Submitted on Sunday 27th May 2018
Rejected on Friday 1st June 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Hold referendum in Northern Ireland on abortion reform.
The 1967 Abortion Act, which established legal abortion, was never applied in Northern Ireland and still operates under the 1945 Life Preservation Act. In light of recent events in the rest of the island of Ireland and the continuing non existence of devolved Assembly a referendum should be called.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can’t accept your petition because responsibility for the law on abortion in Northern Ireland is devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Even though the Northern Ireland Assembly is not sitting, the UK Parliament hasn’t formally taken back responsibility for this issue.
You could start a new petition calling on the UK Parliament to change the law, to take back the responsibility for the law on abortion and then to legislate for a referendum in Northern Ireland.
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