Pro-life groups have expressed anger over a move in the Westminster Parliament to extend the provision of abortion to Northern Ireland.They are angry at moves by pro-abortion MPs, including five who represent English constituencies and one Scottish MP, who have tabled an amendment to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland, via the government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill.
Betty Gibson, Northern Ireland chairwoman for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) commented: "This attempt to impose abortion on Northern Ireland is extremist, anti-democratic and arrogant. The move flies in the face of the will of the people of Northern Ireland who have, through their elected representatives in both Stormont and Westminster, continued to say no to abortion."
“The leaders of all four major political parties and the four main Churches right across Northern Ireland's traditional divide have written to both the government and all Westminster MPs calling on them to allow the issue of abortion law to be decided by the Province's devolved government."
"None of the MPs who've tabled this amendment represent anyone from Northern Ireland."
Dr Evan Harris is notorious for his anti-life extremism, and John Bercow has tabled another amendment launching a witch-hunt against pro-life pregnancy counselling services.
Diane Abbott misled listeners of this morning's Today programme by claiming that the law on abortion in Northern Ireland is stricter than in the Republic of Ireland.
"This amendment is a desperate attempt by the most extreme members of the anti- life lobby to legalise abortion on demand ahead of the devolution of criminal justice matters to the Northern Ireland Assembly.”
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