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CAMPAIGNERS said today that a High Court upholding of the ban on Northern Irish women receiving free NHS abortions in England simply exposed “outdated and restrictive laws.”
The ruling came in a test case brought by a girl, referred to only as “A.”
In October 2012, a then 15-year-old A and her mother travelled to a Marie Stopes clinic in Manchester to have a pregnancy terminated, having been denied in Northern Ireland.
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
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
