Sinn Fein leader Michelle O'Neill in Westminster, central London, after the Supreme Court ruled that the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission had no legal standing to bring its challenge against the abortion law. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture d
THE UK is facing mounting pressure to reform abortion laws in Northern Ireland after Supreme Court judges said they were incompatible with human rights legislation.
Pro-choice campaigners demanded action after a majority of Supreme Court judges said the ban on terminations in cases of rape, incest or fatal foetal abnormality needed “radical reconsideration”.
While the majority of judges expressed a view that the current regime is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights they did not go so far as to make a formal declaration of incompatibility - a move that would probably have forced a law change.
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