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NI Abortion Act campaign begins | |
(about 17 hours later) | |
A campaign calling for the 1967 Abortion Act to be extended to Northern Ireland has been launched. | |
An amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill would, if successful, allow women in Northern Ireland to have legal abortions. | An amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill would, if successful, allow women in Northern Ireland to have legal abortions. |
Alliance for Choice spokesperson Barbara Muldoon said the current legislation was outdated. | Alliance for Choice spokesperson Barbara Muldoon said the current legislation was outdated. |
"Northern Ireland is already 41 years behind England, Scotland and Wales," she said. | "Northern Ireland is already 41 years behind England, Scotland and Wales," she said. |
"(That's) something that really seems inconceivable, that women in Northern Ireland would be denied a right that their sisters elsewhere in the UK have. | "(That's) something that really seems inconceivable, that women in Northern Ireland would be denied a right that their sisters elsewhere in the UK have. |
"We think, certainly in Alliance for Choice, that change is desperately needed." |
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