Submitted on Monday 28th May 2018
Rejected on Monday 4th June 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Hold a Parliamentary vote to relax abortion restrictions in Northern Ireland
After last weekend's vote on the 8th, Northern Ireland is the only place in Europe apart from Malta where there is a near total ban on abortion. It's only allowed in cases where the life or mental health of the mother is at risk and thousands of women are forced to travel to the UK every year.
There has been no devolved government in Northern Ireland since its collapse in January 2016, which means that MPs can vote to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland, and make its laws around this simple medical procedure in line with the rest of the UK and Europe. We petition for the Government to move legislation to do so in this Parliamentary term.
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 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 change the law in Northern Ireland.
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