Call for law reform after woman 'convicted for being too poor to travel for abortion'

The Abortion Rights Campaign want an immediate reform of abortion laws in Ireland, after a young Belfast woman who bought drugs online to miscarry was given a suspended prison sentence yesterday.

The ARC, which campaigns for law reform in the Republic and also works with campaign groups in the North, said that had the 19-year-old lived in any other jurisdiction in the UK, she would have been able to legally access abortion services on the NHS.