Ending the life of an unborn child

Part of Executive Committee Business – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 12:15 pm on 12 March 2013.

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Photo of Stewart Dickson Stewart Dickson Alliance 12:15, 12 March 2013

They have not properly developed, properly consulted on or properly considered the full impact of this policy.  The women of Northern Ireland deserve better.  We all deserve better.  It is for those reasons that I am opposed to this amendment today. 

Finally, if we want to have an abortion debate, let us have that debate and let us deal with those difficult issues, but let us not pretend that this ill-thought-out amendment either moves us forward or does anything adequate to protect the health and rights of women and the unborn child.