10994 1994-95 822A1 Martin Smyth 1995-03-23 leave out from `House' to end and add `notes that people of all denominations in Northern Ireland are united in their opposition to abortion, that the extension of the Abortion Act was opposed by 18 of 19 local authorities which debated the issue, that the Northern Ireland Assembly on 29th February 1984 voted by 20 to 1 against extension of the Act or any like legislation; endorses the statement by the honourable Member for North Antrim that `the overwhelming opposition is amazing, because it stretches from the Unionist parties to the nationalist SDLP. It stretches from churches to the students' union of Queen's University, which in no way would be called a Conservative or right-wing body'; notes that despite Britain's high teenage abortion rate, in Northern Ireland there are fewer teenage births than in Britain; observes that the assertion that the law violates the standards of human rights law rests on the mistaken assumption that there is a `right' to abortion under British law; notes that in Northern Ireland there are no reported cases of pregnant victims of rape being denied abortion nor of women's health being damaged through pregnancies which doctors elsewhere in the United Kingdom would have aborted and that the district obstetric mortality rate in Northern Ireland, at 2.4 per 100,000 births, is the lowest in the United Kingdom and significantly lower than the 6.2 in Great Britain; and resolves to uphold the dignity of women and the right to life of unborn children in accordance with the cultural, religious, medical, ethical and legal traditions of Northern Ireland.'. Martin Smyth 1995-03-23 Proposed Belfast South William McCrea 1995-03-23 Signed Mid Ulster Nicholas Winterton 1995-03-23 Signed Macclesfield Ann Winterton 1995-03-23 Signed Congleton Joe Benton 1995-03-23 Signed Bootle Roy Beggs 1995-03-23 Signed East Antrim David Alton 1995-03-23 Signed Liverpool Mossley Hill Eddie McGrady 1995-03-23 Signed South Down Joseph Hendron 1995-03-23 Signed Belfast West William Ross 1995-03-23 Signed East Londonderry Peter Robinson 1995-03-23 Signed Belfast East Elizabeth Peacock 1995-03-23 Signed Batley & Spen Cecil Walker 1995-03-24 Signed Belfast North James Molyneaux 1995-03-24 Signed Lagan Valley Seamus Mallon 1995-03-24 Signed Newry & Armagh Clifford Forsythe 1995-03-28 Signed South Antrim David Trimble 1995-03-30 Signed Upper Bann Harry Greenway 1995-03-30 Signed Ealing North Thomas McAvoy 1995-03-30 Signed Glasgow, Rutherglen Marion Roe 1995-03-30 Signed Broxbourne Robert Parry 1995-03-30 Signed Liverpool, Riverside Michael Alison 1995-04-03 Signed Selby Vivian Bendall 1995-04-03 Signed Ilford North Alan Beith 1995-04-04 Signed Berwick-upon-Tweed Den Dover 1995-04-04 Signed Chorley Ian Paisley 1995-04-04 Signed North Antrim Ken Maginnis 1995-04-04 Signed Fermanagh & South Tyrone Toby Jessel 1995-04-05 Signed Twickenham Julian Brazier 1995-04-18 Signed Canterbury John McFall 1995-05-03 Signed Dumbarton Michael Lord 1995-05-04 Signed Suffolk Central Bill Cash 1995-05-15 Signed Stafford Gordon Oakes 1995-05-23 Signed Halton David Atkinson 1995-05-23 Signed Bournemouth East Keith Vaz 1995-05-23 Signed Leicester East Andrew Hunter 1995-05-25 Signed Basingstoke Phil Gallie 1995-05-31 Signed Ayr Calum MacDonald 1995-06-06 Signed Na h-Eileanan an Iar Paul Tyler 1995-06-06 Signed North Cornwall David Sumberg 1995-06-07 Signed Bury South Stephen Day 1995-06-15 Signed Cheadle Andrew Welsh 1995-06-21 Signed Angus East Ted Rowlands 1995-07-03 Signed Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney Jeremy Bray 1995-10-16 Signed Motherwell South