The Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont has voted against the imposition of abortion regulations by Westminster that allow for babies with disabilities to be aborted until birth. The vote was warmly welcomed by disability campaigners and pro-life groups. The Assembly debate saw Sinn Féin tying itself up in knots attempting a pretence of opposing abortion […]
A very significant majority of the public submissions made to a consultation on abortion in Northern Ireland organised by the British government opposed any changes to the abortion law. 79% – almost four out of every five submissions – “registered their general opposition to any abortion provision in Northern Ireland beyond that which is currently […]
Attempts by Sinn Féin and left-wing TDs such as BrÃd Smith to include amendments to the Emergency Measures legalisation which would allow abortion pills to be taken without a face-to-face consultation have been slammed as the “worst kind of opportunism” by the Life Institute. “While the rest of the country battles to save lives in the […]
I knew a woman from around Ardboe in East Tyrone whose family narrowly missed being killed by the loyalist outfit now commonly referred to as the Glenanne Gang. They were fortunate to have been out of their farmhouse in the fields and outhouses when their apparently friendly bread man who was a part-time member of […]
A response from well-known Belfast priest Fr Paddy McCafferty to Sinn Féin’s attempts to reassure voters angry at the party’s support for abortion has gone viral. Thousands have liked and shared the priest’s open answer and praised his honesty at a time when the North is facing the imposition of abortion from Westminster. He […]