A Derry Councillor has slammed People Before Profit representative, Eamonn McCann for bringing “another” motion pushing abortion before the Council at a time when people are suffering during the Covid lockdown.
Aontú Councillor, Emmet Doyle, said that the PBP was seeking to “continuously bring our focus to death” at a time when the people were dealing with “a mental health crisis, poverty and a range of other issues”
“Eamonn McCann will tomorrow bring yet another pro-abortion motion to Council. Naturally, I will oppose it and we will see where Councillors stand. Strangely, whilst we are addressing a mental health crisis, poverty and a range of other issues, one party wants to continuously bring our focus to death,” Cllr Doyle posted on his Facebook page.
Cllr McCann, a long-time advocate of abortion, said he was “proposing a motion calling on the Health Minister, Robin Swann, to make abortion available in the North.”
He claimed the Health Minister’s decision “not to commission abortion services is dramatically out of step with the will of the majority of people in the North”. However, pro-life campaigners point out that abortion was not approved by the people or the Assembly, but imposed by Westminster with the support of Sinn Féin and the SDLP.
Pro-life activists also criticised a motion before Belfast City Council this week which seeks to outlaw the display of photographs of aborted babies. “If the reality of abortion is too hard to look at, then why are we making it legal,” they said.