How Did Pro-life Political Lobbying Begin In Britain?

The "Pro-Life" movement in Britain first emerged in 1966 when the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) was founded to oppose Lord Steel's private members bill designed to make abortion legal in certain circumstances. The Abortion Act was passed on 27th October 1967 and was implemented on 27th April 1968. Since then, there have been over 6 million terminations performed in the UK. SPUC remains the largest and most active pro-life political lobbying group, opposing not only abortion, but other "attacks on innocent human life" such as euthanasia, assisted suicide, human cloning, embryo research and in-vitro fertilisation.

Other national pro-life lobbying groups, such as Right to Life, ProLife Alliance (which was, for a time, a political party) and Comment of Reproductive Ethics, have emerged since the mid 1990s. The charity LIFE also encourages its supporters to campaign on pro-life issues whilst carrying out its main function of care and support for pregnant women and their babies.