Abortion Law In Northern Ireland;amdt. Line 1:

EDM number 822A1 in 1994-95, proposed by Martin Smyth on 23/03/1995.

leave out from `House' to end and add `notes that people of all denominations in Northern Ireland are united in their opposition to abortion, that the extension of the Abortion Act was opposed by 18 of 19 local authorities which debated the issue, that the Northern Ireland Assembly on 29th February 1984 voted by 20 to 1 against extension of the Act or any like legislation; endorses the statement by the honourable Member for North Antrim that `the overwhelming opposition is amazing, because it stretches from the Unionist parties to the nationalist SDLP. It stretches from churches to the students' union of Queen's University, which in no way would be called a Conservative or right-wing body'; notes that despite Britain's high teenage abortion rate, in Northern Ireland there are fewer teenage births than in Britain; observes that the assertion that the law violates the standards of human rights law rests on the mistaken assumption that there is a `right' to abortion under British law; notes that in Northern Ireland there are no reported cases of pregnant victims of rape being denied abortion nor of women's health being damaged through pregnancies which doctors elsewhere in the United Kingdom would have aborted and that the district obstetric mortality rate in Northern Ireland, at 2.4 per 100,000 births, is the lowest in the United Kingdom and significantly lower than the 6.2 in Great Britain; and resolves to uphold the dignity of women and the right to life of unborn children in accordance with the cultural, religious, medical, ethical and legal traditions of Northern Ireland.'.

This is a ammendment to 822.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.