‘Pro-life’ letter gets 18,000 signatures

DUP Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart has hand delivered an open letter to 10 Downing Street, signed by 18,000 people in Northern Ireland, calling for abortion regulations to be abandoned and the devolution settlement to be respected.
Disability Campaigner Heidi Crowter and Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart.Disability Campaigner Heidi Crowter and Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart.
Disability Campaigner Heidi Crowter and Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart.

She was accompanied by Disability Campaigner Heidi Crowter as they handed over the petition.

Ms Lockhart said: “Today at Westminster, along with colleagues and Heidi Crowter, we have delivered a petition to the Government saying no to the extreme abortion regulations that are being forced on the people of Northern Ireland.

“Along with over 18,000 people from Northern Ireland who signed the petition, we want to send a clear message to the Government that the people of Northern Ireland do not want Westminster imposing these extreme abortion laws on them.

“Instead we join with Heidi Crowter in saying no to discriminatory disability-selective abortion. We join Heidi in saying both lives matter.

“It is not the place of this Government to implement such far-reaching abortion laws on Northern Ireland that will see abortion up to birth for disability especially when the NI Assembly has rejected them.

“As the vote takes place, I am urging Westminster MPs to allow the devolved Assembly to legislate in regards to abortion.”