Pro-life woman injured in unprovoked attack on SPUC Project Truth stall in Dundee

01 August 2023

An elderly pro-life woman was knocked over and injured during an attack on SPUC’s Project Truth stall in Dundee last week. SPUC has condemned the unprovoked attack.

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Abortion, SPUC, Scotland, Project Truth

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Buffer Zones Consultation: ACT NOW to stop pro-life vigils in Scotland being banned

09 August 2022

The deadline for submissions on the introduction of buffer zones to Scotland is fast approaching. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) is calling on any supporters who haven’t yet registered their objections to buffer zones to take part in the consultation exercise before it closes at 11.59 pm on 11 AUGUST.

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Scottish Government recruits “abortion guru” to push buffer zones through Holyrood

15 March 2022

The Scottish Government is recruiting a high-level civil servant to take the lead on abortion policy, including the imposition of buffer zones. The position, with a salary of up to £62,000, has been slammed by SPUC as an “outrageous and undemocratic use of taxpayers’ money”.

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Scottish Government Consultation: Majority of Scots share pro-life concerns over safety of DIY abortion

23 June 2021

Press Release: Pro-life concerns for the safety of women performing DIY abortions are shared by a majority of Scots who responded to the Scottish Government’s consultation on Future Arrangements for Early Medical Abortion at Home, says the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.

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“Anti-life” SNP pledges to assess assisted suicide if re-elected

07 April 2021

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has pledged to hold a Citizens Assembly which would review the legalisation of assisted suicide in Scotland if the party is re-elected in the May elections.

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Pro-abortionists in Edinburgh will “undermine free speech and fail women” with buffer zone

26 February 2021

Pro-abortion campaigners in Edinburgh will “undermine free speech and fail women” if they succeed in imposing a buffer zone outside the city’s abortion facility. Margaret Akers, SPUC Campaign Research Officer, said: “Recent attempts to ban pro-life vigils outside abortion providers in Scotland are unjustified. Not only would such a ban undermine freedom of speech, but it would fail women as well.”

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Abortion, Buffer Zones, Abortion Clinic, Scotland, Freedom of Speech, Edinburgh

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SPUC urges Edinburgh council to axe petition littered with unsubstantiated claims

22 February 2021

SPUC has warned Edinburgh council chiefs that a petition calling for ‘buffer zones’ around abortion clinics makes a series of unsubstantiated allegations which have been contradicted by Police Scotland, NHS Lothian and the council itself.

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Abortion, DIY Home Abortion, Scotland

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“Intolerant attack on pro-lifers” by Humanist Society Scotland seeking to suppress free speech

25 January 2021

SPUC has condemned the Humanist Society Scotland for pushing the Scottish Government to ban pro-lifers from offering help to women outside abortion clinics, calling the move a “vicious and intolerant attack on free speech for pro-lifers.”

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“Support is available” says Alma Mater Fund as UK Uni ‘discriminates’ against pregnant student

22 January 2021

The Alma Mater Fund, an initiative of SPUC Scotland, which provides support to pregnant and parenting students, has stressed that “support is available” after a UK university was accused of discriminating against pregnant students.

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DIY home abortion could lead to coercion 84% of concerned Scots say

07 January 2021

84% of the Scottish public are concerned that DIY home abortion could result in women being coerced into having an unwanted abortion, new polling has revealed.

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Overwhelming majority of Scots concerned about “barbaric” DIY abortion in major opinion poll

06 January 2021

An overwhelming majority of the Scottish public have expressed concerns about the Government’s “barbaric” DIY home abortion programme.

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