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Summer Fundraising Campaign - Day 8
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TODAY IS DAY 8 OF SPUC’S SUMMER ONLINE APPEAL.
THANK YOU for playing your part in raising an outstanding £23,320 in just 8 days!
That leaves £26,680 of our £50K summer online fundraising target left to raise, which will secure SPUC’s key strategic objectives for the latter part of 2022.
Will you give £20 – £200 – £2,000 – £5,000, or whatever level of donation is right for you today, to help unborn babies (and their mothers) escape the horror of abortion?
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Dear Supporter,
They say that abortion is all about “rights” and “choice”.
But the abortion industry fanatics have made clear that they don’t care about the rights and choices of unborn babies.
It’s all about women’s rights and choices - or so they say.
But do they even care about women's rights?
The evidence suggests that they do not.
A recent independent poll of UK doctors commissioned by SPUC found that a staggering 86% of GPs said that they were “concerned about the risk of women being coerced into DIY abortions.”
Other researchers (pro and anti-abortion) accept that coercion is a significant factor in abortion decisions:
- A recent BBC survey found that 15% of all women of childbearing age experience pressure and coercion to have abortions.
- A study in the General Hospital Psychiatry journal said that coercion accounts for 25% of abortions.
- The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute place it even higher, admitting that 30% of women have abortions because someone other than the woman wants it.
And yet the struggling Vice Media – in a recent hit-piece against SPUC – claimed that their “experts believe” that we are “falsely inflating the issue” of coercion.
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Katherine O'Brien of BPAS.
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In a similar vein, Katherine O’Brien – an employee at BPAS, the UK’s biggest killing operation – has the gall to say that SPUC and pro-lifers are “extreme ideologues with an indifference to truth”.
O’Brien also said that it was “simply untrue” that abortion can have serious and life-long consequences for women.
Given that the pro-abortion lobby denies the harm that abortion can do to women, is it surprising that they also deny the extent of coercive abortion?
The reality is that the abortion lobby is terrified about their secret getting out – that 25%-30% of their income could be coming from coerced abortions, if the BBC and the Guttmacher Institute are right in their estimates.
While they could be reaping the profits of coerced abortion, it’s certainly left to SPUC and the pro-life movement to pick up the pieces.
SPUC’s sister organisation, Abortion Recovery Care and Helpline (ARCH), says that 3-in-4 callers were put under pressure when they had their abortion.
And what’s more, ever since DIY abortion was introduced, our phones have been ringing more than ever before. Incoming calls to ARCH are 600% higher than before the 2020 lockdown.
We urgently need to expand our public outreach to ensure that no woman has an abortion, which could have been prevented if she had received more information and more support.
There are just SO MANY women (and men) hurt by abortion whom we need to help, and the only thing holding us back is resources.
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Abortion coercion can take many forms
Let me tell you some more about the problem of coercion – and what SPUC is doing to address it.
Coercion can be blatant and violent – but a lot of the time, we’re talking about more subtle, insidious, pressure.
This pressure can come from a partner who doesn’t want a child…
… or a parent, who doesn’t think a daughter is responsible enough for a child…
… or those who think it will bring shame on the family…
… or because a relationship will be revealed that someone wants to keep hidden…
… or because a woman has been trafficked into prostitution or modern human slavery…
… or because an employer has made subtle comments about employability or costs of maternity pay…
Shockingly, pressure can even come from medical staff – particularly in cases where a child has been diagnosed with a disability in the womb. Abortion is then presented as the “humane” choice.
Sometimes the “coercer” doesn’t even realise that what they’re doing is abusive.
But an innocent baby still dies, and a mother is still wounded forever.
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What is the Government doing about it?
Instead of taking steps to protect women from abortion coercion, the Government recently made things worse by making DIY home abortion a permanent fixture of UK life.
Before DIY abortion, pregnant women had a chance to speak to a medical professional ALONE.
Private, face-to-face appointments in a clinical setting give medical professionals a chance to speak to women without any potential abuser present – whether it be an abusive parent, partner or even pimp or slave-master.
DIY telemedicine abortion DEPRIVES a woman of this support.
When an appointment is on a screen, the medical professional can’t see what’s going on out of the camera’s view.
If she is never seen on her own in a clinical setting, her abuser can be present and in control at every stage of the abortion process.
She will not be provided with a single opportunity to alert someone to her abuse.
NOT A SINGLE OPPORTUNITY.
In the name of making abortion appear “convenient,” “normal,” and “safe”, this new policy abandons the most vulnerable women.
Coerced abortion demonstrates that the “pro-choice” movement doesn’t value “choice” at all.
Abortion can have serious and lifelong consequences
The abortion industry do not want SPUC to tell you about how serious the problem of abortion coercion is. Just now I mentioned the shocking remarks of BPAS’s Katherine O’Brien, who alleged:
"[SPUC spreads] abortion myths, suggesting that ending a pregnancy can have ‘serious and lifelong consequences’ for women. This is simply untrue."
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Try telling that to Hayley. Hayley was forced by her abusive boyfriend to have an abortion when she was just 16. She writes:
"I found out that I was pregnant when I had just turned 16. Of course, Scott didn't want to hear about it. He demanded that I have an abortion.
“The abuse started again. He would go between sweet nothings and trying to run me over with his car. I really wanted my baby, but in that moment, I felt like I needed him more."
When Hayley went to the abortion clinic, it was clear she didn’t want to be there. But the clinic staff ignored many signs of abuse and proceeded with the abortion anyway. She writes of that day:
"A counsellor had to see me. I told her that I couldn't speak to her because, if I did, I would change my mind. She sent me back to the waiting room. I was crying so hard.
“The nurse was stroking my hair and saying, ‘It will all be ok’.
“The last thing I said before I went to sleep was, ‘no, it won’t. Nothing will ever be ok again."
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The coercion-denying abortion empire wants to silence women like Hayley.
But now Hayley is standing up to tell her story so that she can shine the light of truth on abortion coercion.
She is speaking out to protect other young women from the abuse she suffered and to protect innocent babies from abortion.
Hayley is able to have a platform to tell her story because of SPUC’s project, HER VOICE.
Her Voice is SPUC’s platform for women to share their stories.
It arose out of our work with ARCH. Some of the women who were being helped felt that speaking openly to the world about the damage inflicted by abortion allowed them to take new ownership of their healing.
Others, like Ellie, found healing in helping other women see that “abortion is not solving [their] problems. It’s making them worse.”
By telling their stories, these women can truly experience that their feelings about abortion are legitimate.
We URGENTLY need to get these stories in front of politicians, doctors, and other influential members of society.
But scaling up such projects comes with significant costs.
We need to produce an expanded portfolio of books, pamphlets, briefings and videos to share the stories of these brave mothers.
We are producing sensitive, age-appropriate versions for older students who are at risk of being directed towards abortion at school.
And we need to get these projects completed QUICKLY to equip teachers, doctors and politicians with the life-saving information which they need.
Estimated cost: £20,000
Will you magnify the voices of women like Hayley and Ellie against the abusive Abortion Empire, with a donation of £30, £50 or £100 today?
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Protecting women in the courts
Everyone knows that “SPUC lobby hard”, as pro-abortion MP Stella Creasy admitted breathlessly a few weeks ago.
In fact, lobbying is SPUC’s speciality. We are known and feared for our ability to pursue justice in the courts.
Many innocent victims of the Abortion Empire have been defended because SPUC donors provided the essential funding for their cases.
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This includes the “Glasgow Midwives”, Mary Doogan and Connie Wood, above.
It includes thousands of babies who we estimate were saved from abortion because SPUC delayed the implementation of home abortion in England and Wales for a year.
We are currently fighting a last-ditch attempt to stop the radical abortion regulations in Northern Ireland. The judgment in this case is due in October.
We are also willing to assist women who feel that they have been victims of abortion coercion. We will hold negligent abortion facilities, doctors and other parties to account in the courts.
As awareness of the coercion scandal grows, we expect more women to come forward to share what they have suffered and seek justice in the courts.
Estimated costs: £50,000
Will you help SPUC continue our fight for justice in the courts, and ensure that we stand ready to help women in need?
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Our long-term vision is taking shape and progressing exactly as it should.
Our abortion coercion awareness campaign is an important component in achieving SPUC’s long-term goal of making abortion in the UK unthinkable.
Deeply entrenched social views CAN be changed through effective campaigning and educational work – not to mention legal action.
Just ask William Wilberforce.
Reaching out and building a strong, unified pro-life coalition, composed of people from different cultural and political backgrounds who share our vision, will be essential.
So too will inspiring key professionals who can help effect change in their own spheres of influences, e.g., in the world of medicine, academia, journalism and politics.
The cost-of-living crisis is making raising money to defend our unborn babies much more difficult.
Over the last few months, SPUC’s income has dropped significantly. In fact, ever since Covid, fundraising has become uncertain and unpredictable.
Why Direct Debit donations are so helpful
Donations paid from your bank account each month remain unaffected by world events ensuring that vital pro-life projects like the Abortion Coercion Awareness Campaign are not pushed off course or cancelled altogether.
(Our bank also charges a little less to process Direct Debit contributions than it does for one-off donations, so more of your money goes into the fight for our babies).
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I know that monthly donations aren’t for everyone.
One-off donations remain the bread and butter of SPUC’s work and we simply could not do without them.
Individual donations, in the range of £20 to £100, make up the majority of our income each year.
It’s marvellous single donations like these that ensure that our work representing the unborn in schools, in Parliament, in the media, and in the courts can continue.
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We know that for many people these are tough times, but whatever level of support you can manage today, pleased be assured that we will use it carefully for our babies during the months ahead.
THANK YOU.
Yours in defence of life,
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John Deighan
Chief Executive
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PS: For decades, the abortion lobby has stood on the foundation of “choice”.
But the “my body, my choice” mantra is proving to be hollow.
How much choice does a woman have when she has no choice at all?
Your financial support helps us to expose abortion coercion for the atrocity it truly is.
Our projects spread the truth that abortion was never really about a woman’s “choice”.
By donating to SPUC, you are undermining the very foundation of the pro-abortion position – and one day, sooner than you might think, the whole apparatus of their killing machine will collapse.
So far this summer campaign has raised £23,320. But if we want to sanction the life-saving projects I have been outlining, we need to raise at least another £26,680 in order to reach our target of £50,000.
Will you help us reach that today?
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