PressuremountsforabortionreforminNorthernIreland,butDUPsaysnotochange

Claire Livingstone:

It’s not something I could do personally, but I also don’t believe I have the right to judge people’s circumstances. But for those that are so passionately against abortion, what about all the children born that aren’t wanted and are sitting in care homes or foster homes? I don’t see your goodwill over protecting life extend to helping the unwanted children. But it’s okay, someone else will deal with them.

Leonard Leader:

“The DUP is a pro-life party and we will continue to articulate our position.” No, you are not, Arlene. You are a pro-birth party with no regard whatsoever for the lives of the women you purport to represent. You will now merely be forcing these same women south for healthcare, while further strengthening the ties between the two parts of this island.

Claire O’Heron:

Perhaps we should consider that the No campaign would also have been celebrating had they won the same landslide. The jubilation was part relief, part emotion, after weeks and months of campaigning, walking door to door, speaking to people.

Charlotte Galbraith:

You don’t have to agree with abortion, but you have to give us the choice for proper healthcare. What if your daughter got raped? Would you force her to full term and birth a rapist’s baby? Or the mother’s life was at risk? Condoms fail, the pill fails, nothing is 100%, so are any of you men going to adopt all the children in care?

Bradley Henderson:

Charlotte Galbraith, if this law affected men, it would have been passed years ago.

Kelvin Dennan:

I am from Dublin and voted No, but it’s done now. This medieval party will lead modern Protestants to want a new Ireland that religion has no place in and where opportunities are for all.

Sharon Hill:

Kelvin Dennan, abortion an opportunity?

Houston Lowe:

I can’t think of anything more barbaric and medieval than the dismemberment of live babies.

Niamh Doyle Brady:

Someone who voted No calling others medieval. Irony overload.