Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2022

My Lords, as the Minister said, there has been and continues to be very significant opposition to...

My Lords, I give my whole-hearted support to the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady O’Loan, ...

My Lords, I speak in favour of the regulations before us this afternoon. As others have said, abo...

My Lords, I am conscious that it is not commonplace for Prelates to comment on matters that exten...

My Lords, it is my firm belief that arguments about devolution are being used to disguise the fac...

My Lords, I commend the noble Baroness, Lady O’Loan, on bringing this amendment to the Motion bef...

My Lords, the moral dilemma of abortion is a fraught and complex one in which I do not intend to ...

My Lords, I fully support the amendment to the Motion introduced by my noble friend Lady O’Loan. ...

My Lords, it is impossible to have a pick-and-mix constitution. I approach this entirely from a c...

My Lords, I did not think I would sit and listen to more than about 10 minutes of this debate, as...

I commend the noble Baroness, Lady O’Loan, on her amendment. I can assure her that if it is pushe...

The availability of the service is much more restricted in Northern Ireland. If I said that the i...

But what he said was somewhat different—however, I want to move forward. I acknowledge that this ...

Would the noble Lord agree that it would perhaps be better if HMG waited until the devolved Assem...

I accept that we long for the devolved Administration to be set up in Northern Ireland, but we al...

It would appear that a majority of the people of Northern Ireland do not wish to see the protocol...

: Not one unionist representative within Northern Ireland supports the protocol. If the noble Lor...

A majority of people recently elected to the Assembly accept the protocol.

: The noble Lord, Lord Cormack, has missed the point of the Belfast agreement. There must be a ma...

My Lords, this has been a very wide-ranging debate, and I think it is important that we focus on ...

My Lords, a lot has been said in this debate already and I do not intend to prolong proceedings u...

My Lords, it is on days such as today, as the Minister may agree, that there is a feeling of déjà...

My Lords, I thank everybody who has participated in the debate on these regulations, and I am gra...

I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way. On a point of factual accuracy, he and others ...

Of course—I am very happy to give my noble friend that assurance.

In conclusion, I urge nob...

My Lords, I thank all those who have spoken in the debate today, particularly those who have spok...