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Time for change in Northern Ireland
Time for change is an FPA campaign to change the current abortion law in Northern Ireland.
As the law stands, no woman in Northern Ireland has the automatic right to abortion. This includes women who've been raped, victims of incest and women whose baby has been diagnosed as profoundly disabled or will not live at birth. Women in England, Scotland and Wales are entitled to a legal, safe abortion on the NHS and have been for the last 40 years. Women in Northern Ireland do not have this right.
Modernise the current abortion law in Britain
FPA is campaigning to modernise how abortion services are delivered and to change British abortion law.
There is no such thing as ‘abortion on demand’ in Britain. A woman travels through an old-fashioned bureaucratic set of processes, put in place by the 1967 Abortion Act. This process was created to protect women from back street abortions and reflects a time when new techniques like medical abortion were not available. Apart from a change to the time limit in 1990, the law determining how abortions are carried out has not changed since the 1960s.
How to contact the FPA campaign team
Gerry Halliday, Press and Campaigns Officer
Tel: 020 7608 5264
Email gerryh@fpa.org.uk
Rebecca Findlay, Press and Campaigns Manager
Tel: 020 7608 5265
Email rebeccaf@fpa.org.uk
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