79% of respondents to UK Government Consultation REJECT any form of abortion in Northern Ireland
79% of respondents to UK Government Consultation REJECT any form of abortion in Northern Ireland.
On Wednesday 25th March the British Government announced they will be ushering in abortion up to the moment of BIRTH in Northern Ireland. This barbaric new law is due to come into effect on Tuesday (31st March) despite the fact that over 79% of those who responded to a Government consultation we're opposed to any change to Northern Ireland's pro-life laws.
This bloodthirsty pro-abortion UK Government has totally ignored the results of its own six-week consultation on changes to abortion law here, which took place from 4 November to 16 December last year.
We can proudly say that 79% of those who responded to the consultation expressed their opposition to ANY abortion in Northern Ireland, signifying the public support for our life-saving laws valuing the lives of both mothers and babies.
The steadfast and renewed opposition to changes to abortion comes as no surprise, seeing as Northern Ireland has an electorate who for decades have persistently shown their opposition to any changes to the province’s pro-life laws.
For the last 23 years Precious Life have led countless public awareness campaigns, and have witnessed enormous support for pro-life petitions and campaigns. In 2018, we highlighted that, through a culmination of campaigns in recent years, we collected over 300,000 signatures from the people of Northern Ireland expressing their support for our progressive and compassionate pro-life laws
Bernadette Smyth, Director of Precious Life, commented:
“It is horrifying to learn that one of the most permissive, extreme and inhumane abortion regimes in Europe will be introduced to Northern Ireland by the British Government. This is in spite of the fact that our elected representatives returned to Stormont in January and at a time when the UK has been brought to its knees by the Coronavirus pandemic. And right in the middle of a national crisis, when people in Northern Ireland and across the world are uniting under the shared understanding that all human life is precious and must be protected, the British Government are still intent on killing and destroying innocent and vulnerable human life in Northern Ireland.
Mrs Smyth continued:
“The people of Northern Ireland will not stand for this tyrannical and blood-thirsty attack on Northern Ireland’s unborn children, on our democracy and the principles of devolution. Precious Life are now calling on the pro-life majority of Northern Ireland to rise up in opposition to this horrific new law.
“We are asking the pro-life people of Northern Ireland, who have time and time again shown their emphatic opposition to abortion, to respond to our Repeal Section 9’ Campaign. We need them to email their MLAs to ask them to pass legislation to immediately REPEAL this barbaric and inhumane law, which 79% of respondents were firmly opposed to. Precious Life are also calling on people to sign and share their urgent online ‘Repeal Section 9’ Petition which can be presented as a people’s submission in opposition to this barbaric law.”
Contact your MLA at: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/
Sign the petition here: https://www.citizengo.org/en-gb/node/177408?fbclid=IwAR2gbTAqazjFPX5IOANYdz8t5dfQwmZcGjr1E4PLdbrO51bnkisYLY8wiWc