Terminations are now happening in Northern Ireland so we need clarity on where they happen

Last weekend saw a pro-life protest on the Cushendall Road in Ballymena. The maternity ward of the old Waveney Hospital was where many older residents of Ballymena took their first breath.

If the site is now being used for drug or surgical abortions, then church and political leaders in Ballymena might reasonably ask the Northern HSC Trust chief executive to provide clarity.

The black basalt outline of the old Braid Valley building features in a video by the activists, where they mention it as a site of past cruelties, when it was a workhouse.

The camera swings to a new building on the site, as the commentator discusses the chemical cocktail dispensed to kill unborn children — wherever such terminations take place. Is this the latest move by capitalists or eugenicists, to crush the lives of the poor?

We do not yet have clarity on what happens at Braid Valley, but abortions are happening around the world and now in Northern Ireland.

The New Testament speaks of judgement beginning with God’s household. Edmund Burke wrote: ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing’

Wesley Mitchell, Fermanagh

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