Ulster campaigns to stop change in abortion laws

By Simon Caldwell A FRESH campaign is to be launched to stop the introduction of liberal abortion laws to Northern Ireland.
Betty Gibson, chairwoman of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Northern Ireland, announced the move in the wake of the comments by Mo Mowlam, who lamented "not finding a suitable moment to introduce a review of the abortion law" during her time as Northern Ireland Secretary.
"This clear admission by a leading government minister that the British Abortion Act, which has led to abortion virtually on demand, should be regarded as a model for the law here and that she was only waiting for a suitable moment to do it, demonstrates the constant danger Northern Ireland faces from the current Government," wrote Mrs Gibson in a letter to The Catholic Herald.
"This is why we are now launching a new campaign aimed at showing people how women and children suffer when abortion laws are liberalised and asking them to write to Mr Blair urging him not to impose abortion on Northern Ireland."
Meanwhile, Alert, the antieuthanasia group, has delivered a 4,000-name petition to the Prime Minister in protest at new British Medical Association guidelines on starving and dehydrating patients to death. The petition declares the guidelines to be an endorsement of involuntary euthanasia and calls on Mr Blair to issue a statement condemning and rejecting them.
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