JOHN SMEATON, DIRECTOR OF SPUC: Help to block abortion in Europe

Further to my recent post urging you to help block the Council of Europe endorsing abortion Europe-wide, I am happy to be able to provide you with two in-depth briefings to help you when writing to members of the Council's Parliamentary Assembly. The first briefing, produced by SPUC, is entitled Abortion law and the Council of Europe and can be downloaded as a PDF at http://www.spuc.org.uk/pace1.pdf The second briefing, produced by the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute (SCBI), is entitled Response to draft report on abortion by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men and can be downloaded as an PDF at http://www.spuc.org.uk/response.pdf Both of these briefings plus our original alert can be found on our Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe campaign page http://www.spuc.org.uk/pace

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.

Sunday, 6 April 2008

Help to block abortion in Europe