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Norn Iron Unites

What issue could be so important that it unites Northern Ireland’s four main political parties? The leaders of the Democratic Unionist Party, Sinn Féin, the Social Democratic & Labour Party, and the Ulster Unionist Party (to name the parties, from largest to smallest in number of votes) have written to Westminster MPs urging them to oppose the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland was exempt from the Act legalizing abortion in Great Britain because at the time it had its own parliament handling regional issues. The six Irish counties that have remained in the Union are the most strongly anti-abortion part of the United Kingdom.

Published at 9:32 pm on Tuesday 13 May 2008. Categories: Church Great Britain Ireland Politics Tags: , , , .
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Sinn Fein are pro-abortion types, they’re afraid to come out and say it in case they lose voters.

“In cases of rape, incest or sexual abuse, or where a woman’s life and health is at risk or in grave danger, we accept that the final decision must rest with the woman.”

“We have a responsibility to not only address the issue of abortion but also the fact that between 5,000 and 10,000 Irish women travel to Britain each year for abortions.”

Both from http://www.sinnfein.ie/news/detail/21360

The latter a typical statement of Irish pro-abortion campaigners and translates as “introduce abortion here now”.

— PAH 14 May 2008 4:34 am

Some truth in that indeed; Sinn Fein tread that fine line between the usual bland socialist rhetoric and avoiding annoying their predominantly Roman Catholic support. Britain is rather odd in that sense: its Catholics often being socialist-inclined than conservative.

— David 14 May 2008 1:51 pm

One hardly expects better from Sinn Fein. Does anyone know if the SDLP has a better stance?

— gabriel 14 May 2008 3:48 pm

We should be so lucky if, here in the United States, politicians only defended abortion in the sad cases of “rape, incest or sexual abuse, or where a woman’s life and health is at risk or in grave danger”!

Unfortunately, we’re faced combating the engrained sense of entitlement to abortion procedures at any point in the pregnancy. As a physician, it is startlingly perverse that, on the one hand, a couple may struggle so hard to keep their 23-week premature baby alive, while on the other hand, some young lady chooses to terminate her 23-week “pregnancy” or “gestation” through dismemberment abortion. (Objectified terms like “gestation” or “pregnancy” are used instead of “baby” or “child” to ignore the fact that the “termination” is really elective murder.)

I guess Ireland would do well to combat even the case-based selection of early abortive procedures that Sinn Fein approves before that extends to the entitlement syndrome affecting the U.S. and the rest of Europe. And we in the U.S. should endeavor to scale things back at least to what Sinn Fein advocates.

Oh, how Satan must be laughing at the state of the world!

— Alessandro 15 May 2008 9:12 am
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