Campaigners carried the names in boxes and crossed Westminster bridge with balloons and banners.
They were responding to a demonstration by Amnesty International, supported by actors in the Derry Girls TV series, calling on Northern Ireland to decriminalise abortion.
Pro-choice campaigners took a petition to the Northern Ireland office signed by 62,000 people, asking for abortion law to be brought in-line with the rest of the UK.
Terminations are currently a criminal offence in Northern Ireland unless it is done to save the mother, physically or mentally.
Amnesty say the laws are “dangerous and degrading”.
Campaigners travelled with 28 suitcases to represent the 28 women who travel from Northern Ireland every week to get an abortion where it is legal.
28 women are walking over Westminster bridge in solidarity with the 28 women who every week have to fly from NI to rest of the UK for abortions. V moving. #NowForNI pic.twitter.com/UijsgEqtM1
— Ella Berny (@EllaBerny) February 26, 2019
Marion Woods, spokesperson for pro-life group Both Lives Matter told Premier Christian Radio’s News Hour: “We are getting tired of Amnesty using Northern Ireland in this way because actually what they seek is full-scale decriminalisation of abortion across not only Northern Ireland but England, Wales and Scotland as well.
“And secondly we wanted to have the Northern Irish voice…
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