The 2020 Chicago March for Life took place on January 11th and saw an astonishing attendance of 9000 people. The event occurred only days ahead of the US National March for Life, which will be attended this year by a delegation from SPUC. Addressing the Chicago event, Daniel Lipinski, an Illinois D...

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Belgian doctors will go on trial today for euthanising a woman who was suffering after a difficult relationship breakup. Antonia Tully, Director of SPUC’s Lives Worth Living Campaign said: "This is a pivotal moment when the disturbing euthanasia practices in Belgium will be held up to scrutiny." The...

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. Helen Larkin won £17,303 in an employment tribunal after she was sacked because of her pregnancy. Ms Larkin was eight-months pregnant when she received her two weeks’ notice of being made redundant from Liz Earle Beauty Company. She had worked for the company for five years. She applied for two...

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Pro-abortion campaigners appear alarmed at the recent rise of pro-life university groups across the United Kingdom. Student led group and SPUC collaborator, the Alliance of Pro-life Students (APS) which "encourage a culture of life by inspiring and equipping students to bring the culture of life int...

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Pro-life politicians from across the United Kingdom have rallied in defence of unborn children and to reverse Westminster’s extreme Northern Ireland abortion regime. Phillip Lynn, SPUC Northern Ireland’s Development Officer said: "It was encouraging to now see pro-life politicians from across the po...

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Coercion concerns have intensified after it was discovered that Canadian doctors have been harvesting the organs of the recently euthanised to satisfy the demand for donations. John Smeaton, SPUC Chief Executive said: "In seeking to benefit patients however compelling the case, the fundamental right...

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Pro-abortion activists have set a German pro-life journalist’s car ablaze, after he encouraged readers to attend the German March for Life. Responding to the attack, Michael Robinson, SPUC Director of Communications said: "The pro-life movement continues to make progress across Europe. However, as t...

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Actress, Michelle Williams, implied during her Golden Globes acceptance speech yesterday evening that she couldn’t have won her award if she didn’t abort her baby years previous. Eden Linton, SPUC Youth and Education Officer said: "Welcome to 2020, where a trophy is of more value than human life and...

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Abortion pills, also referred to as chemical or medical abortions, are four times more dangerous than surgical abortions, according to a report from the American Journal of Physicians and Surgeons. Michael Robinson, SPUC Director of Communications said: "Pro-abortion advocates falsely claim that abo...

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SPUC has welcomed a response to the Consultation on ‘A New Legal Framework for Abortion Services in Northern Ireland’ from the Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland. Liam Gibson, SPUC Northern Ireland Political Officer said: "The bishops are in a more powerful position than they probably realise. Tog...

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Abortion giant, Planned Parenthood, has revealed its plans to open 50 clinics inside Los Angeles schools. Tom Rogers, SPUC’s Safe at School campaign Officer said: "Embedding Planned Parenthood clinics inside schools is a way to undermine the role and responsibility of parents and directly indoctrina...

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A man who manipulated his pregnant partner into taking abortion drugs to kill their unborn child has been jailed for seven years. John Deighan, SPUC Deputy Chief Executive said: "Keeping abortion in the criminal law, ensures that abusive men are brought to justice." Isaac Lyndsay, aged 27 from Londo...

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By Antonia Tully Only 37% of Irish GPs would not give a woman abortion pills Over 18 months on from the referendum in the Republic of Ireland in May 2018, a new study concludes that any remaining opposition to the provision of abortion must be eliminated. The recently published study, ‘Knowledge and...

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The General Election has resulted in a huge shake-up of the parliamentary arithmetic. "There’s pro-life work to be done," says SPUC, which is calling on its supporters to take action now to find out where new MPs stand on the key pro-life issues of abortion decriminalisation and assisted suicide. Mo...

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By John Smeaton The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has always been non-party political. We urge our supporters to find out the pro-life voting intentions of individual parliamentary candidates standing in their constituency, and to vote for the politicians who, if elected, are...

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New voluntary assisted dying law in Western Australia requires no supervision A bill legalising ‘voluntary assisted dying’ was passed in Western Australia earlier this week. Right to Life Australia described the legislation’s passage as "a great tragedy for Australia", and that it was "a bill of des...

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Authorities in the Canadian city, Quebec, have opened a public consultation, recommending that doctors be given the power to euthanise patients with dementia and other degenerative illnesses, without their active consent. SPUC Director of Communications, Michael Robinson said: "This is a terrifying ...

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The US Supreme Court has upheld a Kentucky State law which requires doctors to show mothers their ultrasound image and let them hear their baby’s heartbeat before an abortion procedure. Fiorella Nash, bioethics consultant said: "If women have the opportunity to see and hear their baby, they could re...

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More women who find out through NIPT that their baby has Down's syndrome have abortions Shocking new statistics have revealed that the number of babies born with Down’s syndrome has fallen by 30% in NHS hospitals which have introduced a new form of prenatal screening.  The mother of a 19 year old wo...

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By Alithea Williams It has long been a staple of political discourse on pro-life matters that abortion is not really an election issue in the UK, in the way that it is in, say, America. While the landscape here may still be very different from America, a number of factors have combined to make abor...

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