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NORTHERN IRISH campaigners are “dismayed” at the suspended sentence for a woman who took miscarriage-inducing drugs as she was too poor to have an abortion in Britain.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was given a three-month suspended sentence after she bought drugs online to cause a miscarriage in July 2014, when she was 19.
Eight days later her housemates reported her to the police for buying the drugs.
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united 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
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself