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Ireland’s abortion vote sparks calls for change in Northern Ireland

It is now the only place in either the UK or Ireland to ban terminations in almost all circumstances

Irish ayes are smiling
|BELFAST

ALTHOUGH the people of Ireland voted to overturn the country’s ban on abortion on May 25th, in one part of the island the restrictions continue. In Northern Ireland, unlike the rest of the United Kingdom, abortion has never been legal except in the rarest of circumstances.

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