Senior MPs have urged the Government to intervene over abortion laws in Northern Ireland after ministers agreed a £1 billion deal with the Democratic Unionist Party. Tory Anna Soubry and
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Abortion should be decriminalised, medics at the British Medical Association (BMA) have said. Delegates at the BMA’s annual meeting in Bournemouth voted in favour of a motion calling for a
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A mother and daughter who lost a legal bid for women from Northern Ireland to receive free abortions on the NHS in England have urged a government minister to intervene.
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There has been a 17% rise in the last decade in the proportion of women who are already mothers having abortions, figures show. New data from the Department of Health
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The UK’s highest court has narrowly rejected an appeal by a mother and daughter in their legal battle for women from Northern Ireland to receive free abortions on the NHS
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An online abortion service can offer an alternative to unsafe methods of ending pregnancies, a study of women in Northern Ireland and the Republic concluded. Almost 95% of interventions were
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One of Britain’s biggest abortion providers put women at risk by failing to adequately train staff and neglecting to obtain proper consent from patients, a watchdog report has revealed. Staff
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Almost three quarters of people in Northern Ireland want changes to the region’s restrictive abortion laws, according to a new Amnesty International poll. The survey found 72% wanted abortion permitted
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A paediatric pathologist in Northern Ireland has quit after claiming the region’s strict abortion laws forced a couple to abort their baby in England and bring home the remains in
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A free helpline for women who have used online abortion pills is to be launched across Ireland. The confidential “aftercare” support from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) will provide
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