SPUC

SPUC Scotland chief executive John Deighan said they were "greatly saddened" by the ruling.

Paul Tully, SPUC's general secretary, said: "Abortion is an appalling ordeal for women, as well as the killing of an unborn child.

John Smeaton, SPUC's national director, said: "The key to explaining the rising trend is found in documents like Recommended Standards for Sexual Health Services, drawn up by a coalition of pro-abortion advocates and abortion providers and endorsed by the government in 2005.

Marileine Ollerenshaw, North East development officer for SPUC, said: "It is important to remind people about the Abortion Act, which made it legal to have a termination.

"SPUC is writing to Tony Blair to ask him whether he has repented of the anti-life positions he has so openly advocated throughout his political career."

Members from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) will hold hands to form a chain of people and carry placards displaying anti-abortion messages.

The SPUC condemned Prof Wilmut's plans and described them as immoral.

Supporters of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) were marking the 35th anniversary of the implementation of the Abortion Act.

Here we look at the antiabortion lobby to show how the core group, Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC), has spawned a number of supporting, yet diverse anti-abortion groups which tend to operate at the margins of the controversy.

I remember watching this after one of the many setbacks we suffered this year and then shouting round the office "there may come a day when SPUC fails, BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY!".

Anti-abortion group SPUC say they are consulting lawyers and chief executive John Deighan claims Scottish ministers may have "recklessly exceeded their powers".

Paul Botto, Secretary SPUC Cardiff/Penarth Branch 79 Splott Road, Cardiff