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CAMPAIGNERS said today that a High Court upholding of the ban on Northern Irish women receiving free NHS abortions in England simply exposed “outdated and restrictive laws.”
The ruling came in a test case brought by a girl, referred to only as “A.”
In October 2012, a then 15-year-old A and her mother travelled to a Marie Stopes clinic in Manchester to have a pregnancy terminated, having been denied in Northern Ireland.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
Police guidelines suggesting home searches and digital checks for women who experience pregnancy loss under suspicion of having broken the outdated 1967 Abortion Act have sparked uproar, writes PEOPLES’ HEALTH DISPATCH
