This Saturday, SPUC was due to hold a fringe event on coerced abortion at the SNP’s national conference in Aberdeen. Margaret Akers of SPUC and Clare Bremner of ARCH were going to speak on the gap in the law that means there is no punishment for abusers who coerce a woman into having an abortion. 

However, after complaints from Young Scots for Independence and Women for Independence, we were informed yesterday that our event had been cancelled. That’s right – a women’s group stopped an all women’s panel discussing reproductive violence against women because they don’t like the group talking about it.  

This kind of censorship cannot stand. That is why we will now be holding a protest outside the SNP conference on Saturday. The SNP need to be confronted with the consequences of this. Do they actually disagree with SPUC that women should be protected from being coerced into abortion by abusers? Are there no place for pro-life voices in the party of government?

Time and date: Saturday 17 October, 11.30am 

Meeting place: Aloft Hotel Gough Burn Cres, Aberdeen AB21 9FY 

Placards will be provided.