abortion in northern ireland

Theresa May dreamed it would come to this. With the foresight of the truly fretful politician, she invoked the mythic links between Toryism and Unionism in her speech on the day she became leader of her party and the unelected prime…

In July 2014 a nineteen year old Northern Irish girl procured illegal abortion pills to self induce a termination. The woman received a three month suspended jail sentence this week after appearing at the Belfast Crown Court. She was…