Pro-lifers from all parts of Ireland came out in force
yesterday to protest the attempt to open a Marie Stopes abortion clinic in
Belfast. Abortion is prohibited in Northern Ireland except to save the life of
the mother.It has been estimated that numbers exceeded 1000 during the protest
Despite claims to the contrary, no one believes Marie Stopes
will try to follow the law because intentional abortion is never needed to save
the life of the mother so there is no reason under the law to have an abortion
clinic.The strategy being adopted by Marie Stopes appears to be break the law in order to change it. This is a strategy that pro-abortionists have adopted on many occasions in the past
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In a separate development the Northern Ireland Attorney General John Larkin has asked the Committee for Justice of the Northern Ireland
Assembly to investigate the Marie Stopes clinic.
The Attorney General said if evidence emerged of serious
criminal offences being committed, an injunction could be obtained to stop
criminal breaches of the law by the Marie Stopes clinic and those working
there, and the police would be informed.
Mr Larkin continued by saying that concern is increased by the
fact that Marie Stopes claim the law in Northern Ireland is restrictive and
they make no secret of their desire to make abortion easier thare
