My Lords, your Lordships will be very open to different ways of resolving this issue, but it is a fact at the moment that some 28 women a week travel from Northern Ireland to Great Britain for the purpose of having an abortion, because it is not possible to access these services in Northern Ireland. So whether it is theoretically legal or not, women in Northern Ireland are not able to access these services at the moment, so to all intents and purposes abortion is not available to them.
Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 30 October 2018.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Bill.
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Session
2017-19
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2018-10-31 13:55:59 +0000
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