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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Jameela Jamil, British actress and TV personality, has targeted pro-lifers in her most recent online pro-abortion tantrum. Jamil berated the pro-life Twitter audience as "clueless", likening them to trolls and instructed those who disagreed with her to "suck on that." Eden Linton, SPUC Youth and Edu...

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Recent polling results indicating that 55% of the Irish public are in favour of assisted suicide has prompted SPUC to warn of the "looming threat" of physician assisted suicide. SPUC Deputy Chief Executive, John Deighan said: "The continual promotion of emotive stories in favour of assisted suicide ...

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SPUC is encouraging supporters to “please give generously” this ‘Giving Tuesday’, a day of global generosity, where contributions are made to worthy causes. SPUC General Secretary, Matthew McCusker said: “There are tens of thousands of people alive today because of the ...

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The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has called for women to obtain abortion drugs over Skype or Facetime instead of meeting with their doctor, and then perform their own DIY abortion at home. SPUC has slammed the proposals as "playing fast and loose with women’s health." SPU...

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By Grace Browne I was struck by an article in The Independent, claiming that abortion is not linked with suicide. It is bizarre that The Independent, which in 2017 supported the claim that school tests cripple mental health, will now so eagerly endorse the idea that there is no reason why killing o...

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A senior NHS mental health worker was jailed for 10 years for having sexual relations with an underage teenager and forcing her to have an abortion against her will to conceal his illegal sexual activity. SPUC said that the case is "an important wake-up call." Givemore Gezi aged 39, a married man, ...

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UK abortion giant, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), has praised Dr Fox online pharmacy for slashing the price of the morning after pill to £3 ahead of the Christmas party season and encouraging women to ‘stock up.’ SPUC’s Director of Research, Dr Anthony McCarthy said: "It should worry us ...

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By Alithea Williams MPs backing Diana Johnson's decriminalisation bill in 2017. The big news in the election campaign in the last week is that both the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties have pledged, in their manifestos, to decriminalise abortion. The Liberal Democrat manifesto says that it will "...

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Parents who refused abortion after being told their unborn child had Edward’s syndrome say that "medical professionals need to be aware that children with trisomy 18 can live a wonderful life" after their daughter defied the odds and survived to reach her first birthday. Parents Dillon and Hayley J...

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23 January 2020         Safe at School, a national parents’ advocacy group, has condemned the Welsh Government’s move to make Relationships and Sexuality Education a compulsory school subject in all schools in Wales. From 2021 parents in Wales will no longer be able to withdraw their children from...

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The UK’s oldest and largest pro-life organisation, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has slammed the comments of Anglican Leader, Archbishop Welby. In a radio interview this week, Archbishop Welby spoke in support of censorship zones. Censorship zones strip pregnant women of t...

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An "intolerant and disrespectful crowd of hecklers" suppressed pro-life students, as Cardiff Students’ Union voted to adopt an official "pro-choice" stance. The pro-abortion motion was passed yesterday evening, November 21st, by a majority of Cardiff students who were described as an "intolerant and...

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The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned the Liberal Democrats’ manifesto pledges on abortion. The party promises to expand abortion provision vastly by removing it from the criminal law, imposing draconian censorship zones around clinics, and providing free abortions f...

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