Rejected petition Take back responsibility for abortion law from Northern Ireland.

In order to apply the 1967 abortion laws to NI and allow women to exercise control over their bodies without fear of conviction, responsibility for this law must first be retrieved by the UK parliament.
This petition is oart of a 2-step process to ultimately align NI with the rest of the IK.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/261686

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Date submitted 21 May 2019
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