Stella Creasy has hit back at an anti-abortion party who are focusing their general election campaign on unseating her. The Labour candidate for Walthamstow, a vocal campaigner for abortion rights,
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Only one in three women would tell their family if they were considering abortion, according to a new poll. The survey of 2,684 women aged over 18 for Marie Stopes
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A judge has questioned a council plan for the care of a baby whose mother has learning disabilities and was at the centre of a court abortion battle. Mr Justice
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Abortion has been decriminalised in Northern Ireland after a landmark law change came into force at midnight. The legal reforms voted in at Westminster have also paved the way for
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The first sitting of the Stormont Assembly in two-and-a-half years has ended in acrimony after a last-minute bid to thwart the decriminalisation of abortion was blocked. Despite the ongoing absence
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The Stormont Assembly will sit for the first time in two and half years later after it was recalled by MLAs wishing to protest at changes to Northern Ireland’s abortion
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Abortion reforms in Northern Ireland risk being slowly unpicked by UK ministers, the Commons has heard. Northern Ireland minister Robin Walker confirmed Westminster is legally required to allow access to
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A woman with learning disabilities who was at the centre of an abortion battle has given birth, lawyers have said. The woman’s mother, a Catholic former midwife, had earlier this
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A woman with learning disabilities, who was at the centre of an abortion battle, should be fitted with a contraceptive device, a judge in a specialist court has decided. The
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Doctors will be asked to use expert discretion to determine when an unborn child can survive outside the womb after abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland. Medics have been urged
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