Several pro-life women at a SPUC event in Parliament.
Yesterday, 60 celebrities addressed an open letter to the Prime Minister, calling on her to give parliamentary time to Diana Johnson's Abortion Bill, and to commit to decriminalisation. Over 280 pro-life women (and counting) have this response.
UPDATED: over 320 pro-life women have now signed this response. Thank you for inundating us with emails of support!
Dear Prime Minister Theresa May
Women and unborn children across the United Kingdom are waiting in anticipation as their human rights are debated in Parliament. We are relying on you and your Government to stand equally with woman and child and protect them both from the violence and heartbreak of abortion.
Each day in the UK, 552 unborn children lose their lives, while their mothers are left to endure the physical and mental suffering that abortion can cause. Since the passing of the 1967 Abortion Act over 9 million unborn children have been terminated - equivalent to the entire population of Scotland and Wales. In a civilised country, how is this situation allowed to prevail?
As young women, we are aware of the challenges that pregnant women and girls still face today. It is scandalous that in 2018, there are pregnant women and girls who have been left so financially, emotionally or socially unsupported that they feel driven to abort their child.
Abortion is the sign that society has failed women through its inability to create an environment in which pregnant women feel secure to raise their children. It is utterly shameful that pregnant women still feel they have no option other than to abort. They must choose between the life of their child or their relationship; the life of their child or job security; the life of their child or a home. This is the devastating reality behind the veneer of "choice".
Abortion is never the answer. The child is never the problem. Instead, it is the societal inequalities faced by women that lead them to abortion. We should seek to eradicate these root inequalities. Women should never need abortion access, and we deserve better.
Indeed, the laws of Northern Ireland recognise this, and affirm that both lives matter. As the Prime Minister of the UK, we are confident that you will respect democratic right of the devolved assembly at Stormont to legislate on this matter.
We appeal to you in hope. Do not extend this cruel and uncivilised practice any further. Allow Northern Ireland to prosper free from the violent threat of abortion. Be a champion for true choice. Be a champion for science. Be a champion for women. Be a voice for the most vulnerable. Be a voice for the most tiny citizens of the UK, who cannot speak for themselves. Protect us both.
From, pro-life women across the UK.
- Sophia Morgan
- Rachel Munro
- Ruth O'Coinleain
- Isabel Vaughan Spruce
- Clare Deighan
- Elizabeth Clare
- Karen Browne
- Lucy Dooly
- Roisin Deighan
- Julie Geoghegan
- Jan Cavin
- Leah Boyle
- Madeleine Swain
- Marie Therese Deighan
- Jessica Wallace
- Chloe Keenan
- Siobhan Cooke
- Bethan Clearly
- Mary Woodard
- Grace Browne
- Alice McCormick
- Amber Flynn
- Marie Therese Clenaghan
- Debbie Fisher
- Rosemary Healy
- Catherine Farrelly
- Marissa Nowosad
- Maria Ward
- Melissa Elanor
- Katherine Hampton
- Mary Frances Jennow
- Monica Quadri
- Louise Grant
- Elizabeth Foody
- Ann Nolan
- Sarah Haire
- Mishal Novani
- Jutta Portelli
- Lucille McQuade
- Elena Feick
- Raya Cotton
- Helen Reid
- Michelle Kerr
- Selina Fang
- Hannah Patterson
- Sandra McCluskey
- Emily Prest
- Maria Madise
- Dolly Sunny
- Margaret Akers
- Eden Linton
- Maria McArdle
- Dona Sunny
- Orlagh McKeeman
- Grace Deighan
- Naomi Gildea
- Dayana Sunny
- Meritxell Elizabeth
- Antonia Tully
- Berni McCluskey
- Lissy Philip
- Allie Robinson
- Nadine Formosa
- Michelle Thompson
- Angela Mui
- Katie Edwards
- Helen Kidd
- Nicola Dickson
- Rosie Milne
- Karima Ameur
- Emma O'Connell
- Lucy Kelly
- Marie Seggie
- Jean Ann Farrell Roberts
- Anna Mary
- Jane Kelly
- Maria Jones
- Madeline Page
- Katie Tennent
- Angela Kelly
- Elain Gallacher
- Emily Milne
- Eleanor Hall
- Aofie Ong
- Elizabeth Lee
- Mary Ashmall
- Therese McKinely
- Nuala McBride
- Rachel Millan
- Donna Karikunnel
- Emma Paterson
- Marie Claire Gribbon
- Rachel Elizabeth Callaghan
- Caroline McNeil
- Finola Bradley
- Mollie Stegaroiu
- Anna McKinley
- Mary McKinley
- Sarah Kate Moynihan
- Celeste Treloar
- Hannah O'Neil
- Julie Gilmore
- Carter Lyon
- Charmaine Howorth
- Cordelia Rice
- Alison Hall
- Sarah Jane Thompson
- Imelda Catbagan Canave
- Fiorella Nash
- Naomi Forrester
- Iona Doohan
- C.Gilfedder
- N.Gilfedder
- Lucy Farrelly
- Tamara Sanchez
- Sarah Thatcher
- Alithea Williams
- Lily Kearns
- Jenifer Wordley
- Natasha Flynn
- Kathryn Muldoon
- Patricia Beaddie
- Arlene Rebello
- Anne Rafferty
- Breda Roche
- Sarah Barber
- Catherine Bolam
- Leanna MacQueen
- Evelyn Pelosi
- Clare Plasom Scott
- Frances Gallagher
- Mary Fok
- Andrea Orthova
- Monique Kinight
- Teresa Quail
- Jackie Kerr
- Katherine Stevenson
- Kathy Riley
- Clare A Monoghan
- Jazmine Okolo
- Pauline Jacob
- Thelma Nunez McNally
- Sally Dawes
- Aileen Kelly
- Sarah Spratley
- Charyn Frances
- Catherine Dorrington
- Calire Peacock
- Miss Rachel Hurford
- Mrs A Azar
- Dr. Teresa Bisikiewicz
- Bernie Keenan
- Jackie Gillick
- Beatrix letore
- Marion Banks
- Orla Tiernan
- Anna Tiernan
- Jacqueline Tiernan
- Susanna Goldsworthy
- Alice Marie Baird
- Ewa Sulicka
- Jenifer Burke
- Lorraine Coyne
- Laura Waddelove
- Rebekah Smith
- Catherine McDonald
- Mary Heaney
- Mari Carmen Orfila
- Jean Dunne
- Sue Comber
- Mary Cahill
- Lisa McDines
- Molly McDines
- Emily McDines
- Anna McDines
- Jenifer Ward
- Laura Therese Devlin
- Sofia Abasolo
- Rachel Mackenzie
- Hannah Benson
- Catherine Deighan
- Lucy Starkle
- Rhea Steel
- Therese McIntyre
- Josephine MacGregor
- Clare Thompson
- Leann McLaughlin
- Natalie Smith
- Kay walsh
- Anna Hamill
- Janice Vance
- Kathleen Cotter
- Patricia Parody
- Nathalie Salic
- Philomena O'Brien
- Samantha Chohan
- Irena Sani
- Jenifer Carr
- Claire Fitzgerald
- Julie Law
- Anne Griffiths
- Gail Mills
- Siobhan Casey
- Vicky Langguth
- Sile Tiernan
- Philomena Tiernan
- Gabby Allies
- Jenifer Gorman
- Mary Ayres
- Caitlin Girling
- Lucy Weight
- Rachel Rennie
- Bernadette Hanrahan
- Kathleen Linton Ford
- Mary Tidy
- Emma Genockey
- Lydia Keogh
- Laura Cuthbertson
- Ann Farmer
- Maria O'Brien
- Rosa Rita Seery
- Mary McShefferty
- Katherine Van Kroonenburg
- Evelyn Williams
- Eileen McBride
- Hazel Maria Rose Fernandes
- Teresa Vila Real
- Raphaelle Clark
- Aine Brolly
- Catherine Sewell
- Rona Grieve
- Bethany French
- Anna Row
- Nichola Cecil
- Lynda Boden
- Maria Niznik
- Alexis Castleton
- Julie Murphy
- Regina Roszczynska
- Bernie Lewey
- Keira Hamilton
- Annabel Osborn
- Alison Lowry
- Imelda Byrne
- Chiara Finaldi
- Maria Clare Houston
- Rosemary Byrne
- Margaret langley
- Therese McKinley
- Hannah Hayward
- Mary Catherine Gribbon
- Rebecca Lafferty
- Felicitas Francis
- Rachael McEvoy
- Dymphna Clenaghan
- Estefania Alvarez
- Helen Border
- Emily Nelson
- Emma Atkin
- Catriona Atkin
- Erin Timmoney
- Gemma Haire
- Mairi Hughes
- Ruth O'Shea
- Emmi Egbuonu
- Alannagh McDonell
- Nicky Lynas
- Ariana Albrecht
- Xanthe Vanderputt
- Helena Penfold
- Therese Vooght
- Daisy Mae
- Eleanor Kirk
- Nisha Thanikachalm
- Agatha Harold
- Claz Gomez
- Kirstie Stage
- Amy Owens
- Louise Fry
- Sarah Emily Brooks
- Nimneh Hyde
- Chelsie Martone
- Janet O'Neil
- R Corrigan
- Nikita Tyrrell
- Sarah Ward
- Rosemary Kilduff
- Barbara Thomas
- Dorothy Cummings McLean
- Maria Horan
- Joanne McCourt
- Teresa Bates
- Sarah Cumming
- Anna McCourt
- Kathleen O'Neil
- Megan Kate McClement
- Patricia Dowey
- Mary Pinnock
- Dr Angela Costley
- Elisabeth Bailey
- Audrey Fussell
- Adriana Torokpena
- Liza Quin
- Sjoukje Dijkstra
- Jacqueline Eve
- Mary Curran
- Natalie Crockett
- Donna Graham
- Karenza Morillo
- Maria Affron
- Aemelia Grantham
- Mary Grant
- Helen Shipton
- Anna Bensusan
- Ailsa Skuodas
- Daphne Chang
- Celine Hyned
- Marcela Umana
- Angela Thomson
- Sinead G. Farrell Roberts
- Angela Perera
- Louise Corker
- Brigitte Castaret
- Monika Zarnecka McDonagh
- Rosalind Bentley
- Sarah Morton
- Lynne MacMillan
- Sue Marriot
- Elaine Victor
- Mary Teresa Doogan
- Heather Gough
- Megan Ballestero
- Elizabeth Wordley
- Anna Tarlaga
- Jenna Givens
- Elizabeth Miller
- Helen Lyall
- Carole Smith
- Rosemary Casey
- Christine Hudson
- Maria Affron
- Christine Posso
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