Aims

Alison Davis, the National Co-ordinator of NLH, has spina bifida. As well as her work for SPUC, she runs Enable (Working in India) a charity supporting disabled children in India. She is pictured here with one of the children cared for by the charity.

To promote the equal status, worth and rights of disabled people, including the most fundamental right of all - the right to life, from conception to natural death.
To monitor, research and to produce factual information with a view to opposing measures designed to end the lives of disabled people, including pre-natal screening tests which aim to detect and eliminate unborn disabled babies, the sedation and starvation to death of new-born disabled babies (often euphemistically referred to as "allowing to die") and euthanasia.
To promote greater understanding of the causes and effects of disabling conditions, and to promote research projects aimed at preventing the occurrence of disabling conditions.
To provide advice and information for women expecting a disabled baby.
To challenge the contemporary philosophy that disabled people are "better off dead".