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New CEO of Society for the Protection of Unborn Children assesses the U.K.’s pro-life landscape.
As of Sept. 1, Britain’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has a new CEO: John Deighan.
Founded in 1967, SPUC is the oldest pro-life campaigning and educational organization in the world. Its founding coincided with the British abortion bill being then debated in Parliament. That bill would go on to become the 1967 Abortion Act. It remains the basis of abortion provision in Great Britain.
On Oct. 8, the Register caught up with Deighan to find out what’s next for Britain’s oldest pro-life charity and to ask if the pro-life cause in the United Kingdom is “a lost cause.”
“I don’t think it can be definitively lost because it has truth and goodness on its side,” replied Deighan, before adding, “But there is no doubt that the field is strongly tilted against us.” That said, he sees today’s U.K. as “a very hostile environment” for pro-lifers, seeing the chief challenge being a society where “many have been radicalized to oppose instinctively the pro-life position.” This, he senses, has occurred largely, but not exclusively, through national institutions across society that have “been captured by ideologues with their own secular ‘religion,’ which has abortion as a sacred tenet.”
Continued below.
Abortion: ‘A Terrible Trade in Lies, Misery and Death Exists in Society’
As of Sept. 1, Britain’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has a new CEO: John Deighan.
Founded in 1967, SPUC is the oldest pro-life campaigning and educational organization in the world. Its founding coincided with the British abortion bill being then debated in Parliament. That bill would go on to become the 1967 Abortion Act. It remains the basis of abortion provision in Great Britain.
On Oct. 8, the Register caught up with Deighan to find out what’s next for Britain’s oldest pro-life charity and to ask if the pro-life cause in the United Kingdom is “a lost cause.”
“I don’t think it can be definitively lost because it has truth and goodness on its side,” replied Deighan, before adding, “But there is no doubt that the field is strongly tilted against us.” That said, he sees today’s U.K. as “a very hostile environment” for pro-lifers, seeing the chief challenge being a society where “many have been radicalized to oppose instinctively the pro-life position.” This, he senses, has occurred largely, but not exclusively, through national institutions across society that have “been captured by ideologues with their own secular ‘religion,’ which has abortion as a sacred tenet.”
Continued below.
Abortion: ‘A Terrible Trade in Lies, Misery and Death Exists in Society’
