Northern Ireland abortion law: Reform ‘a feminist test for May’

May 29, 2018 by Jill

from BBC News:

Labour has challenged Theresa May to show she really is a feminist by backing reform of Northern Ireland’s strict abortion law.

Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti said women in Northern Ireland “have been let down by privileged women and men for too long”.

She said the PM was a “self-identifying feminist” and “the test of feminists is whether they stick up for all women”.

Following Ireland’s historic vote, the PM has been urged to liberalise NI law.

MPs from all parties – including within Mrs May’s own cabinet – have already called on her to support a change in Northern Ireland, which is more restrictive than the rest of the UK.

Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party which is propping up Mrs May’s minority government, previously said the landslide pro-abortion vote in Ireland had no impact on Northern Ireland.

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