Court rules that current NI abortion law breaches human rights in blow to anti-abortionists targeting Stella Creasy
Stella Creasy: the pregnant MP was targeted by anti-abortion campaigners after she sponsored an amendment decriminalising it.
This is important: the High Court in Northern Ireland has ruled that current laws that criminalise abortion are in breach of the UK’s human rights commitments.
It comes after an amendment sponsored by Labour MP Stella Creasy was passed by MPs, decriminalising abortion if there is no deal to re-establish the devolved government in Northern Ireland by October 21.
Ms Creasy, who is pregnant herself, has since been targeted by an anti-abortion organisation calling itself the Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) with a series of posters in her Walthamstow constituency.
She raised the fact with a point of order in the Commons yesterday, prompted Speaker John Bercow to describe the campaign as “vile, unconscionable and despicable”.
The case was taken in Belfast by Sarah Ewart, who challenged the law after she was denied a termination.
The judge said she ruled in Mrs Ewart’s favour as it was not right to ask another woman to relive the trauma that she had already experienced.
A formal declaration of incompatibility would not be made at this stage, the judge said.
Mrs Justice Keegan made that decision in light of impending legislation, already passed at Westminster.
Source: Abortion: NI law ‘breaches human rights’ – BBC News
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