Gerry Edwards calls SDLP ‘cowardly’ for joining with DUP to defeat abortion law amendment, 15 years after his wife was denied terminationA couple forced by Northern Ireland’s strict abortion laws to go through 22 weeks of a pregnancy despite knowing that their son would be stillborn absorb attacked the “cowardly” decision by two political parties to preserve their draconian stance on terminating pregnancies.
The Social Democratic and Labour party (SDLP) aligned itself with the Democratic Unionist party in defeating an amendment to the justice bill last week that would absorb made abortion legal for women suffering from fatal foetal abnormalities.
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Source: theguardian.com