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AUTUMN Appeal - Just 3 Days Left
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Dear SPUC supporter
With just three days of our autumn appeal to run, another £29,828.36 is still urgently needed to reach our £100,000 target.
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The money is needed to fund:
- Life-saving political campaigns
- Critical legal challenges
- Vital pro-life community projects (one brand NEW).
In addition, other essential aspects of SPUC’s pro-life work require funding too.
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SPUC’s Schools programme: As well as abortion (including ‘home’ abortions and coercive abortion), topics like the development of new life in the womb, assisted suicide & euthanasia, and population control are examined from a pro-life perspective.
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(For instance, the Society’s educational outreach programme provides primary and secondary schools throughout the UK with pro-life literature and trained speakers who give presentations)
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1. The Justice for Baby Lily campaign
Seeks to END the pills-by-post scheme which is fuelling record numbers of abortions in the UK:
For instance, there were 197,533 abortions in England and Wales when ‘home abortion’ pill schemes were first sanctioned in the UK in 2017.
- Just 5 years later (2022), abortions in England and Wales leapt to a projected 251,396
- Latest official figures show that only around 1-in-5 UK abortions today are entirely carried out in a clinic or hospital where help is on hand should something go wrong.
Ambulance call-outs due to home abortions soared by 64% in 2020, the year the then ‘temporary’ pills-by-post scheme was introduced:
- Over 10,000 women who took abortion pills required hospital treatment in 2020 – 2.3% of the women were treated for haemorrhages (heavy bleeding)
- 70% of respondents to a consultation on DIY home abortion stated that the scheme should end immediately.
Despite this, MPs at Westminster voted to make the pills-by-post policy permanent in August 2022.
SPUC has launched one of its biggest campaigns in years, calling for this deadly and dangerous policy to be reversed immediately.
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2. Legal challenge to block Northern Ireland’s far-reaching United Nations-led abortion agenda
SPUC is going to court in a fresh bid to block the implementation of the Secretary of State’s radical abortion framework which seeks to carry out 6,500 abortions per year in the Province.
A 2018 report by the unelected (and unaccountable) UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was the catalyst and framework for legislation passed by the UK Parliament, back in 2019, that opened the floodgates for abortion in Northern Ireland.
As well as the decriminalisation of abortion, the CEDAW Recommendations have led to:
- A total ban on silent prayer vigils at abortion facilities which offer eleventh-hour help to women who may change their minds and choose to keep their baby.
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- A bid to make it compulsory for ALL schools (including Catholic ones) to tell pupils where to get an abortion, trampling on the rights of parents and opening up a generation of school children to radical pro-abortion propaganda.
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3. Scottish Censorship Zone Bill
The Bill would see pro-lifers face MASSIVE and draconian fines of over £10,000 for attending peaceful life-saving vigils.
4. Abortion Coercion
“Lydia” (not her real name) is a woman whose unborn child was aborted at close to 6 months after coming under enormous pressure to abort from a third party.
SPUC is funding Lydia’s legal bid to sue her abortion provider on two grounds:
FIRST: The abortion provider didn’t take adequate care of their client with regard to her mental health condition.
SECOND: The abortion provider breached her right to informed consent.
A BBC survey commissioned in 2022 suggested that thousands of women like Lydia undergo abortions they don’t want every year:
- 15% of UK women aged 18-44 said they had faced pressure to abort their unborn child when they did not want to, according to the survey
[Fifteen per cent would equate to as many as 111,000 women who come under pressure to abort their child every year in England and Wales alone.]
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5. Ending UK aid to China
According to the World Health Organisation, around 73 million abortions occur worldwide every year.
SPUC is drawing attention to the role of the British government in fuelling this holocaust with an investigative report which was presented in Parliament earlier this year.
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SPUC’s Complicit Report highlights evidence of coercive abortion in China:
- An undercover report by the BBC found that China’s many ‘family planning officials’ threaten women with physical force if they refuse abortions
- The minority Uyghur population appear to be being specifically targeted
- UK aid for China totalled around £82 million in 2019.
SPUC’s campaign calls on the UK government to immediately cut all aid to the Chinese government, and any other overseas aid recipients where coercive abortion policies are suspected.
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Will you give £10 or £25 or £50 or £100 or £250 or £500 or £1,000 or £2,000 or £5,000 or more to ensure that we can sustain the fight for unborn babies in ALL of these equally critical ways this Autumn?
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Thank you.
Unlike our opponents, SPUC doesn’t receive a single penny in Government funding or benefit from the support of the big corporations.
That’s why your support is so VITAL.
It’s what one day WILL make all the difference for unborn babies and their mothers.
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Yours in defence of life,
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