{"id":2749,"date":"2016-04-16T18:34:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T10:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/16\/access-to-abortion-in-the-uk-isnt-as-legally-solid-as-you-think\/"},"modified":"2016-04-16T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T10:34:17","slug":"access-to-abortion-in-the-uk-isnt-as-legally-solid-as-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/16\/access-to-abortion-in-the-uk-isnt-as-legally-solid-as-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Access to abortion in the UK isn't as legally solid as you think"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LONDON \u2014 In a landmark ruling last week, a woman in Northern Ireland was given a suspended prison sentence for buying abortion pills on the Internet to induce a miscarriage.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>unnamed\u00a0woman’s conviction prompted outrage and protests across the UK with human rights campaigners calling\u00a0for urgent reform to Northern Ireland’s abortion law.<\/span><\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: In Northern Ireland, women still face prison for having an abortion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

However, that case highlights a broader issue\u2014 abortion is<\/i><\/span>n’t<\/i> actually legal in any part of the UK. The abortions performed every year are happening because they fall under specific criteria that have been\u00a0<\/span>decriminalised. This status quo means that many women beyond Northern Ireland are\u00a0faced with difficult and often distressing circumstances when they seek to have a pregnancy terminated.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LONDON \u2014 In a landmark ruling last week, a woman in Northern Ireland was given a suspended prison sentence for buying abortion pills on the Internet to induce a miscarriage. The\u00a0unnamed\u00a0woman’s conviction prompted outrage and protests across the UK with … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1968,1966,1967,1501,760],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-abortion","tag-abortion-access","tag-abortion-rights","tag-northern-ireland","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}