> Last year, The Herald revealed that the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children – a Catholic anti-abortion charity which has also opposes hospital buffer zones and equal marriage – had caried out dozens of school visits across several council areas.
> The Herald asked the eight councils which reported SPUC school visits to confirm which pro-choice organisations had been invited to speak in the same schools. They were also asked to release the names of other organisations brought in to speak about the topics covered by the SPUC speakers.
> In almost all cases, the councils confirmed that no such groups had visited the schools in question, meaning that pupils’ only external input on a number of sensitive issues came from the SPUC.
> An anti-abortion group in the UK that gives talks to schoolchildren and medical professionals about what it terms “coerced abortion” is receiving tens of thousands of dollars from anonymous US-based backers,
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> Last year, The Herald revealed that the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children – a Catholic anti-abortion charity which has also opposes hospital buffer zones and equal marriage – had caried out dozens of school visits across several council areas.
> The Herald asked the eight councils which reported SPUC school visits to confirm which pro-choice organisations had been invited to speak in the same schools. They were also asked to release the names of other organisations brought in to speak about the topics covered by the SPUC speakers.
> In almost all cases, the councils confirmed that no such groups had visited the schools in question, meaning that pupils’ only external input on a number of sensitive issues came from the SPUC.
So[ who is funding SPUC](https://www.vice.com/en/article/93be83/anti-abortion-schools-uk)? Well, you’re not going to believe this, but:
> An anti-abortion group in the UK that gives talks to schoolchildren and medical professionals about what it terms “coerced abortion” is receiving tens of thousands of dollars from anonymous US-based backers,