New regulations which would force Northern Ireland’s schools to teach a permissive view of abortion have been described as a “very serious restriction” on religious liberty [1].
Liam Gibson of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) told The Irish Catholic they have asked people to oppose the move which was introduced from Westminster in the absence of a functioning Stormont.
Mr Gibson said the regulations “mandate abortion is taught as a ‘right’, and that there is information provided on how to get an abortion for children in schools”.
“It’s forbidden to promote any view other than that, it’s a very serious restriction on the ability for Catholic schools to teach children what the Catholic Church says about abortion, that it is morally wrong, that it is the taking of an innocent human life. That is illegal,” he insisted.
“We’re asking this is withdrawn and to allow schools to teach according to the basic principal that parents have a right to have their children educated according to their own religious convictions and that’s recognised in international law, both in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.”