Northern Ireland's biggest party, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), wants to retain the current law. "The DUP is a pro-life party," it said. "Abortion should be a matter for the NI Assembly." ...

The Republic of Ireland voted on Friday to repeal part of its constitution that effectively outlawed abortion. That change will soon leave Northern Ireland as the only part of either the UK or ...

Westminster has pushed Northern Ireland to fall into line with the rest of the UK when it comes to women's reproductive rights and marriage for same-sex couples.

The continued delay in providing abortion services in Northern Ireland means there are numerous tragic stories like those we see in Three Families amid the chaos brought on by Covid-19. Labour MP ...

The 1967 Abortion Act, which established legal abortion, did not originally apply in Northern Ireland. Now, as in England, Scotland and Wales an abortion can be legally carried out up to the 24 ...

Last year, more than 700 women from Northern Ireland travelled to England for an abortion last year, according to UK Department of Health figures. The number was 100 fewer than the year before.

He will not grant women in Northern Ireland NHS-funded abortion care out of “respect” for the Northern Irish assembly. Now, a week after the Queen’s Speech was read out in parliament, ...

Activists rally in Belfast, Northern Ireland, January 15. In a hearing on November 2, judges will hear the case of a 15-year-old from Northern Ireland who travelled overseas to pay for an abortion ...

The NHS already provides abortion funding for women who live in England, but women in Northern Ireland currently have to pay some £900 (more than $1,100) to terminate their pregnancies privately ...

Northern Irish women gain access to free abortion on the NHS. ... Until now, women from Northern Ireland accessing abortion in Great Britain were forced to pay about £900 for the procedure.

It's time for Northern Ireland's old, discriminatory 1861 abortion statute to end. In Northern Ireland a woman who has been raped or abused can still receive a longer prison sentence than her ...

Supreme Court judges have rejected an appeal from a mother and daughter calling for women in Northern Ireland to receive free abortions on the NHS in England. The two women brought the case after ...