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Concerns have been raised about the scrutiny process of the assisted suicide bill going through Parliament, as the committee tasked with examining it got off to a controversial start, yesterday.
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A couple who allegedly aborted their baby past the legal limit have been sentenced to community service and unpaid work for concealing the body of their stillborn baby in a rubbish bin. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that after “careful reflection” it had decided not to pursue the additional…
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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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On 24 October, SPUC held its annual Candlelight Procession through the streets of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Why do people support a change in the law on assisted suicide? According to Professor David Albert Jones, director of the Anscombe Centre for Bioethics in Oxford, the most common reasons are; avoiding a bad death involving pain, allowing choice, and to provide safeguards for something which is already happening.
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Palliative care doctors on the frontline of end-of-life medicine in the UK are overwhelmingly against Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill that will be voted on at the end of November, despite safety and ethical concerns.
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A murder investigation has been opened after a young woman was allegedly euthanised by a doctor and two nurses using a pillow following a botched attempt at palliative care.
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A former BBC journalist is suing the Liberal Democrats after the party allegedly deselected him as a candidate because of his pro-life views before the 2024 General Election.
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Pro-life marches in Germany and Slovakia saw stunning turnouts last weekend, with 40,000 people attending one march in the Slovakian city of Košice. “Keep up your witness. Your steadfast determination will bring down the mask of lies that our opponents need to work constantly to maintain”, SPUC’s CEO told a…
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The abortion rate in Florida has fallen by over 30% since the state’s six-week ban came into effect in May, reports the Guttmacher Institute.
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Palliative care consultant Dr Dominic Whitehouse tells SPUC about working in a hospice, why assisted suicide is dangerous and why he would be devastated if there was a change in the law.
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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