SPUC Scotland’s primary youth initiative, Project Truth, has been honoured with the Michael Bell Memorial Award. The UK Knights of St Columba, a member of the International Alliance of Catholic Knights, nominated Project Truth for this prestigious award. The International Judging Panel chose the Sco...

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Centura Health follows the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services for their guidelines  A Catholic hospital in Colorado is facing a legal challenge after firing an employee who planned to kill a patient by assisted suicide. Centura Health, a Catholic healthcare network ba...

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By Matthew McCusker Corporal John Cross 1877-1916, and his medla from the mine workers union. SPUC’s work is founded on the generosity of our donors - we are entirely dependent on extraordinary men and women up and down the country giving generously to protect those who are not able to protect thems...

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Sarah Ewart, second from left, and Grainne Taggart of Amnesty International, who have been pushing the case. In a decision that "turns justice on its head" the High Court in Belfast has ruled that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws breach the UK’s human rights commitments. The High Court judge found i...

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Today’s ruling in the case of five-old Tafida Raqeeb has been described as a ‘victory for human life and justice’ says the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. The harrowing case was a hard fought battle between Tafida’s parents who want to take their very sick child to a hospital in Italy...

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The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has reacted to a court’s decision that Northern Ireland is in breach of human rights in the case of abortion for so-called fatal foetal abnormality. Belfast’s High Court found in favour of Sarah Ewart but declined to make a formal declaration ...

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Five-old Tafida Raqeeb can be taken to Italy for treatment by her parents, a court ruled today. SPUC described the ruling as a ‘victory for human life and justice’. The harrowing case was a hard fought battle between Tafida’s parents who want to take their very sick child to a hospital in Italy, whe...

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Muscles in the back of a 10-week-old human embryo’s hand called dorsometacarpales (the two smallest horizontal muscles highlighted at center) will be lost or fuse with other muscles during development. Image: RUI DIOGO, NATALIA SIOMAVA AND YORICK GITTON Scientists have released incredible images sho...

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The NIO will shortly begin an awareness campaign on the proposed abortion changes. "By imposing an extreme abortion regime on Northern Ireland, Westminster has ridden roughshod over the devolution settlement." In a move that a SPUC spokesman says "undermines any consultation process", the Northern I...

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Safe at School, a UK-wide parents’ advocacy organisation, has slammed plans by the Welsh Government to make relationships and sexuality education (RSE) compulsory.  Antonia Tully of the Safe at School campaign said: "Making relationships and sex education compulsory school subjects is a state-takeov...

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Mothers who have experienced the devastation of stillbirth say that the change could save lives. BPAS will not acknowledge the humanity of the unborn baby because their work is destroying these little ones." BPAS, Britain’s largest abortion provider, has opposed "life-saving" change to inquest rules...

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More than 800 health care professionals have written to the secretary of state opposing the imposition of a radical new abortion regime on Northern Ireland. The letter is addressed to Julian Smith MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and permanent health secretary for Northern Ireland, Richar...

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Mark Blackwell says that in his life, love has not changed   A severely disabled man has spoken out against changing the law on assisted suicide, following the acquittal of Maeve Ecclestone , charged with murdering her 80 year old husband who had advanced bowel cancer. Mrs Ecclestone gave her husban...

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The third national march for life in Slovakia     An estimated 50,000 pro-life people have gathered in Bratislava, Slovakia, to promote the value of human life from conception to natural death and call for an end to abortion in the country. The demands The march was organised by the Catholic Bishop...

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The staff involved are under investigation   A doctor in South Korea has performed an abortion on the wrong woman after medical staff failed to confirm her identity and confused her with another patient, authorities have said. The unnamed woman, from Vietnam, was six weeks pregnant when she visited...

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The care home where Robert Knight killed his mother   Robert Knight, 53, was described as a ‘devoted son’ and cleared of murder after he killed his mother who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease by throwing her off a 13ft balcony.  SPUC believe this case raises troubling questions over a cultural shi...

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20th September 2019 By Grace Browne Misinformation kills. It killed 218,518 last year in the United Kingdom, to be exact. There is a lot of misinformation in the public sphere regarding abortion, and it is endangering countless people. So, let’s bust some myths and save some lives. Abortion pills a...

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Photo: Strathclyde Business School   A pro-life student group has been ordered to tear down posters at a university freshers’ week in a censorship row just months after being embroiled in a legal fight for recognition at their student association. The Strathclyde Students for Life group successfull...

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The strathclyde students for life logo of a baby was deemed graphic    A pro-life student group has been ordered to tear down posters at a university freshers’ week in a censorship row just months after being embroiled in a legal fight for recognition at their student association. The Strathclyd...

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Kiera and daughter Lillee-Rose Image: The Scotsman    Kiera Meldrum, aged 20, was offered an abortion every single week following her 21-week scan, which discovered that her unborn baby had severe ascites to the bowel. The young mum from York, bravely defied the doctors’ orders to abort her baby, e...

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