Northern Ireland’s strict abortion laws are incompatible with human rights legislation and need “radical reconsideration”, the UK’s highest court has urged. A majority of a seven-strong panel of Supreme Court
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The UK’s highest court is set to rule on a challenge over the legality of Northern Ireland’s strict abortion law. Seven Supreme Court justices in London will announce their decision
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A high-profile Democratic Unionist and former Stormont health minister has compared the abortion regime in Great Britain to the Holocaust. Jim Wells (pictured0 claimed the numbers murdered by the Nazis
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Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at the DUP after it insisted Westminster should not meddle with Northern Ireland’s strict abortion regime. As the Commons was holding an emergency debate on
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Repealing a 150-year-old law that criminalises abortion could eliminate certain safeguards and allow “abortion on demand throughout pregnancy”, MPs have heard. Tory and DUP MPs stood to oppose the proposal
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Karen Bradley has said she personally backs abortion reform – but the Northern Ireland Assembly must be restored to consider the issue to avoid disenfranchising 1.8 million people. The Northern
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The more children a woman has, the greater her risk of heart attack, stroke and heart failure, research has shown. Researchers at the University of Cambridge found having five or
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Sinn Fein has accused the DUP of being out of step with public opinion on abortion, as it expressed doubt some of its voters were defecting to the unionist party
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Prime Minister Theresa May has held discussions on Northern Ireland’s strict abortion laws with Tory MPs pressing for change. With the Commons set to hold an emergency debate on the
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A baby was decapitated after a doctor decided on the wrong method to try and deliver him, a medical tribunal has found. Dr Vaishnavy Vilvanathan Laxman failed to perform an
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