Precious Life to Protest SDLP over their failure to stop abortion law
Precious Life to Protest SDLP over their failure to stop abortion law
Precious Life will be bringing their ‘Fight-Back’ Campaign to Derry today (Tuesday 29th October 2019) to protest the SDLP’s refusal to intervene to stop Westminster’s abortion law. Northern Ireland’s leading pro-life organisation Precious Life will be holding protests outside the constituency offices of SDLP leader Colum Eastwood MLA and Mark H Durkin MLA. The organised protests are in response to the SDLP’s actions at Stormont on Monday 21st October 2019, when the SDLP walked out of a last-minute attempt to stop the imposition of abortion laws from Westminster, forcing the Assembly to close. Today’s protests will take place from 12:30pm with many expected to be in attendance.
Director of Precious Life, Bernadette Smyth said, “The SDLP - who still spout the lie that they are a ‘pro-life party’ – have betrayed the unborn babies of Northern Ireland by walking out of the Stormont Chamber. They pulled the life-line from our unborn children. They walked away and abandoned unborn babies in their greatest hour of need.”
Bernadette Smyth concluded, “Today’s protests are crucial. There is a huge amount of public frustration and heartbreak over the imposition of abortion on Northern Ireland, and much of this is directed at the SDLP, who walked out on the unborn child at the time that mattered the most, after years of claiming to be a ‘pro-life’ party. The SDLP need to be held to account for their actions, and these protests will give pro-life people and voters an opportunity to hold the SDLP accountable, and make their views known."