The DUP have been praised by Pro Life groups both sides of the border after they tried to stop abortion laws being introduced into the North from midnight tonight.
According to the Belfast Telegraph, the DUP leader Arlene Foster described the introduction of new abortion legislation in Northern Ireland as a “shameful day”.
Arlene was speaking in Stormont in its first Assembly meeting since 2017.
The DUP politicians argued with Speaker Robin Newton over Assembly procedure in an effort to keep abortion out of Northern Ireland.
An attempt by DUP MLAs to push through a Defence of the Unborn Child bill was blocked by the Speaker Robin Newton who claimed that legal advice told him Assembly business could not proceed without the election of a new Speaker and deputies on a cross-community basis. He refused to say he gave him that legal advice which left politicians wondering was he lying.
Mrs Foster said that this was “not the end of the matter” and that her party would do everything it could to explore options that would repeal the abortion legislation.
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