The Dungiven mother granted permission by the High Court in Belfast to intervene in a challenge to the new abortion law in Northern Ireland has said she’s appalled at the way she and her daughter have been treated [1] by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Northern Secretary Brandon Lewis, and the way they have gone about imposing abortion on the people of Northern Ireland.
Rosaleen McElhinney, whose daughter Cara Rose has Down Syndrome voiced her upset and concern in The Irish News newspaper, where she talked about the discriminatory abortion law in Northern Ireland that permits abortion up to birth when an unborn baby is detected with Down Syndrome or any other disability.
Ms McElhinney said: “It is bad enough to take action to allow others to engage in discriminatory and eugenic practices. It is something else for the British government to actually intervene on a devolved matter to take to themselves the right to commission discriminatory and eugenic practices because, very properly, the Northern Ireland health minister has refused to commission abortions on this basis.