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Will Northern Ireland now look to the Republic for abortion rights – or...
On the face of it, you’d think it’s a non- question. It just couldn’t happen in Northern Ireland where the direction of travel is surely the other way. But in the States, Roe v Wade, the essential...
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What can Evangelicals learn from #repealthe8th
It was the closing celebration at New Wine in Sligo last summer, arguably Ireland’s largest gathering of Evangelical Christians. If you’re familiar with these events, the final evening is a vibrant...
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Make no mistake about it, this was an important judgement for human rights in...
On the 7th June 2018 the Supreme Court finally delivered its judgement on Northern Ireland’s abortion laws. Activists and lawyers have been waiting for the ruling with baited breath. The decision comes...
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Abortion Alliances Transcending Orange and Green
One of the first things I became involved in through the Belfast Feminist Network was a short play about abortion. It attempted to tell the stories of women’s experiences accessing abortions from...
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The Churches are backing themselves into a corner of Northern Ireland’s...
Following on from the testimony of Gerry Lynch and Elizabeth Nelson, it’s hardly a surprise that the continuing revolution in faith and morals over abortion and LGBT rights won elsewhere but not...
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Processions Belfast – Pro-Choice Groups Bring Political Energy to a...
As the participants for the Belfast event of the UK-wide art project Processions gathered at Titanic Slipway yesterday, it was clear that something exciting was happening. Thousands of women were...
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The Paradox of the Positive: Re-Examining American Independence Day
Ever since I moved to Belfast I’ve made a point of celebrating the Fourth of July, Independence Day. While I quickly learned that the parades from my childhood don’t have the same meaning here, I clung...
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Future Ireland / Unity: Telling a Different Story
“There was never any moment in our history when slavery was not a sleeping serpent. It lay coiled up under the table during the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention. Owing to the cotton gin...
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UK government under new pressure from MPs to move on NI abortion law reform
Photograph: Niall Carson/PA The all –party Women and Equalities committee of MPs is demanding that the UK government puts pressure on the Assembly –if it resumes – to reform the province’s uniquely...
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Abortion is a sensitive and complex issue which is why decisions around it...
Carla Lockhart is a Lurgan based DUP MLA for Upper Bann. Here she challenges the attempt by some Westminster MPs to include a number of changes to Northern Irish law within a piece of legislation...
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There is a clear ministerial and Parliamentary majority for supporting these...
Emma Campbell is Co-Chair of Alliance for Choice As one of the Co-Chairs of Alliance for Choice I am encouraged by the possibility of movement on both abortion rights and equal marriage in Westminster...
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Westminster stuns the local parties with the challenge: pass abortion and...
You’ve read about the campaigns. Now read about the victory. The day started with an anti climax. Dominic Grieve’s bid to thwart any attempt to deny parliament a vote on No Deal wasn’t called by the...
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By acting on abortion and equal marriage, Westminster has changed the dynamic...
One day in politics can change everything. The Northern Ireland Executive Formations Bill was, until the 9th July, an uninteresting piece of legislation. It proposes to amend the Northern Ireland...
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Total Recall: Assembly Edition
Last week 31 MLAs including the DUP, TUV and UUP signed a petition and sent it to the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly. That petition has led to a recall of the institutions. Tomorrow, the...
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Now and Then
TW: This article contains references to sexual and domestic violence. On the 24th October 2017, the UK Supreme Court considered Northern Ireland’s abortion laws. The case was taken by the Northern...
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DUP’s Paul Givan wrote to AG yesterday (not in June) asking if NI Assembly...
A DUP spokesperson rebutted the claim made in this blog post: “This was a typing error. The date should have read 20th October rather than 20th June.” Hopefully their bill drafting was more accurate...
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How Covid-19 is affecting the new laws on abortion…
The COVID19 crisis has brought with it a lot of alarming news, like that of a young woman who tried to take her own life, when refused an abortion at a local hospital, despite abortion now being legal...
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The suspension of Northern Ireland’s new abortion regulations under pressure...
The Irish News story on 8 May THE British government last night withdrew controversial abortion regulations for Northern Ireland before they could be put to the vote in Parliament next week. It means...
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In review: why the abortion debate landed where it landed
To begin with, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 specifically authorises Parliament to make laws for Northern Ireland (Section 5(6)) and, in return, the Northern Ireland Assembly to amend laws made by...
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The curious case of the Department of Health
Abortion has been legal in Northern Ireland for over a year now. Under the Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020, terminations up to 12 weeks are now lawful. Abortions after 12 weeks are heavily...
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