Tuesday March 31 is the day mandated by Westminster for the implementation of a new abortion framework in Northern Ireland. Our previous law recognised and protected both lives in every pregnancy, meaning that over 100 thousand people, individuals we all know and love are alive today. This has now been swept away and with the publication last week of the legal framework for abortion services, we can see the scale of the societal change we face.
Many NI politicians who supported a change in the law here, repeatedly said they opposed the introduction of the 1967 Abortion Act and yet we have had…
