Summer Fundraiser – ONE MORE CHANCE! – Day 13
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Dear SPUC Supporter and Friend,
I wanted to give you a quick update on our Summer fundraising campaign, to let you know that (as of this morning) YOU have raised an amazing £41,209.52.
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We are now SO CLOSE to our target of £50,000 – we just need to raise another £8,790.48.
Unfortunately, it is crucial this year that we reach all our fundraising goals.
Due to the economic crisis that has been affecting businesses and households across the UK, we are facing:
- Increased expenditure
- Reduced income.
If we fall short of our fundraising goals, then this month I shall be in the unenviable position of having to consider which essential areas of our work must be cut, in order to make the books balance.
I will have to weigh up what will happen if we withdraw from each particular field.
Should we cut SPUC’s campaigns for our freedom to speak about abortion and pro-life matters?
- But cuts will allow the Abortion Lobby to advance further. Some of their more radical proponents would ban opposition to abortion completely, if they could get away with it.
- And where will that leave us? Arrests, fines, trials, prison – and more precious babies killed.
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Or should we cut SPUC’s help for pregnant mothers in difficult situations?
- But cuts here will prevent us giving a positive witness to the value of life
- Cuts will allow the Abortion Empire to say that ‘pro-lifers do nothing to help mothers’
- But MOST IMPORTANTLY – cuts here will abandon these women to financial pressures, coercive partners, parents, employers and families – all of which make abortion seem like the easiest choice, and so more precious babies will be killed.
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Or should we cut SPUC’s youth outreach?
- But cuts will abandon young people to the ever-growing matrix of abortion and sex-ed propaganda
- As in Northern Ireland, more minors could be pointed to abortion by their schools, without the knowledge of their parents, and with no one to show them a better way
- The abortion narrative will become more and more entrenched
- Without a positive opposing voice, peer pressure will get the better of even some of the strongest young people – and so more precious babies will be killed.
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And what about our work fighting
- Euthanasia and assisted suicide
Or our support for the future legal fights of brave women like
- Lydia, a survivor of abortion coercion
- Mary and Connie (‘The Glasgow Midwives’)
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The target of £50,000 is the bare minimum needed from this campaign, if we are to meet this year’s financial goals, taking into account the tight financial situation in the UK at the present time.
Responses to postal mailings are down 24% from the previous year.
- Email campaigns like these are our lifeline.
We need these funds to protect babies and women from the dangers of abortion.
I really, really had hoped that I could avoid cutting essential areas of our work – but I have to make the books balance.
I am going to have to decide the way forward with a constricted budget – and explain to my team which aspects of work we will have been forced to cut…
… Unless we get a financial miracle.
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But I also want to say THANK YOU to all of you who have helped us get so close to our goal.
- Without you, we really can do nothing – nothing at all.
If you have been waiting to see how far we would get, then now is the time to give!
The more we raise, the more lives we save.
With very warm regards,
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John Deighan
Chief Executive
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