Posted on 07/30/2021 10:39:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly says he has sought legal advice on how to resist the imposition of full abortion services by Westminster.
Paul Givan, who is a DUP member of the Legislative Assembly, said that he is assessing his options in a bid to stop the Secretary of State, Brandon Lewis, from using new powers to insist that full abortion services are rolled out in the region at the behest of the British parliament.
Mr. Lewis is seeking to direct Stormont to roll out abortion services by March despite previously being on record as saying he could not take that option without agreement from all the power-sharing executive parties.
Sinn Féin and the SDLP were accused of going ‘cap in hand’ to Westminster to ask the British parliament to impose abortion, despite the long-held position of nationalists that an independent and united Ireland should be free of British control.
However, the DUP has resisted the move to roll out abortion provision in the region, with Mr. Givan proposing a Bill in March that aimed to outlaw abortions on most disability grounds in Northern Ireland. …
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It seems ironic that Irish Republicans in Sinn Fein are the ones who lobbied the British government to introduce abortion by force whilst they have continued to stand as an obstacle to ending direct rule from London.
They’re also vocally against the European Union, but have accepted their influence in overturning the Republic’s Eighth Amendment that gave equal right to life to both mother and unborn child. They will never, ever get their claimed desire for an independent united Ireland—the EU’s grip is way too strong now.
Their newfound love of the EU is pure political expediency. Its a means to use Brexit to drive a wedge between GB and NI, and given how they have positioned themselves as ‘progressives’ like the Scottish Nationalists are using that to play to their base.
Its no wonder some Catholic Republicans have started voting DUP, they are the only ones standing up for Christian values, regardless of their position on transubstantiation vs constansubistation.
Their “political expediency” will turn out to be political folly; Brussels has too much power and they won’t be able to extricate themselves from it.
The so-called Scottish “nationalists” actually want to join the EU in the case of leaving the UK. That is not actual nationalism; but then again, like Sinn Féin, they are themselves socialists. (Scottish national socialists? Nazis? Someone ought to call them out on that.)
The irony is that if the late Ian Paisley was still around and using his old rhetoric against “Papists”, the DUP certainly would not garner a conservative Catholic vote, even faced with the godless socialism that’s besetting them now
God only knows. It might have depended on what devout Catholics found more offensive. Paisely’s rants about popery, or Sinn Fein’s sordid passion for marxism and abortion.
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