Summer Appeal
17 - 27 August
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A huge “Thank You” to every single one of you who has contributed to SPUC’s work this month.
An amazing £59,369 has been raised so far.
Another £21,631 would push us over the line and secure the funding that is so urgently needed to:
1. Fund a last-ditch bid in the courts to STOP the UK Government rolling out its radical abortion regime in Northern Ireland, and help save an estimated 6,000 unborn babies each year.
2. Launch SPUC’s new VISION which is aiming to make abortion “unthinkable” in the same way that other major social injustices – like slavery – have been.
3. Protect the free speech rights which are the cornerstone of the pro-life movement when the the Freedom of Speech Bill comes before Parliament next month.
One more big push today would get us over the line.
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Dear Friend and Supporter,
Sadly, today is the last time that I shall appeal for your support as CEO of SPUC.
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After 25 years in the post, and 47 years working for the Society, I would like to thank you personally for your tremendously loyal support.
It has been a wonderful privilege to lead the world’s first, and Europe’s largest, pro-life membership organisation.
Now l look forward to continuing my involvement in this great battle as a volunteer in my local SPUC Harrow branch in north London.
I hand over the reins to my successor, John Deighan, on 31 August.
John is currently CEO of SPUC Scotland, Managing Trustee of the SPUC Education and Research Trust, and has served as my deputy since 2019.
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John's vision for the future is a bold, powerful and extremely positive one.
Making abortion unthinkable
John is building an innovative strategy for SPUC which aims to bring people’s understanding of abortion closer and closer to our own whilst simultaneously inoculating them from our opponents' insidious propaganda.
This will involve adopting some of the latest methods and techniques to help shift attitudes on key social issues, however challenging that may be.
Historical examples John Deighan points to where major shifts in public attitudes have led to previously “unthinkable” changes in public policy occurring include:
- women’s suffrage
- abolition of slavery
- the growing acceptance of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) – which instrumentalises the human embryo and costs so many tiny lives – in the eighties and nineties.
More contemporary examples are homosexual “marriage”, and concern for animal welfare and the environment.
John will be leading SPUC in a campaign with the aim that abortion too can one day become illegal and unthinkable.
But no kind of breakthrough can happen without you.
Will you give £20 today to help shift the UK public over to the pro-life side?
What better way to start shifting the public’s support back in favour of unborn children than re-establishing their right to life in one corner of the UK?
In a few weeks’ time SPUC is going to court in a bid to block radical abortion roll-out plans in Northern Ireland and restore the right-to-life for unborn children there.
Our lawyers say that the bill for SPUC’s Northern Ireland judicial review case is likely to exceed £150K.
No other pro-life group is taking on these cases in the courts.
If we fail to act now we are likely to miss what will likely be the last chance to reverse an abhorrent abortion policy and save an estimated 6,000 unborn babies each year.
£182k is urgently needed to:
- Pay the outstanding legal fees from the recent Pippa Knight case.
- Ensure that the unborn children of Northern Ireland get the best possible legal advocates fighting on their behalf in the Belfast courts
- Replenish SPUC’s Legal Defence Fund so that whenever a threat to our unborn babies manifests itself – as it surely will - prompt action can be taken
These are just three reasons why I urge you to support SPUC’s summer fundraising appeal.
I have been truly amazed by the tremendous response so far.
An astonishing £59,369 has been raised.
Another £21,631 would see us hit our £81K summer appeal target and that would wipe the slate clean and place SPUC in a strong position to start working immediately towards John Deighan’s new vision.
Will you back SPUC’s NEW vision and help make abortion “unthinkable”?
If everyone reading this email today gave a gift of £20 we would be home and dry and off to a strong start.
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Pledging a regular gift of £5, £10, or £15 a month – or increasing your existing monthly gift by a similar amount – helps enormously too.
It really doesn’t matter at what level of support you can afford to give today. A pound here and a pound there soon adds up.
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Thank you sincerely for ALL that you have done in my time as SPUC CEO – and I am sure that you will continue to do under John Deighan’s leadership – to protect and uphold the dignity of every human life in our country.
Yours in defence of life
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John Smeaton
Chief Executive
PS – We know that some political causes that were unpopular and "unthinkable" in the past have been flipped on their heads and are now "popular" and public "policy".
Just think of the abolition of slavery.
My final message to you is to “keep faith”. That day, when we see a final victory for the unborn, WILL arrive.
Until then, I urge you to get fully behind a future vision where abortion is abolished and every human person enjoys real human rights with substance.
Every donation – big or small – moves us a step closer to that goal and ending the wicked scourge of abortion which is so horribly afflicting the UK today.
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