People from County Fermanagh were among those who attended last Saturday's Rally For Life at Stormont.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) Westminster MP's are due to vote on an amendment that could see the 1967 Abortion Act extended to Northern Ireland. Because of the ongoing failure on the part of the DUP and Sinn Féin to allow Criminal Justice powers to be devolved, issues such as abortion continue to be decided at Westminster.
While all four main political parties here are against abortion, a NI survey commissioned by the Family Planning Association (FPA) found that over 60 per cent of the 690 men and women questioned supported the right of women to terminate pregnancy in cases of rape and incest.
Its director, Dr Audrey Simpson claimed the findings indicated that NI politicians were out of step with public feeling.
"These statistics cannot be ignored and show that MLA's have a responsibility to give women in Northern Ireland the choice to have an abortion."
Pro life supporters, including members of the group, Precious Life, travelled by bus from Enniskillen to the rally. Among them was Precious Life member, Dermot McAtamney from Enniskillen.
"There was cross Party support for the Rally", he said. "The Catholic bishops in the North described the attempt to force the 1967 Abortion Act on Northern Ireland as a direct attack on the democratic process, since all the main political parties here have expressed their opposition to the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act."
Mr McAtamney said he was against abortion because it killed babies and harmed women: "We can't be silent about this. Abortion has killed nearly seven million babies since it was introduced to the UK in 1967. We do not want this in our country."
Iris Robinson, a DUP Assembly member, referred to figures which showed that, in 2006, 98 percent of abortions in England and Wales were for social reasons.
"Only 0.4 percent were for a risk to the life of the mother."
Pat Ramsey, the SDLP MLA, described the Rally as a march to defend the most fundamental civil right of all, the right to life. However, the Alliance Assembly member, Anna Lo, who is pro-choice, said tomorrow's amendment was the last chance to liberalise the law on abortion.
"I think that no change in the law would be very sad for Northern Ireland.", she stated.
Meanwhile, a Fermanagh priest told the 'Herald' that in a situation where a woman has had an abortion, 'we have to be non-judgemental and supportive of that woman'.
He went on: "My own position is very clear. I hope that the Abortion Act is never extended to Northern Ireland. Certainly, that would be my very strong view, but it isn't just we don't want it at our own back-door. I would be against abortion generally. Yet, in a situation where someone has had or has an abortion, we have to be non-judgemental and supportive of the woman."
