Tony Blair had a deep Christian zyhaa828 faith but still
cheap snapbacks allowed Alastair Campbell to pull him back from discussing it — with the words “we don’t do God.”That would be a good principle for our local politicians to adopt. Being guided by principle, and showing your principles by the way you lead your life, is difficult but it tends to command respect. It is called integrity.Preaching to others and demanding that they should live by your principles is comparatively easy but it is not an attractive quality.
It can appear priggish, overbearing, even hypocritical, especially
cheap snapbacks hats in a political leader who uses elected position to impose personal convictions on others.Male politicians telling women whether and when to become pregnant and ordering them not to have abortions if they are raped are taking a risk with their credibility.The DUP is now the largest political party in the province and has recently boosted its support base by projecting a more modern, progressive image.
When he returns from holidays, Peter Robinson should rein in
cheap snapbacks online his more zealous colleagues who could end up limiting the party’s appeal to the faithful few.An offence still punishable here by life imprisonmentNorthern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom where abortion is still illegal.Carrying out a termination is only allowed to save a mother’s life or prevent long-term physical and mental damage to her health.All other cases, including when the woman has been the victim of rape, are banned.
Effectively, the law here is as it was in Britain before 1967, when
wholesale snapbacks the Abortion Act was introduced.It allowed abortions where the unborn child was aged up to 24 weeks and, after that, if there is an extreme foetal abnormality or the mother is likely to suffer severe physical or mental injury.When the Act went through Westminster, Northern Ireland had its own parliament and the issue of abortion was left for it to decide — it did not take up the issue. When Direct Rule returned, Westminster never extended the Abortion Act to Northern Ireland.
Sections 58 and 59 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 and sections
wholesale snapbacks hats25 and 26 of the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 govern the law on abortion here.An offence under section 58 is punishable with life imprisonment.According to statistics released in an Assembly question, 123 legal abortions took place in Northern Ireland over a three-year period.The figures for “termination of pregnancy”, which do not include cases where there had been a miscarriage, showed that there were 44 abortions in 2008/09, 36 in 2009/10 and 43 in 2010/11.
Abortion is legal in England, Scotland and Wales, and there is nothing
wholesale new era snapbacksin law in any of the UK’s jurisdictions to stop women from Northern Ireland travelling to the mainland to have a termination.In 2009, the number of abortions carried out in England and Wales was 189,100.Some 2,085 were the result of doctors deciding that there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from severe physical or mental abnormalities and be seriously handicapped.The majority were certified under the statutory ground of risk of injury to the mental or physical health of the pregnant woman.
