'Voters need to know Sinn Féin is now pro-abortion and the party has utterly betrayed the legacy, vision and hopes of brave people like Bobby Sands'
Hugh Jordan
April 17 2022
It’s safe to say it wasn’t the type of protest Sinn Féin expected to find outside their constituency office in Coalisland this week – a group of people on their knees saying the Rosary.
And leading them was a former IRA commander who spearheaded the terror group’s war in the staunchly republican district.
DUP and Ulster Unionist opposition to 2019 legislation is ‘shameful and disgraceful’, says Michelle O’Neill
Lisa O'Carroll
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Sinn Féin has welcomed a demand by the British government for progress on the introduction of abortion services in Northern Ireland, as the party denounced Democratic Unionist opposition to the provisions as “shameful and disgraceful”.
Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister, Michelle O’Neill, accused the DUP and the Ulster Unionist party of trying to reverse legislation imposed by Westminster in 2019, which provided for terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.
Pro-choice councillor says any move to block rollout of services is ‘against democracy’
July 31, 2021
Pro-choice and anti-abortion campaigners have held separate protests in Belfast amid the deepening political row over the commissioning of abortion services in Northern Ireland.
The small-scale demonstrations in the city centre came after DUP First Minister Paul Givan threatened to block the British government’s move to formally direct Stormont to fully roll out abortion services in the region.
David Young, PA
Mon, 19 July 2021
The UK Government is right to intervene to ensure the provision of abortion services in Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill has said.
The Sinn Fein deputy First Minister’s comments came ahead of an anticipated announcement from Secretary of State Brandon Lewis this week on the ongoing stand-off over the rollout of services in the region.
Continued: https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/uk-government-intervene-ni-abortion-151534373.html
By Jayne McCormack, BBC News NI political correspondent
July 19, 2021
The government will set out further steps this week on the commissioning of abortion services for Northern Ireland, BBC News NI understands.
In March, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis took new powers allowing him to direct Stormont to act.
Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-57882472
Consistent vetoes have blocked the power-sharing government from passing abortion reform in Northern Ireland.
By Julia Canney
Jun 18, 2021
In April, the UK House of Commons formally approved a new directive requiring Northern Ireland’s Department of Health to take “concrete steps” to ensure full abortion services in the north before summer. The directive, which came after years of pressure from inside and outside the north, is the result of the Northern Ireland executive’s delay in commissioning services that were formally decriminalized in 2019.
It is time for Northern Ireland’s secretary of state, Brandon Lewis, to ensure that reproductive rights in the north are safe, legal and accessible to all who need them. The complicated politics of Northern Ireland have led to this dilemma of jurisdiction. The House of Commons was able to decriminalize abortion services in the north specifically because there was no sitting Northern Ireland executive in Stormont. However, now that there has been a sitting government in Stormont for over a year, many are calling for an end to the executive’s stall tactics.
By Jayne McCormack, BBC News NI Political Reporter
March 31, 2021
Exclusion zones should be introduced outside sexual health clinics and pregnancy counselling centres in NI to protect staff and women accessing services, a report has said.
Protests and demonstrations would not be allowed within the zones.
Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-56578466
After Stormont voted to restrict abortion rights, Westminster is intervening to secure the services women are legally entitled to
Susan McKay
20 Mar 2021
Northern Ireland is no country for young women. Out of 87 members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) at Stormont last week, just 12 voted to allow women the right to choose abortion in line with international human rights standards. These are built into a law smuggled into NI while the institutions in Belfast were collapsed in acrimony in 2019, following an inspiring collective effort by local feminists and the British Labour MP Stella Creasy. Jubilant, proud, relieved and tearful, women stood at Stormont with banners that said, simply, “Decriminalised”.
March 15, 2021
A bill which seeks to amend the law in Northern Ireland to prevent abortions in cases of non-fatal disabilities, including Down's Syndrome, has been backed by a majority of MLAs.
The Severe Fetal Impairment Bill, brought by DUP MLA Paul Givan, passed its second stage by 48 votes to 12.
Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-56404024
By Jayne McCormack, BBC News NI Political Reporter
Feb 16, 2021
The DUP has proposed a new law to prevent abortions being carried out in NI in cases of non-fatal disabilities.
NI's abortion laws changed significantly last year following legislation passed at Westminster.
Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-56041850
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