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Standing Shoulder to Shoulder on Abortion Issue in Northern Ireland : 7th Jul 08
“It was an amazing—and wonderful—turnaround for history that Irish Catholics and Ulster Protestants had stood shoulder to shoulder on this issue of the unborn child”
As the price for giving their support to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown in backing 42-days detention for suspected terrorists, Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has extracted a promise from him that the British Abortion Act will not be extended to Northern Ireland.
According to columnist Mary Kenny writing in “The Irish Catholic”, “it was an amazing—and wonderful—turnaround for history that Irish Catholics and Ulster Protestants had stood shoulder to shoulder on this issue of the unborn child”.
She added, “While many liberals deplore the holding of suspects for 42 days, they think nothing of ‘terminating’ the life of an infant at 24 weeks”. She noted that liberals in Ireland have always wanted “ecumenism”—and rightly so. But when they call for “ecumenism”, they certainly don’t mean the getting-together of conservatives.
But, she said, “the DUP’s stalwart defence of the unborn shows that whatever political differences remain within Ireland—and perhaps will always remain—there is a deep sense of unity of values”. The Irish Catholic. June 19.
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