The governmentâs failure to establish abortion services for women in Northern Ireland is a âlamentable and deeply troubling exercise in finger-pointing,â the High Court in Belfast has heard.
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) is taking Secretary of State Brandon Lewis, as well as the Northern Ireland Executive and the regionâs Department of Health, to the High Court for a case challenging their failure to commission and fund abortion services.
Abortion laws in Northern Ireland were liberalised in 2019 following legislation passed by Westminster at a time when the power sharing government in the region had collapsed.
However, while individual health trusts have been offering services on an ad-hoc basis, the regulations were brought forward as the Department of Health had yet to centrally commission the services region-wide.
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