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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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Kim Leadbeater accused of “misleading” MPs about public support for her assisted suicide bill
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has been accused of sending a “highly misleading email to MPs” about the depth of public support for assisted suicide in relation to her proposed Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
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Labour MPs slam Kim Leadbeater’s “flawed and dangerous” assisted suicide bill
In a letter to fellow Labour parliamentarians, a group of Labour MPs have called out the Leadbeater Bill as “irredeemably flawed and not fit to become law”.
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Assisted suicide bill roll-out delayed after minister revolt against “unworkable” bill
The roll-out of MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, if legalised, has been delayed until 2029, casting doubt about whether the draft law will ever be implemented, though there are concerns that the delay will be spun by Ms Leadbeater to win over MPs troubled by the Bill.
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“Enormous” rise in euthanasia among mentally ill young people causes concern in the Netherlands
There has been an “enormous” rise in young people being euthanised in the Netherlands for the reason of mental health, including an autistic boy aged 16 to 18 suffering from depression, leading to doubts about the deadly practice. Nearly 10,000 people were killed by euthanasia in the Netherlands in 2024,…
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Assisted suicide: a conveyor belt for the vulnerable
Kim Leadbeater MP has proclaimed that her assisted dying bill will have “the world’s strongest safeguards”. Yet as the weeks go by, the news coming out of the Committee scrutinising this bill doesn’t match Ms Leadbeater’s claim. Those of us who are worried that legalising assisted suicide will send us…
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Leadbeater Committee refuses opt-out for hospices not wanting to provide assisted suicide
MPs reviewing the Leadbeater Bill at Committee stage have voted against opt-outs for hospices that do not want to provide assisted suicide. MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for England and Wales proposes to legalise assisted suicide for terminally ill adults given six months to live.…
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Kim Leadbeater admits that assisted suicide criteria could be expanded in future if legalised
MP Kim Leadbeater has admitted for the first time that the eligibility criteria of her proposed assisted suicide bill could be expanded in the future. “That could happen”, she confessed on LBC on 21 March. Challenged by LBC’s Natasha Clark on whether the proposed law would create a “slippery slope”,…
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Euthanasia surged by 17% in Belgium in 2024 and killed one child
Almost 4,000 people were killed by euthanasia in Belgium in 2024, a rise of nearly 17% in twelve months, according to official statistics showing that a minor (aged under 18) was also killed, bringing the total of euthanised children since 2014 to six. There were 3,991 euthanasia cases in Belgium…