Posted on 10/16/2021 6:08:35 PM PDT by marshmallow
Northern Ireland is continuing to push back against the British government’s attempted expansion of abortion in the country.
Society for the Protection of Unborn Children attorney John Larkin QC stated directly that Northern Ireland has no obligation to comply with the Secretary of State’s edicts directing the country to provide abortions. According to News Letter, he argued that “the Minister of the Crown cannot […] boss people about unless the law gives them power to do it, and requires people to act in accordance with his edicts. It doesn’t. There is simply no duty to comply with these, and that is significant in terms of whether or not they change the law of Northern Ireland. They don’t.”
In 2019, the British government at Westminster exploited a power-sharing crisis among the leading parties, forcing the legalization of abortion up to 12 weeks — or 24 weeks in certain circumstances — in the absence of government leaders. When the power-sharing crisis was resolved and the Assembly and Executive resumed their duties after a period of suspension, the governing Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) declined to act on the new law and provide abortion services in the country. It was at that point in July of 2021 that Secretary of State Brandon Lewis ordered the health department to implement the expanded abortion access by March of 2022.
While abortion until 24 weeks, and until birth in some cases, has been legal in most of the UK since 1967, Westminster has typically left Northern Ireland to make its own decisions about abortion. The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 spelled out what kind of issues were for the British government in Westminster to decide and which were to be left to Northern Ireland’s Stormont Assembly.
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Amen, do not comply
The Irish of Northern Ireland are the only true Irish left.
Good for them!
“ The Irish of Northern Ireland are the only true Irish left.”
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I was stunned when the people of Ireland VOTED FOR abortion. I’m glad that at least the north is still resisting.
Communists took them over years ago.
I wonder if Dominion tabulated the vote when the Irish Republic voted for abortion.
My tough-as-nails ancestors.
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