In **rthern Ireland, women still face prison for having an abortion
 

In **rthern Ireland, women still face prison for having an abortion
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LONDON — In England, Scotland and Wales, women have access to free, safe, legal abortions. But, across the Irish Sea in **rthern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, women face prison sentences if they buy the very same medication used in legal abortions.

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Though there are echoes of Donald Trump's statement that women who have abortions should face "some sort of punishment"; for one 21-year-old woman in **rthern Ireland this punishment became a reality Monday when she was handed a suspended prison sentence for using*"a poison" to self-abort. * Read more...


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