JOHN SMEATON, DIRECTOR OF SPUC: SPUC attacks hypocrisy of IVF pioneer over eugenics warning

Tuesday 19 March 2013

SPUC attacks hypocrisy of IVF pioneer over eugenics warning

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SPUC attacks hypocrisy of IVF pioneer over eugenics warning
SPUC has attacked as hypocritical comments by Professor Lord (Robert) Winston warning about eugenics. Lord Winston was due to say in a lecture that people should be "on guard against" a resurgence of eugenics due to outdated controls on reproductive technology. John Smeaton, SPUC director, told the Scotsman newspaper:  “Dr Robert Winston is the prophet of the reproductive technology industry and what he does is sound a very hypocritical note and tone of alarm about such developments and then we find a few months later he says there’s nothing to worry about. He positions himself as a responsible scientist, then, at the same time, he is a champion of the reproductive industry with its ‘create and discard’ attitude to human life. For every birth using IVF, 23 foetuses are rejected, discarded or used in experiments, those are totally unique human beings. This is part and parcel of the control scientist seek over human life, and I am not at all surprised by this development.” [Scotsman, 18 March]

Other stories:

Abortion

Abortionist Kermit Gosnell “routinely cracked jokes about babies whose necks he had just slit” [NRL, 18 March]
Abortionists agree – abortion is killing [NRL, 18 March]

Euthanasia

Care staff dismissed elderly as 'lost causes', finds inspection [Telegraph, 19 March]
Belgium becomes world leader in organ removal after euthanasia [Peter Saunders, 16 March]

Population

Britain unprepared for inversion of demographic pyramid, warns parliamentary committee [Peter Saunders, 16 March]

Sexual ethics

Scottish church hounded from hotel over opposition to gay marriage [Christian Institute, 19 March]
Crucial difference between infertile heterosexual union and impotent homosexual unions, argues writer [Mercator.net, 19 March]
If two lesbians, why not two sisters? [Mercator.net, 18 March]
Membership falls 35% at local Tory group over gay marriage [Christian Institute, 11 March]

General

Software company refuses service to pro-life group over abortion, marriage views [LifeSiteNews.com, 18 March]

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About Me

I became involved in SPUC after graduating, when I established a branch in south London in 1974. I have worked full-time for SPUC for 42 years. I became chief executive of SPUC in the UK in 1996, having been general secretary since 1978. I was elected vice-president of International Right to Life Federation in 2005. At UN conferences in Cairo, Copenhagen, Beijing, Istanbul and Rome, I helped coordinate more than 150 pro-life/pro-family groups resulting in pro-life victories in Cairo, Istanbul and Rome. I was educated at Salesian College, London, before going to Oxford where I graduated in English Language and Literature. I qualified as a teacher, becoming head of English at a secondary school. I am married to Josephine. We have a grown-up family and we live in north London.