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Legalise abortion in Northern Ireland

Submitted on Friday 17th May 2019

Rejected on Tuesday 18th June 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Legalise abortion in Northern Ireland

Petition Details

The penalty for abortion in NI can be life imprisonment. The UN has said that it violates the human rights of women. Sign this to bring Northern Ireland in line with the rest of the UK

Additional Information

The Northern Ireland assembly has collapsed and therefore cannot change any law, this is a breach of human rights and must be changed now.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

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