The culture of death continues to grow as Northern Ireland witnessed the opening of its first abortion clinic in downtown Belfast last week.
The clinic, operated by the British abortion group Marie Stopes, was met with fierce opposition from protesters from both Catholic and Protestant communities of the area. Leaders of the joint Catholic-Protestant government condemned the move and promised a quick investigation into the clinic’s unwelcomed opening.
The newly established beachhead for the culture of death united the largely divided Protestant and Catholic communities of Northern Ireland both of which are adamantly opposed to the evil of abortion. "I expect the heads of government to run Marie Stopes out of Northern Ireland," Bernadette Smyth of the largely Protestant group Precious Life, told supporters at the protest. Bishop Donal McKeown, auxiliary bishop of the Down and Conor Dioceses, denounced the establishment of the abortion mill stating: “We are in the middle of a struggle for the soul of Northern Ireland.”
The culture of death knows no boundaries nor will the purveyors of abortion like Marie Stopes and their U.S. counterpart, Planned Parenthood, stop their promotion of such evil. The people of Northern Ireland know the painful experience of murder and are still scarred from the sectarian violence of the last forty years of civil unrest. Importing the culture of death from Britain where abortion has been legal since 1967 is a shameful and reprehensible action. Mary Stopes and partners in the effort to increase access to their allies of abortion must leave Belfast and withdraw from their newly established beachhead of the culture of death. We offer our prayers and support to our Protestant and Catholic brothers and sisters of Ulster in their courageous fight to keep the culture of life alive and well in Northern Ireland. The innocent unborn and the soul of Northern Ireland itself deserve nothing less.
