Labour MP Stella Creasy, who led the campaign to drop the charge for abortions, has created a cross-party group of politicians urging for the government to provide the same level of access in Northern Ireland as there is across the rest of the UK.
Currently, an abortion in Northern Ireland is allowed only if a woman’s life is at risk or there is a serious or permanent risk to her mental health.
Creasy wrote a letter to Home Secretary Amber Rudd this week urging the government to overrule current laws on abortion in Northern Ireland.
It came as new research shows there has been a 14 per cent rise in women from Northern Ireland having free NHS abortions in England since charges were abolished by the government last June.
Tim Martin director of CARE in Northern Ireland said abortion is an issue that is strictly devolved to Northern Ireland and should be treated as such.
He added: “This is a clear example of the principle of devolution being severely compromised.
“That Westminster would consider overruling the view of the democratically elected Northern Ireland Assembly to impose contentious laws should ring alarm bells for Scotland and Wales too.”
CARE said the letter seems to rest on a report by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) that found that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws “breaches Northern Irish…
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