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SPUC has told a Holyrood committee hearing evidence for and against buffer zones that such legislation is unnecessary and is based on a false assumption about pro-life vigils, and it would set an “alarming” precedent for freedom of thought and expression.
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A retired medical scientist will be tried for breaching a “buffer zone” after holding a sign offering to talk to women outside an abortion facility in Bournemouth.
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A representative for Police Scotland has told a Holyrood committee that laws already exist to deal with any criminal behavior outside abortion facilities, adding that it hasn’t identified any such crimes.
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The French Parliament this week voted to make abortion a constitutional right, making it the first nation in the world to guarantee the right to kill unborn children up to 14 weeks.
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Nearly 500 medics have signed an open letter opposing the proposed decriminalisation of abortion in anticipation of a Parliamentary debate on Dame Diana Johnson’s pro-abortion amendment.
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On Thursday evening, 29 February, members of the Manchester Pro-Life Society had to be given a police escort out of a meeting held inside the Students’ Union building that was surrounded by aggressive demonstrators.
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SPUC is urging supporters to submit a complaint to the BBC following its biased reporting on an assisted suicide committee report.
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A Holyrood health committee is currently hearing evidence for and against the implementation of buffer zones in Scotland, with SPUC due to appear later this month.
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Hundreds of young pro-lifers gathered at SPUC’s annual Youth Conference to champion the pro-life cause and learn how to make abortion unthinkable.
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Dr Jonathan Lord, medical director at MSI, has admitted that DIY abortion, otherwise known as “pills by post”, is to blame for the “unprecedented” rise in investigations of women suspected of having illegal abortions.
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An anonymous petition has tried but so far failed to cancel the Manchester Pro-Life Society. SPUC, which has condemned the petition, continues to defend pro-life students’ legal right to free speech “currently under threat from intolerant students”.
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Parents in England who have suffered a miscarriage before 24 weeks of pregnancy may now apply for a baby loss certificate to recognise the life of their child. SPUC has welcomed the scheme as “a step in the right direction towards building a culture of life that recognises the right…
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Dr Lord, medical director at MSI Reproductive Choices, told the BBC that he knows of up to 60 women facing criminal inquiries for suspected abortion crime in England and Wales since 2018, compared with almost zero before.
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Half of mothers who have abortions say that the cost of childcare is the main reason for aborting a child, a devastating survey has found, warning that “We’re running out of babies”.
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SPUC has hosted the UK event of the annual “Night to Shine” prom for the fourth successive year for people with special needs.