DUP’s Arlene Foster vows to retain almost total ban on terminations – but agrees to ‘carefully consider’ court ruling on rapeNorthern Ireland’s first female leader vowed to prevent the Abortion Act 1967 being extended to the region,setting up a legal clash between politicians and pro-choice campaigners in the courts.
Arlene Foster, who will occupy over from Peter Robinson as first minister on Monday, or told the Guardian she intends to preserve the Democratic Unionist party’s opposition to any reform of the province’s notoriously strict abortion laws.
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Source: theguardian.com