Words cannot express our disappointment at the decision of MPs to press ahead with an extreme abortion regime for Northern Ireland

Yesterday a majority of MPs at Westminster put the final seal to the abortion regulations for Northern Ireland and concluded the process of removing legal protections from Northern Ireland’s unborn babies.
The House of Commons on Wednesday, when MPs confirmed the extreme abortion regulations for Northern IrelandThe House of Commons on Wednesday, when MPs confirmed the extreme abortion regulations for Northern Ireland
The House of Commons on Wednesday, when MPs confirmed the extreme abortion regulations for Northern Ireland

Words cannot express the disappointment we feel at the refusal of Westminster to respect devolution, the democratic process and the voices of the many people who live and work here.

Although 235 MPs voted in support of this extreme abortion regime, we are grateful to the 136 MPs who rejected it.

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We understand this has been the biggest pro-life vote on abortion law seen in parliament in recent years.

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They have claimed sovereignty in order to introduce the termination of our children’s lives.

With sovereignty comes a responsibility to protect and they have failed us.

Our focus returns to the Northern Ireland Assembly and we urge them to restore the protections which Westminster has removed from our children and from women in Northern Ireland.

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To introduce care and support services, enabling women to choose life.

As a society we can no longer simply listen to the virtue-signalling of ‘trust women’.

Systemic failings require a structural response, and we must offer better to women than abortion.

We have to enable women to choose life.

Both Lives will always Matter.

Our vision remains; for a people and place who value the life and health of women and unborn children and pursues the wellbeing of both.

Dawn McAvoy, co-founder, Both Lives Matter

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