Women given suspended sentence for using abortion pills in northern Ireland - this law must be destroyed

andrew
Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:51:17 +0000
Medical abortion, Pro-choice, Stormont, Gender, Ulster, News alert, Analysis, Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird

If someone were to tell you that in the modern day UK abortion is illegal you’d probably laugh in their face at such a statement. You’d probably write it off as ridiculous and not worth your time debating considering a simple google search will tell you that abortion has been legal in the UK since 1967. It might then be a surprise for you to hear that just yesterday a woman was handed a three month suspended sentence for two years for having an abortion.

A 21-year-old Co. Down woman who was facing life imprisonment for having an abortion through the use of pills obtained on the internet has been given a suspended sentence. It is understood that after failing to raise the funds to have a legal abortion in England she ordered the drugs, Mifepristone and Misoprostal in order to have the abortion