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Featured Campaign
Lives Worth Living
Join Campaign: Lives Worth LivingSPUC upholds the right to life from conception until natural death, and has played a part in resisting many attempts both in Parliament and in the courts to change the law on assisted suicide.
Our Campaigns
At SPUC we provide you with all the guidance and tools you need to engage in our campaigns and impact policy
Through campaigning, we can create real impact. Our comprehensive campaigns offer opportunities to:
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Active Campaigns
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YES to our hospices, NO to assisted suicide
Join us in petitioning the Prime Minister to fund the urgent staffing needs of our world class hospices. Palliative care has suffered in countries where assisted suicide has been legalised.
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Lives Worth Living
SPUC upholds the right to life from conception until natural death, and has played a part in resisting many attempts both in Parliament and in the courts to change the law on assisted suicide.
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End DIY Abortion: Justice for Baby Lily
Measures allowing women to self-induce medical abortions at home, without meeting with a medical professional in person, were first approved at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. In the more than four years since this “pills by post” policy has been…
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Fight the Leadbeater bill
Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP for Spen Valley, has announced that she will be bringing a bill on assisted suicide. Ms Leadbetter won top place in the private members ballot, so her bill has a high chance of succeeding if…
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End the British Government’s cruel two-child benefit cap
Did you know that BPAS, one of Britain’s biggest abortion providers, has identified that the Government’s punitive two-child Universal Credit limit is “a significant factor” in many women deciding to abort their child?
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Abortion and Coercion
Ideas about “choice” and “autonomy” are central to the abortion industry. In reality, however, many abortions take place because a woman feels she has no choice – either because of her circumstances, or because she has been forced by her…
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Scotland: Oppose the assisted suicide bill
Let’s keep Scotland safe for the people we love MSP Liam McArthur (Scottish Liberal Democrat, Orkney) has lodged proposals for an Assisted Dying Scotland Members Bill. The Stage One debate and vote is expected to take place on 22 May.…
Latest Press Releases
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Snap General Election called for 4th July
We just wanted to send you a quick message responding to the breaking news that the Prime Minister has just called a snap General Election for 4 July. Parliament will be prorogued on Friday this week, meaning dozens of Bills will proceed no further. Dissolution will take place on Thursday…
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Parental opt-out consultation a “slap in the face” to parents in Northern Ireland
BELFAST, 4 September 2023: The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), the UK’s oldest grassroots pro-life organisation is calling on concerned parents, teachers and school governors across Northern Ireland to use the public consultation on relationships and sex-education (RSE) l
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Court of Appeal rejects calls to defend Northern Ireland’s devolution settlement from Westminster’s abortion power grab – says
Pro-life campaigners bringing a legal challenge against the 2021 Northern Ireland Abortion Regulations are warning that the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of their case has dealt another body blow to Northern Ireland’s devolution settlement by handing unlimited power to the Secretary of Sta
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House of Commons approves buffer zones in
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has reacted with disappointment after MPs voted to ban even silent prayer around abortion clinics. MPs were voting on an amendment to a clause introducing buffer zones around abortion clinics, which had been added into the Public Order Bill a
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Abortion buffer zones an “outrageous assault on civil liberties” says SPUC as controversial amendment clears the Lords
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has slammed a vote to impose buffer zones around abortion clinics, calling it an “outrageous assault on civil liberties”.
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UK supreme court uphold law banning pro-life vigils
LONDON 7 December 2022 — The UK Supreme Court says banning peaceful pro-life vigils and threatening demonstrators with fines and imprisonment is not a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Past Campaigns
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Invite your MP to our assisted suicide briefing in Parliament
SPUC will be holding an assisted suicide briefing for MPs in Parliament to discuss concerns about the safeguards in the Leadbeater Bill.
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Let Life Flourish: A Spiritual Bouquet
Between 28th December 2023 and 30th November 2024, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and the Knights of St. Columba are uniting in prayer for an end to the culture of death and for a flourishing of the culture of life. Let…
Why Do We Campaign?
Campaigning drives change by influencing policy, raising awareness and ensuring that the right to life is defended and protected.
At the heart of our mission is a commitment to advocating for the right to life. We campaign to create a society where every life is valued and supported, from conception to natural death.
Our campaigns focus on raising awareness, challenging harmful policies and providing practical support for those in need. By engaging with communities across the UK and lobbying our politicians, we aim to build a future that promotes a culture of life.
Related Articles
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Canadian man offered assisted suicide after denial of surgery for workplace injury
A Canadian man who was injured in a workplace accident, and then denied surgery, which he begged for, has been granted Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) on request. “Today I received a photo and post from a Dr friend of mine, who pointed out the most wild case of MAiD…
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson speaks against assisted suicide bill at SPUC Lives Worth Living event in Middlesbrough
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson spoke at SPUC’s Lives Worth Living event in Middlesbrough last Friday to warn against MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill that threatens disabled people. Baroness Grey-Thompson, one of the greatest Paralympians of all time, amassed 11 gold medals, four silvers and one bronze in the wheelchair…
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UK Catholic Medical Association slams “dangerously flawed” assisted suicide bill
The UK Catholic Medical Association (CMA) has slammed MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, saying that it will make patients accessing healthcare “fear for their safety”.
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Assisted suicide: the missing safeguards
The Committee stage of Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill (Adults) End of Life bill has now ended.
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Health Secretary Wes Streeting to vote against Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill
The Health Secretary has said that he will vote against Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill after voicing concerns about coercion and funding “implications” for the NHS and palliative care.
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Scottish assisted suicide bill “may be beyond powers” of Holyrood, legal experts warn
Legal experts have warned that MSP Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill “may be beyond the powers of the Scottish Parliament” to enact, and even if passed, “the new law would be either unworkable or extremely dangerous”. Legal experts Mary Neal, Murray Earle and Michael Foran…
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Catholic Bishops’ Conference warns that assisted suicide will turn NHS into “national death service”
The pastoral letter, which will be read out in parishes in the Westminster archdiocese this weekend, urges Catholics to contact their respective MPs to oppose Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill for England and Wales.
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UN report slams assisted suicide in Canada that targets disabled people, calls for repeal of MAiD for people with no terminal illnesses
A UN committee has called for the repeal of assisted suicide in Canada for people who have no terminal illnesses, especially the disabled which, a report concluded, is discriminatory towards disability. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Committee published its report last month and recommended…