Scottish legal challenge to protect women from trauma of home abortions SPUC Scotland is pursuing a judicial review against the Scottish Government: Home abortions put women at risk and are unlawful. 27 April 2018 marked 50 years since the Abortion Act 967 came into force. Tragically, nine million ...

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SPUC Scotland - Project Truth is an award winning youth outreach imitative run by SPUC Scotland. Every summer, we travel around the towns and cities of Scotland, bringing the pro-life message to the streets. We also run engaging monthly stalls to change hearts and minds about the intrinsic value ...

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SPUC Scotland - SPUC EDUCATIONAL Programme At SPUC Scotland we have established an extensive and skilled educational programme designed to equip school students with a wide ranging professional knowledge on the importance of life from conception until natural death. All lectures and workshops are...

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ABORTION PILL AT HOME

In a harrowing shift towards the decriminalisation of abortion, the Scottish Government has declared that women would be permitted to take the second abortion pill (misoprostol) at home. With this perilous decision made without crucial parliamentary scrutiny or public consultation, this move ultimately signifies a severe threat to the health and well-being of women. Recent evidence has exposed the high risk complications abortion pills can induce compared to surgical terminations. In 2016, 206 women in England and Wales faced medical complications including haemorrhage and sepsis, all before leaving an abortion clinic.

THE LEGAL BATTLE

SPUC Scotland has served papers to the Scottish Government regarding their dangerous decision allowing the second abortion pill to be taken at home. Defying the requirements of the 1967 Abortion Act, this decision is alarmingly unlawful.  SPUC Scotland stand firm in the belief that the designation of a woman’s home for an abortion to take place is unacceptable. With no medical oversight or the guarantee of the medication being consumed correctly or even at all, the decision by Scottish Government reveals a strong disregard for basic health and wellbeing. See more...

ABORTION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH

In November 2017, SPUC launched Abortion and Women's Health. This document is an evidence-based review for medical  professionals of the impact of abortion on women’s physical and mental health.

This campaign focuses on the evidential based review by Dr. Greg Pike and this documentation reveals the psychological, physical and emotional affects the abortion procedure has upon women.

Key Findings include:

  • Women who have had an abortion are six times more likely to commit suicide, compared to those women who carried pregnancies to term.
  • Following an abortion, a woman’s risk of depression increases by 30%, she faces a 25% increased risk of anxiety.
  • Women who have had an abortion face a greater risk of psychiatric admission compared to women who give birth.
  • Women who decided to terminate an un-intended pregnancy faced a greater risk of substance abuse and self-harm, compared to those who decided to carry their un-intended pregnancy to term.

ABORTION FOR WOMEN FROM NORTHERN IRELAND

Women from Northern Ireland can now access free abortions through the Scotland’s National Health Service. The Scottish Government has declared these services accessible to Northern Irish women free of charge which include; the termination, contraceptives and sexual health treatment. Estimations have revealed this decision will cost £98,000, which is prone to rise based on the numbers accessing the services. This decision not only disrespects the sovereignty of Northern Ireland, but it re-affirms the severity of societal failure in which women feel they must choose between social commodities and the life of their child. A society where face not choice, but a lack of options and support.

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SPUC Scotland We are Scotland’s pro-life organisation. Our goal is a Scotland that protects life from conception to natural death. Meet the Team John Deighan, CEO Lucille McQuade, PA to the CEO Michael J Robinson, Director of Communications and Campaigns Emmet Dooley, Director of Education and Out...

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We are Scotland’s pro-life organisation. Our goal is a Scotland that protects life from conception to natural death. Find out more about SPUC Scotland
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If you would like more information on SPUC’s Education and Research work, or would like to submit a proposal for collaboration, please contact SPUC’s  Director of Research Dr Anthony McCarthy on anthonymccarthy@spuc.org.uk .

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The following truths are at the heart of ’s work:

  • Marriage, the exclusive life-long union of one man and one woman, is the foundation of a stable and flourishing society and is the greatest protector of children, born and unborn.
  • The procreative and unitive ends of the conjugal act cannot licitly be separated; the rejection of this truth lies at the root of modern attacks on life and the family. 
  • Parents are the primary educators of their children and the protection of this right is an essential foundation for building a new “culture of life”.

Voice of the Family works to support cardinals, bishops and priests to uphold the Catholic teaching on the family and to strengthen and nourish the faith of the laity. The coalition has organised a number of major conferences in Rome, including the Rome Life Forum, which takes place annually in May. Themes of previous VOTF conferences have been: the correct understanding of conscience, the encyclical letter Humanae Vitae, the rights of parents as the primary educators of their children, Catholic lay activism and the 2014 and 2015 synods on the family. Voice of the Family publishes the quarterly magazine Calx Mariae and has also produced in-depth analysis and comment on many of the issues facing the family, and the Church, in our times.

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Wales SPUC campaigns for the Welsh government to protect pregnant women and their unborn children. See: Welsh people must act!
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Although the courts recognise a legal defence for a doctor who ends a pregnancy when a woman’s life is in danger, the strength of opposition from the people of and their elected representatives has prevented any liberalisation of the law. Most recently, in February 2016, the Northern Ireland Assembly rejected an attempt to legalise abortion for children diagnosed with a life-limiting condition or conceived through criminal sexual activity.

Frustrated by their lack of success in Northern Ireland’s political arena, abortion advocates have turned to the Courts and in the coming months the UK Supreme Court will decide if protecting unborn babies from abortion violates the European Convention on Human Rights.

In June of 2017, the Westminster Government announced that it would reimburse commercial abortion providers for the cost of abortions performed on women from Northern Ireland. Official figures show that over the past 15 years the number of women travelling to Britain for abortions has steadily fallen from 1577 in 2001 to 724 in 2016. It is too early to gauge the full impact of this policy, but it is clear that the abortion industry and its political allies are as determined as ever to undermine the Province’s legal protection for unborn babies. 

Historically Northern Ireland, without the Abortion Act, has had one of the lowest maternal mortality rates in the UK proving that it is possible to protect both women and unborn babies. This is because abortion is not healthcare, it is an act of lethal violence directed at an unborn child.

Through its work with the people and politicians of the Province, SPUC has been instrumental in maintaining pro-life laws in Northern Ireland. 

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Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman"The Government is determined to trample over the rights of parents to bring up their children in line with their own values."As alarm over the upcoming introduction of compulsory Relationships education in all schools in England grows, SPUC's Safe at School Cam...

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"There’s nothing inherently medical about dying. It’s much more than medicine. It’s purely human" – Dr B.J. MillerEnd game, nominated for best documentary (short subject), is a Netflix film that follows terminally ill patients as they make choices regarding their end of life care. All the stories co...

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SPUC Structure SPUC is a grassroots voluntary organisation. SPUC is supported by volunteers around the country, who put their time, skills and financial support towards helping us meet our aims. The society depends on donations and fundraising by members and supporters. Many of the organisations o...

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​Sue Thayer (r), a former Planned Parenthood manager, debates Ann Furedi. She said she "struggles" with why infanticide is not the same as late term abortion Sue Thayer was the manager of a Planned Parenthood centre in Iowa for almost 18 years. After a remarkable conversion experience, she led the...

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SPUC organises Pro-Life Chains to promote the pro-life message around the country We are the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), the oldest pro-life campaigning and educational organisation in the world. Our Society was founded in January 1967 to oppose the abortion bill being deba...

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Stella Creasy (r) with fellow pro-abortion campaigner Diana Johnson MP.She's organised a letter calling on the Government to expand the bill to Northern IrelandLast month, Stella Creasy MP reacted furiously when it emerged that the Government's flagship Draft Domestic Abuse Bill only applied to Engl...

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​Liam Gibson, Jim Wells MLA, Maria Madise, John Smeaton.The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has established a new headquarters in Northern Ireland.The new office, in central Belfast, was formally opened by prominent pro-life politician Jim Wells on Friday 15 February, at an ev...

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Acet UK (Aids Care Education and Training) Is a Christian charity with ‘a mission to equip and inspire individuals, schools, churches and organisations, in the UK and internationally, to transform culture by promoting healthy self-esteem, positive relationships and good sexual health’.In a letter da...

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A woman on the show died of an infection after seeking an abortion.On 3 February, the BBC aired an episode of Call the Midwife in which a woman died from an infection following an illegal abortion. This is the second illegal abortion storyline on the programme in 2019 (read about the first here). Af...

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How would legalising assisted suicide change the relationship between doctors and patients?"This poll puts a sword to the lie that changing the law on assisted suicide enjoys unremitting support."Introducing physician-assisted suicide would fundamentally change the doctor-patient relationship, a maj...

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