Submitted on Tuesday 5th April 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 6th April 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Decriminalise abortion in Northern Ireland immediately.
Last week, Donald Trump remarked that women who have abortions should be punished somehow. Rightly, this was met with a widely publicised outcry of condemnation. Yet in Northern Ireland, women are punished for having abortions, because it is a criminal offence. This must change. Now.
"Today, in the United Kingdom, a woman has been found guilty of having an abortion. It’s a horrifying idea – one which should have been long relegated to the annals of history, but which is sadly still the reality for a woman living in Northern Ireland in 2016." - The Independent.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/today-in-the-uk-a-woman-was-sentenced-for-the-crime-of-having-an-abortion-yet-we-act-outraged-at-a6968356.html
This law must change. Abortion should be immediately decriminalised.
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