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Abortion restrictions ending in N. Ireland - because of Brexit
Within the UK, both Scotland and Northern Ireland have a considerable amount of local autonomy. The UK Parliament usually has little say over what happens in Belfast. But the Brexit crisis has caused Northern Ireland Parliament to be unable to elect a prime minister for 3 years, so it's been operating without a government. So the UK Parliament has been effectively ruling Northern Ireland directly.

Pro-choice advocates are using this as a window to overturn some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the Western world and replace them with some of the most liberal.

Westminster will lift Northern Ireland's abortion ban if the north still has no government next month

Quote: In July, British politicians passed a bill which would force the UK government to take steps to legalise marriage equality and decriminalise abortion in Northern Ireland if power is not restored to Stormont before October 22.


Abortion Trumps Self-Rule in Northern Ireland


Quote:Northern Ireland is part of the U.K. but for decades had the right to decide its own laws on abortion.... In July the British Parliament voted overwhelmingly to wipe out the north’s long tradition of protecting unborn children and give the region some of the most liberal abortion laws in Europe. In doing so, Westminster demolished the decadeslong understanding that the British government couldn’t simply impose laws pertaining to important and sensitive social issues on a fractious and fragile Northern Ireland....

The majority of people in Northern Ireland disagree with Westminster’s decision to legalize abortion. Sixty-four percent of respondents to an October 2018 ComRes poll said any decision on whether to change Northern Ireland’s abortion laws should be made by its elected politicians and not by the British House of Commons.
10-08-2019 04:53 PM
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