Abortion: NI regulations pass final Westminster vote
17 June 2020
Abortion regulations which came into effect in Northern Ireland in March have passed their final legislative hurdle in Westminster.
The laws were drafted in 2019 before the restoration of devolution at Stormont.
They allow for terminations in the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy and in some other limited circumstances.
Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-53081992
Government lawyers believed some illegal abortions would never be prosecuted, declassified file reveals
The legal advice has emerged from previously classified government files.
Sam McBride
Monday January 1st 2018
Government lawyers believed that although abortion in cases of severe disability, rape or incest was clearly illegal in Northern Ireland, prosecutors were unlikely to ever take a prosecution because a jury would not convict someone in those circumstances, a previously classified Government file reveals.
The legal advice was sought after a woman from Northern Ireland – the one region of the UK where abortion remains a criminal offence unless it is to save the life of the mother – had in 1992 travelled to Scotland to end her pregnancy.
Continued at source: https://inews.co.uk/news/health/government-lawyers-believed-illegal-abortions-never-prosecuted-declassified-file-reveals/
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