Submitted on Sunday 27th May 2018
Rejected on Friday 1st June 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Provide equality for Northern Ireland with rest of UK on abortion, gay marriage
Northern Ireland has no functioning Assembly and Executive, so is unable to initiate a referendum to provide the right of women to access an abortion or gay people to exercise their right to marry. This petition calls on Parliament to allow people of Northern Ireland to choose equality of treatment.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can’t accept your petition because responsibility for the law on abortion and equal marriage 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 equal marriage and then to change the law in Northern Ireland.
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