Victims 'should be given choice'

'Lhisagh reih ve currit' da dreihyn

Ben ynnydagh haink dy ve torragh kyndagh rish ruggyr neuappee, t'ee er woalley er-ash rish ny va grait ec troddanee 'pro-life'.

Ta Deborah McCann gra dy re 'shenn emshiragh' ny barelyn focklit magh ec Life Isle of Man - shen nagh lhisagh ruggyr neuappee ve jeant son dreihyn.

Haink Malcom Newton rish er Mandate Jelune, myr va co-choyrle heayagh bentyn da aa-chummey leighyn Manninagh son ruggyr neuappee çheet gys jerrey.

Kyndagh rish ny leighyn t'ayn nish, mannagh vel dreihyn va goit er-egin recortey yn loght rish ny lughtyn-reill, cha vod ad ruggyr neuappee y gheddyn.

Agh Deborah, va soit er fo skynn tra v'ee shiaght-jeig, as hooar ruggyr neuappee ny s'anmagh, t'ee gra nagh lhisagh caveat ve ayn.

Dooyrt Deborah: 'T'eh jeeaghyn dy re dreihyn va goit er-egin er nyn reih er-lheh ec troddan pro-life. Ta mee coontey shen dy ve faghidagh. As y faaue dy derragh mraane cummey foalsey er yn loght, as yiarragh ad "Oh, ta mish er ve goit er-egin" dy gheddyn ruggyr neuappee, er lhiam dy re flout t'ayn. Quoi erbee ta credjal ny gra shen mychione peiagh erbee, lhisagh ad y chooinsheanse as yn annym oc y scrutaghey'.


Victims 'should be given choice'

A local woman who fell pregnant through rape has hit back at comments by 'pro-life' campaigners.

Deborah McCann says the views expressed by Life Isle of Man - that victims should not be given abortions - are 'archaic'.

Malcolm Newton appeared on Mandate on Monday  as a public consultation on reforming Manx abortion laws drew to a close.

Under the current legislation, rape victims are entitled to a termination only if they report the crime to the authorities.

But Deborah, who was attacked at knifepoint aged 17, and later underwent an abortion, says there should be no caveat.

Deborah said: 'The way victims of rape seem to have been singled out by the pro-Lffe campaign, I frankly find offensive. And the intimatiion that women would fake the fact and would say "Oh, I've been raped"  just to get an abortion,  I just think is an insult and whoever who believes that or says that about anybody frankly needs to examine their conscience and their soul"'.