Sign the petition to try to extend UK abortion rights to the women of Northern Ireland.
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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland, and grant women there the same rights to abortion as women in the rest of the United Kingdom.
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We believe that the UK Government and the Northern Ireland Assembly should extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland, and grant women there the same rights to abortion as women in the rest of the United Kingdom.
As the law currently stands, no woman in Northern Ireland with an unwanted pregnancy (including women who’ve been raped, victims of incest, diagnosed with fetal abnormality/disability) has the automatic right to abortion.
Consequently, Northern Irish women:
• Pay the emotional and financial costs (up to £2,500) and travel to England or overseas for a private abortion.
• Have babies they have already decided they don’t want.
• Buy illegal and unsafe abortion pills on the internet in desperation.
fpa believes Parliament should change the law to end the discrimination against Northern Ireland women and give them the right to choose.
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