Patients, not criminals; Northern Ireland grapples with how to provide legal abortion

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Health, Northern Ireland, Writing

Pregnant women in the province can now have abortions in cases of severe fetal abnormality. But permitted practice in other situations won’t be clear until after a public consultation, writes Niamh Griffin

Since the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland on 22 October,1 women have been attending doctors as patients, not as criminals, as one obstetrician put it.

This story was published by The BMJ November 2019