SF’s abortion stance will lose them votes

IN 1922, Sinn Fein issued a statement: “We repudiate the authority of a foreign country to make laws binding upon us and consequently we refuse to participate in any election brought about by the foreigner to have our country represented in an alien parliament.”

Almost a century later, in March 2018, Paul Maskey MP reaffirmed that the policy of Sinn Fein remained unchanged and that Westminster, “should have no part in governing the people of the north of Ireland’’.

He also declared: “The interests of Irish people have rarely been the concern of the British Government, or Parliament.”

A little more than one year later, Mary Lou McDonald was crowned as new leader of Sinn Fein.

In a speech at an ard fheis in Wexford, she warned prolife delegates in attendance that she would never again tolerate any discussion on abortion.

A few months later, Mark Carruthers interviewed Mary Lou on BBC NI’s The View, in which she boasted that she had led a delegation of her Northern Ireland abstentionist MPs to Westminster.

Their purpose? To lobby Labour Party MPs Stella Creasy and Conor McGinn and many other MPs to have the Northern Ireland Formation Bill amended in order to decriminalise abortion and to legislate for same-sex marriage.

Unfortunately, by a majority of almost 200 votes, the amendment was passed into law.

Shamefully, the members of the Sinn Fein delegation to Westminster prostituted themselves by achieving their objective at the cost of the future loss of life of many unwanted babies.

In the general election tomorrow, I hope voters will support pro-life candidates, who will spare no efforts in their determination to have this detestable amendment repealed.

A Catholic, in good conscience, cannot support, or vote in favour of, any political party whose policies contradict doctrinal Catholic Church teaching.

I will cast my vote for Aontu.

H RODDY By email