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Campaigns Archive
SPUC archive of recent campaigns
20 March 2012: international one day conference "Abortion or maternal health"
An international one day conference will be held on 20 March 2012 in London. Evey year an estimated 350,000 mothers die from pregnancy related causes. This is an international disgrace. The deadline for millenium development goal 5 (maternal health) is fast approaching, yet mothers are still dying. What can you and I do to bring this to an end? Join us to hear world experts on the subject as we propose strategies that will saves the lives of mothers and babies. > Full details and booking
Care Not Killing: evening fundraiser reception
Dr Peter Saunders, Campaign Director of the Care Not Killing Alliance (CNK) and Dr John Wiles, chairman of the Board of Directors will be detailing our plan for the next three years with information about how you can support us to face the challenges ahead.
Dorchester Library of the Royal College of Physicians
11 Saint Andrew's Place, London NW1 4LE
Thursday 8th March 2012, 6pm for 6.30pm
To attend: please email CNK your postal address so they can send a ticket to ensure admission to the event:
administrator@carenotkilling.org.uk or phone 020 7234 9680.
Link to official CNK event flyer
10 March 2012 Northern Ireland Conference: Defending the rights of parents - protecting children
Come along on Saturday 10th March to Belfast Castle to learn what can be done to help parents safeguard their families and why the promotion of birth control to underage children has got to stop. Speakers on the day include: Pat Ramsey MLA, Jim Wells MLA, Professor David Paton, Dr. Patrick Fagan, and Mrs. Antonia Tully.
- Cost is £15, includes buffet lunch. Concessionary rates for senior citizens and the unwaged is £8.
- To book, you may use our website shop, or download the booking form and return to us by post: SPUC Northern Ireland, 2 Veryan Gardens, Newtonabbey, BT36 7HG. Payment can be made by cheque, credit or debit card.
- The day starts at 10am. registration, tea and coffee from 9.30am.
- for further information contact SPUC N.Ireland belfast@spuc.org.uk or call 028-9077-8018
2-4 March 2012: 5th International Youth Conference
Fr Andrew Pinsent: Pro-Life Philosophy - Lynette Burrows: Sex Education in Schools - Professor David Paton: Teenage Pregnancy and Abstinence strategies - Dr Anne Carus: Family Planning and IVF - Sr Andrea Fraile: Abortion Counselling - Fiorella Nash: Pro-life Feminism - Fr John Fleming: Marriage and pro-life -
Dr Philip Howard: End of Life Care - Dr. Jacqueline Laing: Euthanasia and assisted suicide
Confirmed workshops. Anthony Ozimic: the effect of performing abortion on the abortionist - Joe Lee: How the law treats human life during its earliest stages
Participation at the conference is heavily subsidised by SPUC. Sponsorship places may also be available. Previous conferences, including photos, can be viewed here
Urge MEPs to vote against motion on abortion and HIV/AIDS
25 November 2011: On Thursday 1 December, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will vote on a motion which links abortion, contraception and HIV/AIDS. The motion is riddled with anti-life and anti-family content. Please contact the MEPs for your region immediately to urge them to vote against the motion. > More
Support big day of pro-life outreach in east London this Saturday
20 October 2011: This Saturday SPUC together with 40 Days for Life, and various local churches and mosques, will gather in Stratford, east London for what 40 Days for Life are calling “the biggest day of pro-life outreach in decades.”> More
Contact Council of Europe urgently to protect unborn children from discrimination
28 September 2011: Next week the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE, not to be confused with the European Parliament of the European Union (EU)) will consider a report which includes serious attacks on unborn children with sex-linked genetic disorders. Please contact your country’s delegates at PACE. > More
The Motherhood Campaign: better worldwide maternal health
Please see our motherhood campaign section on this website for an introduction. We held a public street exhibition and education drive from 27 June - 10th July, in central London, 1pm-5pm everyday.
University of Bristol students host SPUC talk
Mary Brennan, a SPUC member in Bristol, recently gave a presentation on abortion and disability, and raising her child who has Down's syndrome. This event was organised by Students for Life, a society of the University of Bristol Union. SPUC have been supportive of this group in several ways and will continue to do so. One fo the founding members, Anne Howard, was also an intern with SPUC last summer, and also represnted SPUC in its lobbying work at the United Nations. Read More
SPUC Young Adults at Lewisham People's Day
On Saturday 9th July a group of 11 Young Adults from the Lewisham borough area spent the day at Lewisham People's Day. They had 2 large stalls, pro-lfie displays, an abundance of materials to give away, along with free face painting for children. you can read a report with photos at our RSVP Pro-Life blog. Read More. Paul Smeaton, an employee of SPUC who was also part of the team, has written a good report of the day, which you can read on our blog. Read more
New SRE campaign bulletin 'fighting sex DVDs in schools'
SPUC have published their latest SRE campaign bulletin, focused on fighting the explicit and harmful sex DVDs being shown in schools. The new bulletin contains information on our petition, 'Living and Growing', informing parents, MPs, and the wider community about the harm being done to children, expert medical and legal facts, and the real life reactions of parents. Read the bulletin here
Please respond to government sex ed consultation
5 October 2011: The Department for Education is inviting people to participate in a consultation about sex and relationships education (SRE) in England – and I hope you will do so. (Those living outside England can also participate, but the consultation relates specifically to the National Curriculum for England.) The government have said that they are not going to make classroom SRE compulsory within the scope of this consultation. However, they do regard classroom SRE as a benefit. Therefore we need to express our objections to the kind of SRE that is widespread in schools today, and refer to evidence that it doesn’t have the beneficial impact that politicians often claim. Please read SPUC's briefing which includes all you need to know to make a submission. The deadline is 30 November. Please do act on this. Please also read our latest campaign bulletin on sex education with other action points. You may recently have signed or collected signatures for our national petition against explicit sex education lessons. I’m very grateful to all who have done this. Please do return any outstanding forms to SPUC HQ by 16 October, so we can present them to the Secretary of State.
Contact Council of Europe urgently to protect unborn children from discrimination
28 September 2011: Next week the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE, not to be confused with the European Parliament of the European Union (EU)) will consider a report which includes serious attacks on unborn children with sex-linked genetic disorders. Please contact your country’s delegates at PACE. > More
SPUC submission to BCAP over commercial abortion advertising
Read SPUC's submission to BCAP. Allowing commercial, abortion-providing/referring Post Conception Advisory Services (PCAS) to advertise on television immediately treats abortion „services‟ as if they were like any other service. Allowing advertisements for organisations whose aim and primary function is providing abortions is equivalent to allowing advertising for abortion itself. SPUC strongly opposes such moves.
Scouts sexual health programme
For an introdution to this campaign, please see National Director John Smeaton's blog post, with an analysis by SPUC's Educati on and Publications manager Anthony McCarthy. Details about this campaign have been sent to all our SPUC members via SPUC News, including action points.
Order SPUC's new sex ed campaign bulletin today
24 February 2011: We need to act now because anti-life sex education in our schools is priming young children for premature sexual activity, which leads to teenage pregnancies and abortions. Please read and order our new campaign bulletin. More
Chris Bryant MP SRE Bill
11 February 2011: Chris Bryant MP's bill to force schools to teach sex and relationships education (SRE)was not given parliamentary time today for a second reading in the House of Commons. The bill has been re-listed for Commons business in April. SPUC thanks its supporters for lobbying their MPs.
Update: The Bill did not receive it's second reading in April. The second reading has now been set of 21 October 2011. The monitoring of this bill and SPUC's lobbying of MPs on this matter forms part of SPUC's larger concern over the issue of SRE.
Government white paper approach to sex and relationships education (SRE)
26 November 2010: The government's approach to sex and relationships education included in the White Paper on Schools issued yesterday is deeply concerning (see media release). Email political@spuc.org.uk for more information and action points.
Help us protect children against TV condom adverts
SPUC is taking up the fight against TV condom adverts targeted at children, to protect all children and promote a culture of life. See our alert here.alert 7 October 2010
Abortion advertising
Channel 4 broadcasted an advertisement by Marie Stopes International, the abortion promoter and provider, on Monday evening at 10.10pm. Please act immediately to help stop these advertisements being aired again. Please read our alert. alert 21 May 2010 You can watch a short CBN News clip of SPUC Media manager Anthony Ozimic here
