72 Reasons Not To Vote On Party Preference Alone, Or Where To Vote LibDem!

Some years ago Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, wrote an excellent article regarding how we should decide who we vote for, in which he said, ‘If a candidate who supported terrorism asked for your vote, would you say, “I disagree with you on terrorism, but where do you stand on other issues?” I doubt it.’ He points out that you would quite rightly know that this candidate’s position on terrorism meant that their ideas on other issues were irrelevant, and you would choose how to vote on this one issue, which in this case would be of paramount importance. Father goes on to say, ‘So why do so many people say, “This candidate favours legal abortion. I disagree.

But I am voting for this person because she has good ideas about healthcare (or some other issue).” His point is, that if a candidate does not believe in the right to life of everyone, then all of their other policies are irrelevant. To Brexit or to Remain, to have a free market economy or a planned socialist economy, to have the right to buy your council house or not, doesn’t really matter if you have not had the right to be born.

Often we see pro-abortion Labour MPs trying to put amendments into government bills to support their views. As these amendments have come from Labour MPs, the Tories tend to reject them and the Bill passes in it’s unamended form. Earlier this year the government’s Health and Care Bill went to the House of Lords where Liz Sugg, a Conservative Lord added an amendment that would allow abortion pills to be posted to women to use at home. If you have followed this campaign for and against ‘pills by post’ abortions, you may know that the scheme is a cheap, dangerous ploy that increases the number of abortions (profits) and the number of hospital admissions while preying on vulnerable women and offering them little or no support before, during and afterwards. This measure had been allowed during lockdown and the COVID pandemic, as a temporary measure by the Government which it had planned to cease this autumn. The Bill with this horrendous amendment in it then went back to the House of Commons where 72 Tory MPs voted for this amendment. You should at this point have a quick look at how your MP voted on Wednesday the 30th of March 2022. If your MP voted for this you should of course contact them and inform them that you will never vote for them again.

I myself do not live in the Constituency of Westmorland and Lonsdale. But I’m fairly sure that Westmorland gets a number of mentions in my favourite Shakespeare play, Henry V. But here is a funny thing, if I did live in that constituency I would in fact vote Liberal Democrat, while I have never really been accused of being a liberal. The local MP there is Mr Tim Farron, a pro-life Christian who on the 30th of March this year voted against the Tory Lord’s amendment, and thus voted to defend unborn children. It was also a vote to help their mothers avoid the horrors of abortion, particularly the added horrors of abortion at home.

One young women who has spoken publicly of her ordeal, Natalia, who went through a DIY abortion at home tells us, ‘I remember somehow getting to the toilet, it was unbearable the pain, and that’s when I passed my baby. I looked down and saw him, it wasn’t like a heavy period, it was like a baby. I must have flushed it down the toilet and I remember just falling to my knees’ Natalia continued; ‘I just lay in my bed and I was bleeding through the mattress, and I laid there for about three days on my own’ – her mother still unaware of what was going on.

Even four Labour MPs had the decency to vote against this amendment. So there you have it, you cannot just vote for a party in elections, we have local candidates and we need to know where the candidate stands on the fundamental right to life of unborn children. If more than one of your candidates is in fact pro-life, then by all means look at where they stand on other secondary issues and vote accordingly.

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This article originally appeared in the now defunct print edition of The Mallard. This author strenuously denies that the inclusion of his article in The Mallard, in any way lead to that magazines decline!