Women who have abortions and those who assist them can face up to life in prison.
By Karla Adam Karla Adam London correspondent covering the United Kingdom Email Bio Follow May 16 at 3:01 PM LONDON — The passage of Alabama’s strictest-in-the-nation abortion bill has renewed calls to overhaul Northern Ireland’s abortion regulations, which are among the most restrictive in the developed world.
“The law in Northern Ireland is considerably more restrictive than Alabama,” said Fiona de Londras, a law professor at the University of Birmingham. Emma Campbell, co-chair of Alliance for Choice, an abortion rights group in Northern Ireland, said that it’s surprising to see people in Britain who are “flabbergasted at what’s happening in Alabama but have never mentioned Northern Ireland, which in effect has a worse law than what is being proposed in Alabama.”“You and the people you help might actually get arrested, you might have your homes searched and your workplaces raided.
Creasy successfully campaigned for Northern Irish women who travel to other parts of the United Kingdom to have access to funded terminations. Before that change in 2017, a Northern Irish woman who had made her way to England was charged about $1,150 for the procedure.Since the Abortion Act of 1967, abortion in Britain has been legal in most circumstances up to 24 weeks, as long as it’s signed off by two doctors.
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