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The U.K. government pushes to expand abortion in the province despite local opposition Pro-life campaigners at the Parliament buildings on the Stormont Estate in Belfast Getty Images/Photo by Paul Faith/AFP
Before March 2020, the number of abortions in conservative Northern Ireland in a given year consistently stayed in the double digits. Women could get legal abortions only if the pregnancy put their lives at risk or posed serious threat to their physical health. But the U.K. Parliament in October 2019 voted
to force Northern Ireland to legalize the procedure. The regulations officially passed on March 31, 2020.
Since then, staff at pro-life medical centers noticed an increase in women coming to them for help. They saw women coming out of healthcare facilities carrying their little brown bags of abortion pills. By March 2021, the region’s Department of Health announced that 1,345 abortions had taken place the previous year even though the North
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By Marie-Louise Connolly & Lesley Anne McKeown
BBC News NI Health Correspondent
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Major change is required if Northern Ireland s emergency departments are to avoid another exceptionally difficult winter, a senior consultant has warned.
Dr Brendan Lavery, who works for the Western Health Trust, said standing still is not an option .
He described the system as currently operating on a knife edge .
The Department of Health said it was a very challenging time for staff with Covid-19 restrictions impacting on an already fragile system .
Speaking to BBC News NI, Dr Lavery likened the situation to Groundhog Day with decade-long problems like capacity and staffing exacerbated by the lingering effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on other healthcare services.
BBC News We simply don t have enough beds, says NI doctor
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Major change is required if Northern Ireland s emergency departments are to avoid another exceptionally difficult winter, a senior consultant has warned.
Dr Brendan Lavery, who works for the Western Health Trust, said standing still is not an option .
He spoke to health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly as BBC News NI was granted special access to the emergency department at Altnagelvin Hospital. We simply don t have enough beds to admit patients to, he said.
The Department of Health said it was a very challenging time for staff with Covid-19 restrictions impacting on an already fragile system .
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