"Sent to the mainland": how Northern Irish women suffer under restrictive abortion laws

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The near-total ban on abortion in Northern Ireland – where the 1967 Abortion Act was never brought into law – means that women can face up to life in prison if they are found to have procured pills or services to abort.

Grainne Teggart, Northern Ireland Campaigns Manager of Amnesty UK says now is the time for change: “All eyes are on the UK government. They now have a decision to make – they can either remain complicit in the harm and suffering caused by our restrictive laws or they can legislate for much-needed and overdue reform which must include the decriminalisation of abortion.

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“The UK government cannot continue to sustain this inequity. We are not second-class citizens and we will not accept being left behind in this tiny corner of the UK and Ireland having our bodies governed by a piece of law which pre-dates the lightbulb.”

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/05/northern-ireland-abortion-laws-women

Nothing is going to change...while the religious right hold their grip on power the women of Northern Ireland will continue to be denied reproductive justice. I was listening to a debate on this on bbc ni the other day and they are not open to reason, they lack any empathy for women in crisis pregnancies and they have a complete and utter inability to perspective take.