Today is Day 9 of SPUC's Summer Fundraising Appeal
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Dear SPUC supporter,
I’m writing to you today to tell you about our MAJOR campaign which is already making waves in Parliament and the media.
I need YOU to help us with this campaign – but first, I want to tell you why it is so important for building a world where abortion is unthinkable.
On 16 May, SPUC launched an exclusive report in Parliament, highlighting the prevalence of coerced abortion in China.
- China’s murderous practices are well known.
- But did you know that the UK is complicit in these killings?
SPUC has long worked to expose China's coercive reproductive policies, including forced abortion, sterilisation and other abuses.
Under the One Child Policy, these practices – along with imprisonment, torture and financial ruin – were perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in order to reduce the size of the population.
Moves to a ‘two-’ and then ‘three-child policy’ – made necessary by the horrendous ‘success’ of these policies – have not brought the brutal state interference in family life to an end.
- For the majority ethnic group, ‘softer’ forms of abortion coercion on mothers and women of childbearing age are deployed
- But the tools of government coercion remain in place
- Especially for the Uyghur minority.
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And through sending taxpayers’ money – YOUR money – to China, the UK Government is complicit in all of this.
SPUC has exposed, for the first time, the extent of UK Government complicity in barbaric atrocities committed against the Chinese people.
In 2011, the Department for International Development had committed to stop sending aid to China. They wanted us to believe that that was the end of the matter.
- But in fact, UK Government complicity did not end there at all.
Other departments – such as the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and the Department for Health and Social Care – all initiated NEW aid partnerships with China.
Figures vary, but in 2019, it seems that what the ICAI call ‘a complex mosaic’ of aid, reaching between £68 million and £82 million, was sent to China by various Government departments.
- That’s to say nothing of the millions sent to international ‘Family Planning’ agencies over the years (such as IPFF and UNFPA), both of which have a long history of operations in China.
The figures for last year are not yet available, but according to the Chief Commissioner for the Independent Commission for Aid Impact, over £60 million of UK taxpayers’ money was sent to China in 2020-1.
Bear in mind that China is the second-biggest economy in the world.
This money should have been used to improve lives in the UK, and not to end lives in China.
SPUC report causes ‘row’ and ‘major inquiry’
Just before SPUC launched the report – with a foreword by Tim Loughton MP – in Parliament on May 16, The Daily Mail reported the eruption of a ‘Tory row’ and a ‘major inquiry’ because of the impact of our report within the Conservative party.
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The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office scrambled to insist that ‘no UK aid funds forced abortion practices in China’. But this is a clumsy attempt at concealing the truth.
Other UK Government departments are sending MILLIONS to a country in which, as The Daily Mail reports, ‘coerced or forced abortions were happening on an industrial scale.’
At the launch event, which attracted politicians from across the political spectrum, Jacob Rees-Mogg MP thanked SPUC for exposing the funding being sent to China. He said:
‘Letting people know about it is tremendously important. How could a penny of our money be going to a regime that does this?
‘That British taxpayers’ money should be used to support one of the most evil, totalitarian regimes in the world, that forces women who want to have children to abort their babies, if you don’t think that is a scandal, then what human rights abuse would you think is a scandal?’
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As I said, this is an issue of cross-party concern.
Sarah Champion, a Labour MP who chairs the House of Commons International Development Committee, said that she thinks ‘[I]t is astounding that the UK still gives any ODA to China.’ She went on:
‘I expect UK taxpayers would much rather see aid going to countries that are on the brink of humanitarian crises rather than to the second-largest economy in the world.’
Champion is right – we would. A recent independent poll, commissioned by SPUC, found:
- Almost two-thirds of the public (60%) think that the UK should cut funding in countries such as China where concerns exist about women being coerced into abortion.
- 76% (including 78% of women) also believed that ANY country in receipt of aid should be made to explicitly ban gender-selective abortion and abortion on the grounds of ethnicity.
The British public and numerous MPs have made their voice clear: taxpayer funds should not be sent to a nation that engages in such heinous (and discriminatory) practices.
Governmental use of abortion and other coercive means of population control as part of a deliberate policy of genocide in China have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
This campaign has made waves and got people talking about abortion.
Following his attendance at the launch, Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg MP invited Alithea Williams, SPUC's Public Policy Manager, to join him on GB News to discuss the report and its findings.
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Since then, my brave SPUC colleagues have been demonstrating outside the Chinese Embassy itself, and exposing China's murderous policies.
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SPUC’s campaign has been endorsed by the Very Reverend Fr Lawrence Lew OP, the Promoter General of the Rosary and the Prior of London’s Rosary Shrine. He said:
'SPUC does a service for the truth in highlighting a terrible campaign of State-enforced abortions that violates the rights of women, families, and most importantly the unborn child’s fundamental human right to life.
‘As British citizens we do not want our own UK Government to fund or aid such crimes against humanity.
‘As such I support the campaign of SPUC in raising awareness of this issue.'
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This is why SPUC is calling for the UK Government to end all funding to China’s genocidal regime. This would also mean an end to sending aid to China via multinationals and international ‘family planning’ agencies.
This will ensure that British taxpayers are not funding, directly or indirectly, methods of genocide against Uyghurs that include forced abortion.
It will also make clear to the Chinese Communists that the British public abhor their brutal methods of population control.
As opinion polls have shown, the British people do not want to be complicit in genocide. The Government must act NOW to make sure the will of the British people is upheld.
The Complicit campaign has put abortion back on the national stage – and in a way that is devastating to the narrative of 'choice'.
This is because the myth of 'choice' is starkly contradicted by the revelation of the prevalence of abortion coercion, here and overseas.
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Only SPUC is able to mount campaigns and legal challenges that confront the Government with FACTS like these.
- But if we are silenced – as many of our opponents are actively seeking – then no-one will be left to speak up for the babies.
- And if the serious economic crisis afflicting many families and organisations – including SPUC – forced us to cut back on key projects, who will take up the heavy torch, which SPUC has been carrying since 1967?
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My predecessor, John Smeaton – with his predecessor, Phyllis Bowman
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That’s why your backing is more important than ever.
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SPUC relies entirely on donations from its rank-and-file supporters to make sure the truth about abortion can never be extinguished.
- While abortion giants like Marie Stopes and IPPF receive millions in government handouts, SPUC doesn’t receive a penny from the UK Government or The National Lottery.
Many of our fellow citizens have succumbed to abortion propaganda, or the deadly vice of indifference. That makes your donation all the more important.
With food inflation running at around 16%, a growing number of our donors — particularly those with young families — are struggling to support SPUC financially at the level they once did.
- SPUC’s head of fundraising has informed me that income from postal appeals – our biggest source of income – has dropped by 24% year-on-year.
Worse still, things show little sign of improving – interest rates are rising again, and the squeeze is getting tighter.
All I’m asking, is that when you look for where you need to cut your own costs…
… And when you’re looking at the rising gas and electricity bills…
… And when you’re considering what is essential in your own monthly budgets…
… Please remember that it is indeed essential to continue supporting our precious unborn children, the beautiful babies whom you and I have been defending for so long.
In fact, it is so essential that, for these precious babies, it’s a matter of life and death.
I’m sure you know that when revenue drops, cuts must be made somewhere to balance the books.
It would be a tragedy if SPUC were unable to continue to engage in the political sphere at current levels.
Backed by kind donations of £20 and £30 and £50 the Society’s work in Parliament, schools, and in the courts has saved many thousands of babies' lives over the years, and with your continued support they can continue to do so.
Can I call on your financial help TODAY, with a donation allowing SPUC to continue being a voice for unborn children, in Parliament and elsewhere?
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Donations of £250 or £500 or £1,000 or more have an incredible effect too. Without them, major investment in projects like our ground-breaking China campaign would simply not be possible.
With your help – SPUC can continue its work, delivering devastating blows which strike at the foundations of the wicked Abortion Empire.
Without your help – I cannot say what will happen.
Please help with a donation TODAY:
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Thank you sincerely for your great love and support for unborn babies.
Yours in defence of life
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John Deighan
Chief Executive
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PS: Under my leadership, SPUC’s vision is to make abortion unthinkable. I know that’s a bold aim and I know that SPUC can’t do this alone.
The Christian reformer, William Wilberforce, was considered radical (and no doubt naïve) when he declared that it was his intention to end slavery.
But he knew that with God on his side, anything was possible – and his campaign was eventually successful.
- It’s not politicians who create radical shifts in public policy, but rather ‘ideas’ (often unthinkable ones) that gradually gain acceptance among the public over time.
When those ideas enter what is called the ‘Overton Window’, politicians become willing to back them by voting for new legislation.
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By raising awareness of the horrible plight of the Chinese women, especially the Uyghurs, we are getting the issue of abortion talked about in the open.
This is the only way that we can change hearts and minds in this abortion discourse, and build consensus with new allies.
The Uyghurs and their babies – singled out for death – need our support. At a time when so many families in Britain are struggling to make ends meet the UK Government is sending our money to a government committing genocide. This must stop.
Will you consider setting up a regular donation of £10 or £20 a month, and so help us save precious babies’ lives today?
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