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Dear
SPUC supporter,
On Tuesday 2 June, the Northern Ireland Assembly debated the new abortion regulations which the Conservative Government is imposing on the Province. A motion rejecting “the imposition of abortion legislation” was adopted by 46 votes to 40. An amendment from Sinn Féin which attempted to remove this wording was also voted down by 52 votes to 32.
In response to an Urgent Question tabled by Sir Jeffery Donaldson MP, the Minister of State Robin Walker on 4 June, dismissed the vote in the Assembly. He made clear the Government’s determination to force the most extreme abortion regime in Europe on the people of Northern Ireland.
The regulations are due to be debated in a House of Commons committee Monday 8 June with a final vote in the following days. I am writing to you today with a special request to contact your MP, asking him/her to vote against the Northern Ireland Abortion Regulations. Every vote matters, so it is important that your MP is encouraged to vote against them.
A letter, email or even Tweet to your MP could make all the difference.
Here are some of the more horrific aspects of the the Government’s abortion framework for Northern Ireland:
- Abortion on demand for babies up to 12 weeks
- Abortion up to 24 weeks on unspecified “health” grounds, including claims about the mother’s “financial, relationship or housing issues which impact on the continuance of the pregnancy” — essentially abortion on demand.
- Abortion up to and during birth on grounds of disability.
- No limit for self-induced abortions. A woman who kills her child while giving birth will not commit a criminal offence.
- Doctors who selectively kill a disabled twin or triplet just before or during delivery will not be prosecuted.
Please contact your MP urgently, with a request to vote against this Statutory Instrument. These regulations provide the template for what the abortion industry want to introduce across the whole of the UK. We need to do everything we can to defeat them now and every vote will count.
Here are the key points you can make to your MP are:
- The Northern Ireland Assembly rejected the Government’s regulations.
- Seventy-nine per cent of the people in Northern Ireland who responded to a public consultation on the regulations rejected the government’s proposals.
- Authority for abortion law in Northern Ireland should be returned to the people of Northern Ireland and their political representatives at Stormont.
- These regulations permit abortion on demand and even abortion up to birth in some cases.
- According to the Attorney General for Northern Ireland, John Larkin, the minister "exceeded his powers" in introducing these abortion regulations.
- Mr Larkin also questioned whether the legislation gives adequate protection, under the European Convention on Human Rights, to the rights of those who oppose abortion on religious or philosophical grounds.
- The regulations lack all legitimacy and Boris Johnson should stop trying to force them on the people of Northern Ireland.
Please contact your MP today.
With all good wishes,
Liam Gibson
Northern Ireland Political Officer
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