A minister has said advice about whether doctors in Northern Ireland could face criminal charges for sending women and girls to England for an abortion is “completely bogus”. Women and
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The UK Government must respond to a court ruling that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws are in breach of human rights laws, the Women and Equalities Committee has said. The Commons
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A woman who has suffered from a “prolonged, pathological grief disorder” since her daughter was stillborn nearly six years ago has been awarded more than a quarter of a million
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More than 600 emergency Caesarean sections and up to 100 stillbirths could be prevented each year if NHS hospitals followed official guidelines on multiple births, a study has found. The
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The Scottish Government’s decision to allow women to take abortion pills at home is fundamentally flawed because it is not consistent with legislation, a lawyer representing an anti-abortion group has
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Louis Theroux will explore postpartum mental illness in his upcoming BBC Two documentary. Mothers On The Edge will see the filmmaker spending time in two specialist psychiatric units which treat
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More than £50 million will be invested to improve access to mental health services for expectant and new mothers, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said. It is estimated the funding
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The European Court of Human Rights is to raise abortion for women from Northern Ireland with the UK Government, lawyers said. A termination is only permitted in Northern Ireland if
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The UK Government cannot make changes to Northern Ireland’s abortion laws, a parliamentary committee has heard. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Karen Bradley said she did not have the
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Two stars of Channel 4’s Derry Girls have demanded the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland as they delivered a 60,000-strong petition to Secretary of State Karen Bradley. Nicola Coughlan,
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