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Thread #164256   Message #3928895
Posted By: Steve Shaw
03-Jun-18 - 06:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: The NI Battle commences
Subject: RE: BS: The NI Battle commences
A cross-party group of women MPs (Conservative, Labour, LibDem and Green) have determined that there is a constitutional way of forcing an emergency debate and vote in the Commons. The vote would not be binding on May but would constitute unstoppable momentum towards liberating the abortion laws in NI. Clearly, that's the last thing she wants to happen as she's in hock to the DUP who would see allowing such a vote as a betrayal. Too bad. Just for once this self-declared "feminist" must do the right thing. Northern Ireland is an integral part of the UK. The abortion laws there are a vile aberration and in the present circumstances the UK government has the responsibility of getting them in line with the rest of the country, and soon.