Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists hold protests in Belfast

Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists hold separate demos in Writer’s Square Belfast (David Young/PA)

Pro-choice and anti-abortion campaigners have held separate protests in Belfast amid the deepening political row over the commissioning of services in Northern Ireland.

The small-scale demonstrations in the city centre came after DUP First Minister Paul Givan threatened to block the British government move to formally direct Stormont to fully roll out abortion services in the region.