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A landmark decision by the US Supreme Court to end the constitutional right to have abortions has caused global shockwaves – including in Northern Ireland.
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....