Labour MPs call for women’s human rights to be protected after woman sentenced in Belfast for terminating pregnancy
The shadow justice minister,Jo Stevens, has written to parliament’s joint committee on human rights, or urging action on the prosecution of women in Northern Ireland for having abortions.[br]The letter is an attempt to trigger a response in Westminster to the sentencing earlier this month of a Northern Ireland woman who took abortion pills to terminate a pregnancy when she was 19. The woman,who has not been named, was given a three-month prison sentence, and suspended over 12 months.
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Source: theguardian.com