An open letter from Clergymen to all pro life MLAs in the Stormont Assembly and Executive
from Centre for Bioethical Reform Northern Ireland:
We the undersigned,
We are grievously concerned with Westminster’s latest move to strip Stormont of all authority on the issue of abortion. This could lead to a 400+% increase in abortions i.e., approximately 6,500 babies being killed in their mothers’ wombs every year.
Westminster’s legislation would:
– allow the Secretary of State to alter our laws and make them even more liberal in the future.
– allow the Secretary of State the ability to bypass all ministers on the Northern Ireland Executive and instruct their departments directly to implement the full extent of his laws.
– ensure that the Secretary of State can block any changes to abortion regulations made by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
– provide full availability of abortion up until 24 weeks for any reason and up to birth for disabilities.
– ensure that funding is provided for the recruitment of staff and resources. This is deplorable, especially at this time of the current, well publicised health crisis where resources are already stretched.
– secure training for horrific procedures used in abortion such as feticide injection where the infant is killed through a lethal injection of Potassium Chloride into the heart.
– see abortion promoted and normalised in Schools through a radical Sex Education programme that the Secretary of State now has the power to impose on schools.
– allow the Secretary of State to ban Christian witness at abortion clinics and other facilities which would directly undermine the ability of Christians to share their loving concern for those involved in this practice.
As Christian Ministers we believe we have a duty to highlight and cry out to our society about this impending moral and humanitarian crisis. We would remind all concerned that the initial imposition of abortion onto Northern Ireland in 2019 was over the heads of the people and our elected Assembly. This form of action destroys the principle of devolution and neutralises the Belfast Agreement framework for Northern Ireland, which will contribute to great instability at a politically sensitive time.
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