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Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Bill

No, I will continue, if I may.

New clause 7, which refers to the decriminalisation of sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, goes much further than even the obiter dicta

statements of the Supreme Court judges. It goes much further than referring just to foetal abnormality and seeks much broader changes than the narrow circumstances to which the judges referred, which is a further reason why it should be opposed.

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Reference

648 cc368-9 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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