Source: Traditional Unionist Voice – Northern Ireland
Statement by TUV leader and North Antrim MP Jim Allister:
“This week has been a profoundly sad one for our nation.
“At the start of the week, Parliament, by a crushing majority, voted to decriminalise abortion at all stages, meaning there is now no criminal offence for abortion right up to the moment of birth. This is a truly retrograde and alarming step.
“Then, on Friday, Parliament passed the Assisted Suicide Bill. For the first time since the abolition of capital punishment, the state is set to be involved in facilitating the death of its own citizens.
“Together, these decisions present an appalling vista: that both at the start of life and the end of life, moral declension has brought us to the point where death and killing are not only permitted but embraced.
“As would be expected, I vigorously opposed both measures. But the majority view in this heavily dominated socialist Parliament was to abandon the standards and principles that our nation has, in good measure, stood by in the past — and instead to endorse death at will for the unborn and death at will for the vulnerable and elderly.
“These are sad times indeed.
“But they are also a clear indication of the kind of battles I was sent to Parliament to fight. I will continue to do so — in the name of those who sent me, and in the name of what is right, decent, and in order.”