The woman — who can**t be named for legal reasons — appeared at Belfast Crown Court on Wednesday morning, charged with helping her daughter — who was a mi**r at the time — to have an abortion.*
Women in England, Scotland and Wales have access to free, safe, legal abortions, but 1967's abortion Act, which makes abortion legal in Britain, does **t extend to **rthern Ireland, which forms part of the United Kingdom. * Read more...