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04-12-2016, 01:50 PM
Women in Europe are uniting to fight anti-abortion laws
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LONDON — On Saturday after**on, a group of women gathered outside London's West End Central Police Station to hand themselves in. Their crime, having an abortion.
With placards bearing the words "arrest me," protesters were told by police they "had **t committed a crime."*
SEE ALSO: In **rthern Ireland, women still face prison for having an abortion (http://mashable.com/2016/04/05/abortion-rights-**rthern-ireland/)
The response shows the stark contrast between abortion law in England and that in a**ther part of the United Kingdom — **rthern Ireland — where a 21-year-old woman was recently convicted because of an abortion she had as a teen.
The protestors were also there to show solidarity with a second **rthern Irish woman who is awaiting trial for helping her daughter obtain abortion pills.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/abortion-protest-**rthern-ireland-poland/)
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LONDON — On Saturday after**on, a group of women gathered outside London's West End Central Police Station to hand themselves in. Their crime, having an abortion.
With placards bearing the words "arrest me," protesters were told by police they "had **t committed a crime."*
SEE ALSO: In **rthern Ireland, women still face prison for having an abortion (http://mashable.com/2016/04/05/abortion-rights-**rthern-ireland/)
The response shows the stark contrast between abortion law in England and that in a**ther part of the United Kingdom — **rthern Ireland — where a 21-year-old woman was recently convicted because of an abortion she had as a teen.
The protestors were also there to show solidarity with a second **rthern Irish woman who is awaiting trial for helping her daughter obtain abortion pills.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/abortion-protest-**rthern-ireland-poland/)
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