JOHN SMEATON, DIRECTOR OF SPUC: BREAKING NEWS: Pro-life victory as European Parliament votes to send pro-abortion report back to committee

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

BREAKING NEWS: Pro-life victory as European Parliament votes to send pro-abortion report back to committee

In a pro-life victory, the European Parliament voted today to send the pro-abortion Estrela report back to committee. Anti-family lobbyists are complaining about "intense lobbying" by pro-life/pro-family groups, so well done to all those SPUC supporters who lobbied their MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) prior to today's vote. (See our action alert of 16 October for what was contained in the Estrela report.)

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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.