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The UK government must "wake up" and decriminalise abortion in Northern Ireland, Tory MPs have told the BBC. Anna Soubry, Nicky Morgan and Heidi Allen said Westminster must step in to protect women's human rights.
Northern Ireland's Assembly - which legislates on healthcare - collapsed 21 months ago, and a new poll suggests two-thirds of Northern Ireland citizens would support Westminster intervening.

The UK government said it was for Northern Ireland politicians to decide.
Currently abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland unless there is a serious risk to a woman's life or health. Conservative MP Anna Soubry told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that she wanted her party "to wake up to this and take responsibility. "Real people are suffering in a way that is absolutely intolerable in this day and age," she added.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-45719000


Is it time for Westminster to step in and sort out the abortion question in Northern Ireland? The UN has stated that women's rights are being violated. Westminster says that only the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly has the power to change the abortion law as they have responsibility for healthcare. But the Assembly hasn't been able to put aside their differences and sit for almost two years now. And is it a healthcare question when abortion in Northern Ireland is a criminal act? Surely then it's a legal matter rather than a healthcare question?

I'm of the mind that as the Assembly has all but crumbled and is no longer serving the interests of the people in NI, then Westminster has to act.

What do you think?