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(Right to Life UK<\/a>) New pro-life party Aont\u00fa saw significant gains in last week\u2019s local elections in Northern Ireland, while the MLA who brought forward the Bill to introduce censorship zones around abortion clinics in Northern Ireland lost her seat.<\/p>\n

The local elections held last week on 5 May saw new pro-life party Aont\u00fa receive 12,777 votes, finishing ahead of the long-established party People Before Profit, with commentators saying that Aont\u00fa is in a strong position to win seats at the next local government election.<\/p>\n

Commentators have also\u00a0suggested<\/a>\u00a0that Aont\u00fa gained votes at the expense of the SDLP, who have recently had all of their MLAs vote for introducing censorship zones around abortion clinics. The SDLP lost four of its seats in Stormont, the equivalent of one-third of its MLAs.<\/p>\n

Claire Bailey, leader of the Green Party, also lost her seat. Ms Bailey brought forward the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill that will effectively\u00a0criminalise offers of assistance<\/a>\u00a0within 150m of abortion clinics or hospitals where a censorship zone is in place. Her party had also been explicit in its\u00a0manifesto<\/a>, which explained that they intended to expand abortion access.<\/p>\n

READ:<\/strong>\u00a0Northern Ireland pro-abortion politician \u2018deeply resents\u2019 pro-life group\u2019s pregnancy congratulations<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Pro-life party, the TUV, almost\u00a0trebled its vote<\/a>\u00a0compared with 2017, but Jim Allister remains its sole MLA.<\/p>\n

The other major pro-life party, the DUP, lost three of its seats.<\/p>\n

Right To Life UK spokesperson, Catherine Robinson, said: \u201cIt is encouraging to see that most parties who made explicit pro-life commitments in their manifestos made such gains. Both the SDLP, with its patchy record on pro-life issues, and the Green party, which was explicitly pro-abortion, did poorly in this election with the former losing a third of its seats and the latter losing all of them\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully momentum will continue to grow for the pro-life movement in Northern Ireland and parties and candidates more generally will be encouraged to make their pro-life convictions explicit without fear of losing power\u201d.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: This article was published at\u00a0Right to Life UK<\/a>\u00a0and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

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