Relations with other pro-life groups

International

SPUC is an affiliate of the International Right to Life Federation, founded in 1984, and provides some of its officers. Delegates sponsored by the SPUC Educational Research Trust attending United Nations conferences work with pro-life and pro-family groups from around the world to promote the right to life of unborn children and the availability of good data on population and maternal and child welfare.

SPUC also liaises with pro-life lobbyists in Europe monitoring developments in the European Parliament.

The Guernsey-based Channel Islands Right to Life, formed to lobby in a place which is part of the United Kingdom but not under the Westminster legislature, is affiliated to SPUC. The groups in the Republic of Ireland and in New Zealand which use SPUC as their title are separate from the UK organisation.

SPUC is continuing to develop its international work, commensurate with the growing influence of international fora on national policy-making.

National

SPUC works closely with the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-life Group, and liaises with groups outside parliament as appropriate. The society is represented on the National Pro-Life Umbrella Committee, a forum for groups involved in campaigns against abortion, embryo experimentation and euthanasia to exchange information and, as appropriate, coordinate joint activities. The other principal groups in Britain are LIFE (whose primary focus is welfare assistance for expectant mothers and their children) and CARE (an Evangelical organisation campaigning on pro-family and pro-life issues).

SPUC also has contacts nationwide with organisations sympathetic to its ethos. The society enjoys cordial relations with a number of groups, such as Family and Youth Concern, which have different remits but certain concerns in common with SPUC. The society will liaise with other agencies as appropriate (including local pro-life pregnancy help centres) in meeting the needs of expectant mothers seeking assistance.