BPAS backs the Mackay censorship Bill while its safety record reads like a catalogue of horrors

AUTUMN APPEAL

Dear Supporter

I wanted to say an enormous THANK YOU to everyone who has donated to SPUC’s autumn appeal.

With just a few more days to run, I am delighted to tell you that a tremendous £50,224.12 has been raised to date.

We are inching closer to our £100K autumn appeal target.
But we’re not there yet.

Money is needed URGENTLY to fund censorship-free platforms for pro-life speech and combat the ruthless anti-life policies which are resulting in a record number of UK babies being killed in the womb.

Key campaigns and projects starting this autumn include:

1. Justice for Baby Lily campaign

The tragic, high-profile case which saw Carla Foster imprisoned, is being cynically exploited by the abortion lobby to decriminalise abortion in the UK totally.

The campaign is named after her unborn daughter, Lily. The goal is to end the deadly and dangerous abortion pills-by-post scheme that resulted in Lily’s death at eight months gestation.

2. Northern Ireland legal challenge

SPUC is going to court in a bid to stop the rollout of the Secretary of State’s radical abortion regime. The government has set an annual “abortion target” of 6,500 abortions for the Province.

3. Project Truth

This successful youth street outreach project generates thousands of conversations about abortion with the public every summer across Britain’s towns and cities.

Funding permitting, I would like Project Truth to visit university campuses too.

4. Heart -to-Heart

This new project will enlist the support of SPUC’s national branch and activist network to build on the public outreach already established by Project Truth.

The goal here is to take the pro-life message directly to the public, bypassing Big Tech and draconian laws (see below) which stop pro-lifers from speaking to women booked in for abortions and offering them eleventh-hour help to keep their baby.

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But right now, the biggest legislative threat facing unborn children this autumn is the Mackay Buffer Zone Bill currently before the Scottish Parliament.

SPUC has learned that Mackay Bill is receiving the backing of BPAS, the UK’s biggest killer of unborn children.

The BPAS (British Pregnancy Advisory Service) website states:


BPAS has been working closely with Gillian Mackay MSP, the grassroots campaign group Back Off Scotland, and legal counsel to bring this bill forward.

We have been campaigning to introduce buffer zones around the UK since 2014, and have repeatedly raised this issue with government and politicians in Scotland for at least 5 years.

Despite this, the Scottish government has declined to take action and we are now using the Member’s Bill process to take forward our own solution to this problem.


BPAS likes to claim they care about women.

But that claim is very hard to substantiate when…

1. BPAS's support for the Mackay Bill DENIES women attending clinics a “choice” to benefit from crucial lifesaving options that enable them to keep their babies

2. The ‘SAFETY’ record at their English clinics places women in DANGER time after time.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care and is responsible for inspecting abortion clinics in England.

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The CQC's latest report exposes serious leadership failings at BPAS

CQC inspectors carried out a two-day inspection of BPAS’s Warwickshire headquarters last February.

In its report, published on 1 June, CQC investigators concluded that “not all leaders had the necessary experience, knowledge, capacity, capability to lead effectively.”

BPAS leadership was described as:

* “… out of touch with what was happening on the front line and could not identify the risks and issues described by staff”.

This resulted in:

* “Risks, issues, and poor performance were not always dealt with appropriately or quickly enough”

* “… and there was a lack of clinical oversight and engagement in incident investigation and how individuals were held to account”.

This damning report wasn’t a one-off.

In November 2021, three BPAS clinics were put into “special measures” after the CQC highlighted serious concerns about patient safety and consent in Merseyside, Doncaster and Middlesbrough.

This CQC report detailed women being transferred to receive emergency care, being forced to travel hundreds of miles mid-procedure, and being given procedures they didn’t consent to.

There were even reports of women with learning difficulties being given abortions without proper consent.

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Key findings

In Doncaster, 12 patients were transferred to the local NHS acute trust due to complications between December 2020 to May 2021.

In Merseyside, between July 2020 and June 2021, the service transferred six patients in an emergency due to complications or the patient becoming unwell.

In Middlesbrough, five service users had to travel to another BPAS location in the North West at short notice for a surgical termination of pregnancy.

Space restricts me from giving a detailed account of the failings listed in this report.

This is just a small selection:

* “Staff did not always identify nor quickly act upon patients at risk of deterioration following a surgical procedure.” (Merseyside report)
* “The service did not always store medicines at safe temperatures and medicines issued for patients to take home were not correctly labelled.” (Middlesbrough report)
* “An incident occurred where the care of five women undergoing surgical abortion was not managed safely.

"The women were asked to make their own arrangements and travel to another BPAS clinic in the North West within 24 hours of expecting to have their treatment at BPAS Middlesbrough (we saw women travel up to 140 miles by car and four hours by train).

"The women took preparatory mifepristone at home before travelling to another BPAS location in the North West, putting them at risk of bleeding or aborting their pregnancy during the journey.” (Middlesbrough report)

Its Impact Statement & Annual Review for the year 2021/22 reports that BPAS was responsible for carrying out 90,789 abortions.
* Its income was £39,679,000, (which is around 16 times MORE than SPUC’s)

What’s more, BPAS does NOT need to worry about fundraising to survive:
* £39.6M of that came directly from government contracts and grants paid for by the taxpayer.

Will you consider giving £15 or £25 or £50 or £100 or £500 or £1,000 or £5,000 or more to help us defend babies this autumn and alert women to the serious HEALTH RISKS they run with abortion?

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John Deighan
Chief Executive

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