Dear Friend and Supporter,
Six days ago, a very special SPUC online appeal got underway.
Funds are urgently needed to help launch a major project to restore and uphold the fundamental rights of the people of Britain.
The “right to life” especially must be restored and protected. Ever since the introduction of the Abortion Act 1967, it has been a “sham” right, a right in name only.
I told you too how SPUC had funded 5-year-old Pippa Knight’s appeal case at the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court and that, tragically, the courts had ruled that Pippa’s life support must be switched off, effectively denying Pippa her right to life.
I want to personally thank each and every supporter who has responded to my call to fund Pippa’s appeal case.
The ruling has come as a big blow:
FIRST – It puts the right to life of disabled children under serious threat, giving the “right to life” article contained in the Human Rights Act 1998 a very hollow ring.
SECOND – The right of loving parents to do what they think is right for their children’s care is also very much endangered now.
THIRD – The court’s ruling further erodes and undermines the right to life, the “foundational” right upon which all other political and human rights rest.
But Pippa’s court ruling isn’t the only official decision we have been awaiting with trepidation this year.
Any day now, governments at Westminster, Holyrood and Cardiff will make decisions which will literally have thousands of unborn children’s lives hanging in the balance.
Thirteen months ago, Britain entered its first ever national lockdown.
It didn’t take the abortion industry long to exploit the Covid crisis which was unfolding then and demand DIY abortions for women at home.
Westminster caved in, then reversed its decision under pressure from pro-life groups, like SPUC, before once more flip-flopping and reinstating DIY abortion as an emergency “temporary” measure to placate the powerful abortion lobby.
One year on, and EVERY DAY 250 unborn babies in Britain are being destroyed by DIY abortions.
Not content with the huge death toll they have rung up, our opponents are now demanding that DIY abortions be made part and parcel of the “new normal” in Britain.
Ministers have said they are reviewing the policy and listening to all sides before deciding the future of DIY abortion in post-Covid Britain.
Big majority of doctors “concerned” about DIY abortion
To show politicians how bad an idea it would be to allow DIY abortions to continue, SPUC has invested £15,000 in nationwide polling research.
One of the surveys we commissioned shows that a large majority of GPs have serious misgivings about DIY abortion.
- More than eight-in-ten GPs (86%) say they are concerned about women at risk of being coerced into an abortion by a partner or family member with a telemedicine abortion appointment where the doctor has not seen the woman in person
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- Three-quarters of GPs (74%) say they are concerned about women finding it distressing potentially having to dispose of the terminated pregnancy either into a toilet or sanitary pads
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- The majority of GPs (57%) say they are concerned about women having a medical abortion at home after a phone or video consultation with a doctor.
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Turning homes into abortion centres
Better than anyone, doctors know first-hand how risky a DIY abortion can be for a woman’s health.
Over the past year, around 75,000 medical abortions have taken place in private homes around the UK – with NO in-clinic assessment, ultrasound scan or medical supervision.
A reply to a Freedom of Information request to the Department of Health and Social Care claims there had been just one recorded complication stemming from a DIY abortion.
However, data gathered from 17 NHS Hospital Trusts and 2 Ambulance Services by a coalition of pro-life groups, including SPUC, reveals a very different picture:
- 20 ambulance call-outs per month due to women in distress after taking the pills
- 495 women per month attending hospital due to incomplete abortion
- 250 women per month requiring surgical intervention to remove retained baby and or placenta tissue
- A complication rate of 7.5 per 1,000 (five times higher than the yearly average)
On seeing figures like these, you realise that the government is intent on destroying the sacredness of the home, a place where human beings enjoy love and protection, and turning it into a place full of danger for mothers and unborn children.
And it’s statistics like these which show just how callous and disingenuous the abortion lobby truly is.
Our opponents never tire of telling us how they champion women’s rights, but with DIY abortion clearly wrecking the health of so many women today, abortion rights would be better described as “bogus” women’s rights.
Will you join the fight to expose bogus rights and endorse authentic rights?
Will you donate £10 or £15 or £25 or even possibly £100 to help put an end to the flagrant abuse women and girls face from the home abortion DIY scheme.
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SPUC is committed to restoring and bolstering authentic human rights, like the right to life, for ALL members of the human family.
And until the laws of our land recognise the intrinsic value and worth of its weakest and most vulnerable members, a truly just world will NEVER be attained.
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John Smeaton
Chief Executive
P.S. Your involvement in this fight for a fairer, more just world truly matters.
Every penny raised this month will be put to work immediately to establish the authentic human rights of vulnerable people.
These are people who really need our protection, like little Pippa Knight, and her mum Paula, and the countless tiny lives who right at this moment in time are succumbing to the deadly attack directed at them by the government’s abhorrent DIY abortion scheme.
With YOU behind us, we can END abortion.
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