Brolly likens abortion to 'global holocaust' ahead of public meeting

Representatives of pro-life group ‘Cherish all the Children Equally’ have hit out at language used by pro-choice groups ahead of a meeting in Dungiven.

The group’s Ulster branch is to hold its first public meeting at the Owenbeg GAA centre from 8,00pm tomorrow evening.

Former Limavady Mayor Anne Brolly (pictured) and her husband Francie are urging people to go along and “learn the truth about abortion,” which they say is being obscured by “made up words” used by pro-choice groups and the media.

“We think that people now need to look and open their eyes and use the language that is truthful language,” Mrs Brolly said.

She said she believed ‘fatal foetal abnormality’ was a made up term that should not be used in discussions about abortion.

“There is not such a word in the medical books and the doctors have told us that there is no such word,” she said.

“Now where did this word come from, because it strikes terror into the heart of the mother that hears it? There is no such word, it is another made up word by the pro-abortionists. The people who want to kill the babies in the womb.”

Mrs Brolly described Cherish all the Children Equally as a human rights group and compared it to the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement.

“Now the most fundamental right that we all have, the right to life has been totally disregarded,” she said.

The group aims to encourage people in the Republic to vote to keep the eighth amendment – which acknowledges the ‘right to life of the unborn’ – in the upcoming referendum. The group will also oppose motions that would see the laws regarding abortion relaxed in the north.

In a statement the group said that Cherish all the Children Equally “seeks to protect the lives of Irish citizens whether they live for an hour or a century.” Their meeting on Thursday evening will feature a “very powerful video presentation and prominent speakers from the medical and other professions.”