The SPUC Scotland team are set to climb the Conic Hill over Loch Lomond as part of a fundraising effort to stop DIY home abortions. Eden Linton, SPUC Scotland team member said: “This is the first ever fundraising event undertaken by the whole team here at SPUC Scotland. DIY home abortions are taking lives and hurting women across the UK. It is vital that we raise awareness of this tragedy.”

Following on from my blog earlier this week by journalist Olivia Buxton, who is “risking a pregnancy at 48 after losing twins with Down’s syndrome”, there’s more to say about this tale of our times.

Advertisement boards displayed in Canada are telling parents that “the most loving gift you can give to your first child is not to have another” and promoting abortion and sterilization.

Two Scottish universities have failed their students by not protecting their rights to free speech. The University of Edinburgh and Stirling University have been shamed in a damning new report, launched today. The document, called Free2Speak, marked every Scottish university based on their policies towards pro-life students, societies, and outside speakers, as well as the lived experiences of students.

The Northern Ireland Department of Health has warned that women “are at risk” from DIY home abortion in response to anti-life group Alliance for Choice launching an online “self-managed abortion” course on the International Day of Safe Abortion.

A bill which aimed to jail pro-life citizens for six months for demonstrating outside abortion clinics has been blocked in the House of Commons. However, the threat from buffer zones has not gone, says SPUC’s Alithea Williams.

An estimated 3,000 people gathered in at the German March for Life in Berlin to promote the value of human life and call for an end to abortion. Michael Robinson, SPUC Director of Communications said: “We commend the people of Berlin for their unity and determination to protect unborn lives. Only when we unite and change hearts and minds up and down the country will we be able to build a culture of life.”

A woman who had an abortion after being sexually assaulted has spoken out in support of pro-life vigils and has condemned attempts to introduce buffer zones. The brave woman has spoken out ahead of the Second Reading of a bill which is seeking to ban pro-life vigils outside abortion clinics.

President Trump announced yesterday that he will sign a “born alive” Executive Order, defending the right to life of babies who survive abortion. SPUC’s Daniel Frampton said: “Once again, President Trump enhances his record as America’s most pro-life president ever, as well as offering pro-life Americans a genuine choice at the upcoming November election. SPUC hopes and prays that the USA chooses life.”

SPUC has commented after the publication of Labour MP Rupa Huq’s Bill to “restrict demonstrations in the vicinity of abortion clinics; and for connected purposes”, which proposes jailing pro-life people for six months if they express any opinion on abortion within 150 metres of an abortion clinic.

SPUC has warned of the “human price tag” that comes with IVF, following the publication of a report revealing that around 5% of babies born in Australia are born by “unethical” IVF techniques.

President Trump is facing another pro-life opportunity with the death of pro-abortion U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If the President appoints a pro-life successor to Ginsburg, pro-lifers in America believe that the odds that Roe vs. Wade, the nationwide right to abortion, will be repealed.

“Saving the right to save lives is vital” says SPUC, in the week that pro-life vigils come under threat in Parliament from pro-abortion MP, Rupa Huq. As vigils organised by the 40 Days for Life movement begin, Rupa Huq’s bill to introduce buffer zones around abortion clinics comes up for Second Reading in the House of Commons.