Dear
SPUC supporter,
We are now within sight of our target. Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed so far.
Yesterday was a DARK DAY for Britain. We now live in a country where in some places – public (and possibly also even PRIVATE and SILENT) prayer is CRIME, punishable by an unlimited fine and even PRISON.
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How did we get here?
Many alive today can remember the abortion debates of the 1960s – how even David Steel himself intended the Act as a last resort, primarily to end back-street abortions.
57 years, and over ten and a half million abortions, later abortion is now seen as a ‘right’ and even as ‘healthcare’. Over one third of women in the UK have had or will have an abortion at some point in their lives. If people had said in 1967 that in the future people who prayed outside abortion centres would face prison and unlimited fines, no one would have believed them. But that is where we are.
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With this in mind. The Abortionists have decided to COMPLETELY CRUSH all dissent and to introduce what they always really wanted – abortion up to birth for any reason. But we will not let them get there. Keeping the voice of the voiceless alive in the coming months and years will require us to WORK SMART from both inside and outside the culture – taking our message onto the streets and into the blogs and social media platforms which manufacture consent. With this in mind I have three amazing initiatives to tell you about:
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1. Resisting censorship from the grassroots up with cultural initiatives such as Project Truth Alumni Network
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Project Truth is the UK's largest pro-life youth outreach initiative.
A team of dedicated young people have been courageously taking the pro-life message directly to the British public for 10 years.
The project is all about bringing home the truth about abortion. So often the devastating FACTS about abortion remain hidden because a small but vociferous minority are holding sway in influential institutions and professions.
To mark TEN years of activity the Project Truth Alumni Network (estimated cost £30K pa) was launched on 21 September.
- Hundreds of highly skilled and motivated past team members from the UK and Ireland are being given the opportunity to continue with their involvement in the pro-life movement
- Alumni include several doctors, lawyers, teachers, journalists and religious … people ideally placed to influence the culture for the better.
2. Write for Life is another grassroots cultural project that launched this autumn
Write for Life Academy is a joint initiative of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC) and the BardSchool.
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Last month, a series of Activation Days were held across Britain to encourage creative grassroots enterprises that challenge the culture of death through the telling of powerful pro-life stories via comedy, poetry, plays and films.
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3. Encouraging pan-European pro-life collaboration
I am also coordinating our work with pro-life colleagues overseas.
In September, I spoke at the German March For Life event in Cologne, while my colleague, Emmet Dooley, SPUC’s education manager [pictured below], addressed 40,000 marchers at the Slovakian March for Life.
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By pooling our resources and ideas and sharing our experiences in this way the whole Pro-life Movement is benefitting from a bigger presence and stronger voice notwithstanding our opponents’ best efforts to silence us.
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I once asked a committed SPUC supporter what it was that made him make such financial sacrifices. His answer was a revelation to me – he said, “ANGER” (!). When we see a terrible injustice being done, it is normal to feel anger, but this must be channelled into the actions and learning which build a movement of HOPE. Only with such a movement will we finally shift the debate in this country.
Please, if you can, help us to get there!
Thank you so much for your care for the weakest in society.
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John Deighan
Chief Executive
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