Amnesty International and the Family Planning Association (FPA) are hosting a delegation of Labour MPs in Belfast today, led by Shadow Secretary of State Owen Smith to consider the law on abortion in Northern Ireland.
This visit follows multiple failed attempts by Amnesty International to pressure the Northern Ireland Assembly to change the law on abortion in Northern Ireland, including a petition submitted to the Northern Ireland Assembly where no checks were put in place to ensure that the signatories were from Northern Ireland, or that people could sign the petition more than once and under different names.
Since the…
