Martin McGuinness Quotes
We've had a very consistent position down the years. Sinn Fein is not in favour of abortion, and we resisted any attempt to bring the British 1967 Abortion Act to the north.
McGuinness, Martin. Quoted in "Sinn Féin's Position on Abortion Act Outlined by McGuinness." The Irish Times, Irish Times Trust, 19 Oct. 2012.
The speech was given early in his career before he changed is position in 1980 to be Ronald Reagan's running mate. Bush's mother was the head of Planned Parenthood in Connecticut.
James Martin Pacelli McGuinness was an Irish republican Sinn Féin politician and a former leader within the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). McGuinness was the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from May 2007 to January 2017 and was the MP for Mid Ulster from 1997 until his resignation in 2013. Like all Sinn Féin MPs, McGuinness abstained from participation in the Westminster Parliament. Following the St Andrews Agreement and the Assembly election in 2007, he became deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland on 8 May 2007, with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley becoming First Minister. On 5 June 2008, he was re-appointed as deputy First Minister to serve alongside Peter Robinson, who succeeded Paisley as First Minister. McGuinness previously served as Minister of Education in the Northern Ireland Executive between 1999 and 2002. He was Sinn Féin's candidate for President of Ireland in the 2011 election.
