For the second time in less than a week, the Government has officially sanctioned deadly DIY Home Abortions.
The abortion industry is exploiting a national crisis
While society as a whole is focused on fighting Coronavirus and saving lives, the Secretary of State for Health has succumbed to the deadly demands of 13 powerful abortion bodies.
Among them were the Royal College of Midwives. So too was Britain’s biggest abortion provider, BPAS, who last year were directly responsible for the killing of 87,000 unborn babies in this country.
The US abortion politician, Rahm Emanuel, famously stated that a national crisis presents an unmissable opportunity to plan for your future.
That is exactly what the UK abortion industry has done.
BPAS will undoubtedly profit from this tragic development, as they always do.
But what about the women?
DIY abortion is horrendous for women
It is equivalent to a backstreet abortion in the house.
It is dangerous.
No medical supervision is on hand should things go wrong.
Which it will:
Haemorrhaging – a leading factor in maternal deaths – is considerably higher among women undergoing medical abortion
That’s why SPUC has instructed its legal team to examine the new measure with a view to instigating judicial review proceedings against the Department of Health.
Unlike the government, SPUC’s pockets are not deep. Yet a costly courtroom challenge to stop DIY abortions may be unavoidable.
And I can assure you, undertaking such a step at a time of such economic uncertainty has not been done lightly.
But what price a baby’s life?
We can only contemplate such action because we have walked this road before with your help.
Like when SPUC took the Government to court in 2002 to stop chemists selling abortion-inducing morning-after pills over-the-counter.
Though we lost, this legal action saw the government delay its deadly scheme. No question, it saved lives.
And when the Society took on BPAS in 2011, and won.
SPUC fought against letting women take abortion drugs at home and thereby simply moving abortions out of the clinics and back onto the streets.
On that occasion, the judge decided against BPAS.
And in 2014, when SPUC backed two Glasgow midwives all the way to the Supreme Court in their long-running battle against their NHS employers.
Although the judges finally ruled against the midwives, this challenge could go down as the landmark case for upholding the ‘conscientious objection’ rights of all medical workers who find themselves pressured into involvement with abortion at work.
Connie Wood (L) and Mary Doogan (R) lost their jobs for refusing to supervise late-term abortions on an NHS maternity ward.
And in 2019, when SPUC Scotland took the Scottish Government to court after it rolled out home abortions in Britain for the first time.
Legal action delayed the implementation of home abortions in England and Wales, where an estimated 17,000 babies were saved as a result.
How to help:
Today we are on day 8 of our 11-day campaign, but less than 40% of our fundraising target of £250,000 has so far been raised.
That’s the amount the stand united together campaign must raise over the next four months to keep SPUC fighting on behalf of our babies during this crisis.
Even by giving just £10 today, you will still be standing united together with our unborn children.
If there is a collapse in funding, Britain’s principal pro-life grassroots campaigning group will be seriously weakened. God forbid, SPUC could even find itself derailed altogether.
The situation is that serious.
Should that happen, unborn babies would lose a powerful advocate, our opponents will exploit this crisis even further, and more innocent BABIES WILL DIE.
It is abhorrent that at this time of grave national crisis when our NHS is fighting for every life, the weakest and most vulnerable in our society - unborn children - are being targeted in this cruel way.
We are counting on you, at this late hour, to help us reach this goal. We simply cannot continue this battle without you.
Will you stand by SPUC, so SPUC can stand by our babies?
No matter what direction the current crisis takes, your support today will guarantee unborn children will NOT be abandoned in the dark days ahead.
Yours in defence of life, John Smeaton Chief Executive
PS: If you, or someone you know in the pro-life family, are isolated and would appreciate a call from one of our team—do let us know. Requests can be made by replying to me personally today.
Let’s do all we can to remain Standing United Together at a time when being with others we love and care about is proving so difficult for so many of the SPUC family.
