Babies need YOUR help at the Ballot Box in 2024

NEW YEAR Fundraising Appeal - Day 1
Dear
SPUC supporter,
SPUC must raise £100K to fight this year’s General Election on behalf of thousands of vulnerable UK unborn babies and their mothers.

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he expects to call a general election "in the second half" of 2024.

However, some commentators speculate that we will see a May election.

It's even possible it could happen sooner than that.

When the PM formally asks the King to "dissolve" Parliament – the official term for closing Parliament ahead of an election – polling day generally takes place 25 working days later.

That doesn’t give us much time.

It’s vital that we are ready and prepared to launch SPUC’s 2024 election campaign, whether the election is called early on or later.

At the dissolution of Parliament, MPs lose their status and have to campaign for re-election.

MPs who don't step down—along with new candidates competing against them—will be fully focused on securing as many votes as they can.

At that point, MPs will be extremely receptive to what their constituents have to say on topics such as abortion, and we must be ready to capitalise on this fully.

What will a general election hold for the unborn?

There can be no question that this Parliament has played a major role in the staggering rise in UK abortions in recent years.

FIRST: DIY home abortion was first introduced as policy on a temporary basis, then made permanent

As well as many more babies being killed, women undergoing DIY abortions are suffering at unprecedented rates too.

Independent health consultant, Kevin Duffy, has published shocking new research showing a massive increase in hospital treatment for DIY abortion complications:

* At least 39,000 women across England and Wales in the last five years have been treated at NHS hospitals for complications arising from failed or incomplete DIY medical abortions at home.

Freedom of Information Request applications to a number of NHS Trusts, Foundations and regional ambulance services reveal that:

* Ambulance callouts in England for post-abortion cases rose by 64% in 2020 – the year the DIY abortion scheme was introduced – while in Wales, they DOUBLED.

Meanwhile, complication rates from abortions have soared by more than FOURFOLD:

* 495 women attended hospitals each month (on average) for incomplete abortions, while 250 women a month required surgery to remove “retained products of conception".

SECOND: Abortion numbers in England and Wales have rocketed over the course of this Parliament

* In 2019, 207,384 abortions took place in England and Wales (then the highest number since the Abortion Act was introduced)

* Official figures for 2023 have yet to be released, but based on written evidence submitted to Parliament in November by Britain’s second-largest abortion provider, MSI Reproductive Choices, Kevin Duffy claims that we “can project a total of 325,000 abortions in 2023."

That’s a potential 117,000 ADDITIONAL unborn babies killed by abortion over the course of this Parliament


This would mean that 1-in-3 pregnancies now end in abortion, up from 1-in-4 just a few years ago (2019).

THIRD: Abortion has been greatly expanded in Northern Ireland too

Northern Ireland was once the safest place in the UK for unborn babies.

* From 2019-2020, abortions in Northern Ireland numbered just 22.

In 2019, Parliament passed the Northern Ireland Act, greatly expanding abortion law in the Province—despite 79% of Northern Ireland residents opposing its expansion.

* The Secretary of State of Northern Ireland now wants the public health service in the Province to facilitate 6,000 abortions every year.

We must start preparing for the Election NOW by:

1. Interviewing candidates

MPs in the next Parliament will be voting on life issues like assisted suicide and abortion decriminalisation.

It is vital that we elect as many pro-life MPs as possible.

We can only do this by supporters finding out the voting intentions of their candidates.

SPUC’s general election campaign will equip supporters with what they need to achieve this end.

This will entail:
* Launching a brand new SPUC website
* Producing materials for constituency candidate interviews
* Leaflets to distribute amongst friends, families and places of worship.

Estimated cost: £7,000

2. Advertising in key constituencies

Advertising is crucial for SPUC during a general election, as it lets us amplify our message, engage with voters and influence the political landscape.
Our advertising will:

* Engage voters - providing a platform for us to engage with them directly
* Influence political candidates - even pro-abortion MP Stella Creasy has shown awareness that "SPUC lobbies hard" – see below:

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* Advocate for policies - getting our message out into the public sphere and onto social media is crucial for advocating specific policies and encouraging voters to vote with their values
* Counter opposition - advertising allows us to provide a response to the hordes of pro-abortion influencers.

We need to be ready to launch a comprehensive advertising campaign the moment the election is announce.

Estimated cost: £10,000

3. Boosting SPUC’s Parliamentary activities

Last March, SPUC presented the findings of its investigation into UK government aid for countries complicit in forced abortions to MPs and Peers.

SPUC’s ‘Complicit’ Report found that:

* In 2020-21, China was given more than £60 million in UK aid
* SPUC’s investigation attracted wide media attention, including comprehensive coverage in the Daily Mail and on GB News.



Following the report’s publication, Senior Tory MP Tim Loughton called on the Government to 'end urgently' financial assistance to China.
SPUC’s Parliamentary team pictured with Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg MP and our CEO, John Deighan (centre right).

I would like to repeat this successful formula on the matter of PILLS BY POST DIY ABORTION, with a parliamentary campaign in the run-up to the General Election.

Estimated cost: £10,000

I can’t emphasise enough how vital it is to focus the attention of candidates on the humanity of the unborn child and the sharp rise in UK abortions and hospitalisations we are seeing of late.

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Much will hang on the outcome of the General Election.

The UK is experiencing Record numbers of Abortions
* An estimated 325,000 abortions were recorded in England and Wales alone last year.

That is 117,000 MORE unborn babies killed last year compared to 2019.


* The government has placed a ‘target’ figure of 6,000 abortions per year on the heads of Northern Ireland’s unborn children, where previously fewer than two dozen abortions took place there annually.

Hospitalisations from abortion complications have never been higher

* NHS data shows that around 495 women per month attended a hospital due to incomplete DIY home abortions.

250 of them required surgery to remove “retained products of conception".


We cannot allow the next Parliament to continue along this grim and deadly path.

Will you give £10 or £25 or £50 or £100 or £500 or £1,000, or £5,000 to help place the rights of unborn babies at the TOP of the political agenda at the 2024 General Election?

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With candidates desperate to gain (or re-gain) seats in the House of Commons, the run-up to a General Election provides an important opportunity for pro-life constituents to impress upon them the fundamental right to life of unborn children.

SPUC must raise £100K to make this possible.

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Thank you for helping to seek true justice for our babies and their mothers in 2024.

Yours in Defence of Life
John Deighan
​Chief Executive
PS – The Home Office is preparing “Guidance” on how buffer zones are policed in England and Wales.

Given that buffer zone legislation is now on the statute books (it was signed into law in May 2023), the Guidance will be “non-statutory” in nature.

The new “buffer zone” law:

* Radically undermines the right to free speech
* Harms vulnerable women by denying them opportunities to receive the help they may need to keep their babies
* Criminalises pro-lifers simply for offering a leaflet about how to obtain that help.

Nevertheless, the Guidance is important because it appears to be concerned with the “spirit” of the law and how it should be interpreted “in practice” by the police.

In this respect, the new Guidance represents a crucial victory, not least because it appears the Government recognises important considerations put forward by the pro-life side, which could make the application of the new law less draconian in practice.

For instance, last month’s Government’s public consultation on the Guidance does not consider...

1. That the provision of information or the offering of help as “influence” constituting an offence under Section 9 (s2.5) of the law
2. That a woman’s right to engage with a pro-life person and to receive charitable support is recognised
3. That the legal protection of prayer is recognised
4. That no one should be criminalised for their thoughts.

This is a testament to the work of SPUC’s political department, which has been at the forefront of the campaign against buffer zones in the UK from the outset.

However, Scottish buffer zone threat still remains.

SPUC’s focus now turns to Scotland, where The Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill has been introduced by Scottish Green Party MSP, Gillian Mackay.

The Scottish buffer zone Bill has been described as the “most extreme abortion buffer zone legislation in the world” as it proposes to:

* Impose an exclusion zone that could be extended without limit and even reach into people’s homes, which may make it illegal to display a pro-life sign within a church or within a person’s private residency if visible within the zone
* Impose a fine of £10,000 on a summary conviction on anyone who commits an offence, or an unlimited fine on indictment.

The pro-abortion group leading the push for Scottish buffer zones — Back Off Scotland — is sponsored and promoted by BPAS, Britain’s biggest abortion provider.

I hope that you can see how one-sided this battle is and how YOU, with your profound love for the unborn, are all that stands between life and death for our babies in 2024.

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