Failure to establish abortion services in NI ‘exercise in finger-pointing’, court told

Les Allamby, Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (Brian Lawless/PA)

The British government’s failure to establish abortion services for women in Northern Ireland is a “lamentable and deeply troubling exercise in finger-pointing”, the High Court in Belfast has heard.

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission is taking Secretary of State Brandon Lewis, as well as the Northern Ireland Executive and the region’s Department of Health, to the High Court for a case challenging their failure to commission and fund abortion services.