DUP and SF will be held responsible if they don’t restore Assembly and halt abortion-on-demand
SOMETIMES politicians seem to be afraid of the voters. Some who were asking for a general election now do not want an election. Some who were asking for the restoration of our Assembly are now opposing such a return.
I am pleading with our local politicians to recognise the growing support for the restoration of Stormont for the sake of the pro-life cause here.
I am referring to the packed prayer gathering For the Soul of the Nation at St Anne’s Cathedral, the 20,000 people attending the NI Voiceless event at Stormont and another large crowd at the Precious Life march in Belfast.
I was surprised to see several of our local unionist politicians appearing in the march up to Parliament Buildings.
I — and many others — were marching to Stormont because our politicians had gone Awol. We are saying to our local politicians — especially the DUP and Sinn Fein — that we hold you responsible to get back into Stormont to legislate for us on the abortion issue.
It will not wash to push all the blame on Westminster. We have been given a window of opportunity to allow local democratic control of abortion legislation, if we can restore our institutions by October 21.
As a unionist voter, I contend the DUP should yield on the main issue apparently blocking the return of the Assembly, namely the Irish Language Act. If they put everything on the table in order to be able to take local control of the abortion legislation and Sinn Fein refuse to co-operate, then we will know we can blame Sinn Fein.
It is time for the DUP and Sinn Fein to choose. Do they put the Irish Language Act above defeating this horrific abortion-on-demand legislation?
Many voters, on all sides, are much more disturbed about the introduction of abortion-on-demand than they are about Irish language legislation, or indeed any other party shibboleths.
If the DUP or Sinn Fein make the wrong choice, we will hold them responsible for the blood of the innocents that will soon be spilled.