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NORTHERN IRISH campaigners are “dismayed” at the suspended sentence for a woman who took miscarriage-inducing drugs as she was too poor to have an abortion in Britain.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was given a three-month suspended sentence after she bought drugs online to cause a miscarriage in July 2014, when she was 19.
Eight days later her housemates reported her to the police for buying the drugs.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER
