Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill
Debate between Jim Shannon and Diana JohnsonMonday 8th July 2019
(5 years, 4 months ago)
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Abortion Act 1967: 50th Anniversary
Debate between Jim Shannon and Diana Johnson(7 years ago)
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Diana Johnson
My hon. Friend makes an important point, although the House did give my ten-minute rule Bill to decriminalise abortion its First Reading. It will be interesting to see the result if it is debated again in the new Parliament.
Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP)
I am very impressed by the hon. Lady, as she knows because I spoke to her before the debate to ask to intervene. She knows my opinion on these matters. I understand that she is going to bring some things forward, which would be a help, but at the same time we are meant to believe that abortion is somehow an expression of women’s rights, but, on the contrary, some of us believe that it is so often the means by which vulnerable young women are themselves destroyed by the sorrow it can naturally engender. Even when abortion itself does not cause the destruction of women, their mistreatment by the industry that provides abortion daily in this country clearly can.