The Attorney General of Northern Ireland has been granted permission to challenge the province’s abortion ‘exclusion zones’ law through a judicial review. The Bill which would ban pro-life protests outside Northern Ireland’s abortion centres and hospitals providing abortions has consequently been delayed from becoming law, and a date for a hearing of the judicial review […]
Measure to end in August
A group of nurses and midwives have written to the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, to sharply criticise efforts by some TDs to use the coronavirus crisis to further liberalise Ireland’s abortion laws. They say the push was made even as medical professionals are fighting a crisis “some say has not been seen since World War II”. Last […]