New pro-life postcard petition calls on Westminster MPs to respect ‘right to life’ in Northern Ireland
Precious Life launch a new Postcard Petition Campaign today in response the announcement that Westminster MPs are next month set to vote on legalising abortion in the province. We are urging people to sign the ‘Lobby for Life’ petition calling on the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to ensure that any legislation regarding abortion in Northern Ireland will be dealt with by the Northern Ireland Assembly only.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where unborn babies are still protected. But Labour MP Diana Johnson with the support of other pro-abortion MPs, intends to introduce a 10-minute rule bill in Westminster to ‘decriminalise’ the killing of unborn babies throughout the UK, with the aim of paving the way for legalising abortion in Northern Ireland.
Our new Postcard Petition calls on the Northern Ireland Secretary of State to ensure that the democratic process in Northern Ireland is respected in Westminster, and ensure that any legislation regarding abortion in Northern Ireland will be dealt with by our Assembly only.
Downing Street has already said that abortion law is a devolved issue. However, these pro-abortion MPs in Westminster are exploiting the absence of a power-sharing Assembly at Stormont in an attempt to change our laws and legalise abortion in Northern Ireland. They are seeking to repeal Sections 58 and 59 of the ‘Offences against the Person Act.’ But repealing this Act would remove all safeguards for pregnant women, leaving them and their unborn children with no legal protection throughout the whole nine months of pregnancy.”
The Northern Ireland Assembly voted against legalising abortion as recently as February 2016. MPs in Westminster must not override the democratic process here by attempting to impose abortion on Northern Ireland against the wishes of the people here.
We call on our own MLAs to challenge these MPs. The question must be asked: are these MPs only choosing one devolved issue to vote on, or will they vote in Westminster to change other devolved issues next. Our Stormont MLAs must stand against this undermining of the democratic process in Northern Ireland. Either we have devolution or we don’t.