising 'watchdog' acting as abortion industry's poodle, says leading pro-life group SPUC London, : Britain's advertising 'watchdog' is acting as the abortion industry's poodle, said the Society for...

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Claim of rise in illegal abortions globally is dubious, says leading pro life group SPUC Claim of rise in illegal abortions globally is dubious, says leading pro-life group SPUC London, : A claim published today in The Lancet that so-called 'unsafe' - usually illegal - abortions worldwide have r...

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'Three parent' embryo technique unethical and macabre says leading pro life group SPUC 'Three-parent' embryo technique "unethical and macabre" says leading pro-life group SPUC London, : A leading pro-life group has described as "macabre and unethical" a so-called 'three-parent' embryo technique ...

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News, Top stories: Book now for 5th International Youth Pro-Life Conference, 2 - 4 March Every year since 2008 SPUC has hosted the International Youth Pro-Life Conference. Around 150 delegates join us from colleges and universities from around the world. This year's the conference is on 2-4 Marc...

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Marie Stopes International, the international abortion provider, has been awarded a certificate of merit by Vietnam's Ministry of Health for its so-called family planning work. [MSI via Twitter, 16 January]Vietnam's government operates a coercive two-child population control policy [SPUC, 21 July 20]...

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Every year since 2008 SPUC has hosted the International Youth Pro-Life Conference.Around 150 delegates join us from colleges and universities from around the world. This year's the conference is on 2-4 March and the theme is 'Human Dignity'. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers who will address a...

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The Good Counsel Network (GCN) (website and blog) has celebrated its 15th anniversary.Clare and Stuart McCullough (blog) have, through their prayer, fasting, counselling, support and witness, saved countless lives from abortion and served countless women in need. SPUC is proud to support Good Counse...

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Hundreds of women forcibly sterilised under a now-defunct North Carolina eugenics programme are set to receive US$50,000 each in compensation.The state task-force which determined the sum said it was not seeking to place a value on people's lives. [Mail, 10 January] Such programmes were promoted by ...

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Anne Pryke, the health minister of the UK island of Jersey, says she will not support the legalisation of assisted suicide.The BBC reported that Mrs Pryke said that life was a privilege and should be protected. Her comments come after a widely-publicised report by a pro-suicide lobbying group. [BBC,]...

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45 years ago yesterday (11 January), the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) was established at a meeting in central London.The meeting was held at the Wig and Pen Club in the Strand. Alan Smith, who remains a member of SPUC's executive committee and on its national council, was ele...

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News, Top stories: Please pray for SPUC on our 45th anniversary 45 years ago yesterday (11 January), the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) was established at a meeting in central London. The meeting was held at the Wig and Pen Club in the Strand. Alan Smith, who remains a memb...

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News, Top stories: Assisted suicide report from Falconer's stacked commission is worthless says SPUC The report by Lord Falconer's self-styled commission on assisted suicide, funded by pro-death activists, amounts to a renewed attack on the legal status of disabled and elderly people. The commis...

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The report by Lord Falconer's self-styled commission on assisted suicide, funded by pro-death activists, amounts to a renewed attack on the legal status of disabled and elderly people.The commission has been widely discredited as stacked with supporters of assisted suicide. Paul Tully of SPUC Pro-Li...

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Assisted suicide report from Falconer's stacked commission is worthless says SPUC Assisted suicide report from Falconer's stacked commission is worthless says SPUC London, : Lord Falconer's report on assisted suicide is worthless, said anti-euthanasia group SPUC Pro-Life. SPUC Pro-Life has playe...

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Leading pro-life group launches campaign against gay marriage London, : A leading pro-life group has launched a campaign against the Westminster government's proposals for same-sex marriage. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) www.spuc.org.uk has today published a position pape...

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