Protests as Ireland's 1st abortion clinic opens
Source: Associated Press
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- The first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland opened Thursday in Belfast, sparking protests by conservatives from both the Catholic and Protestant sides of Northern Ireland.
The Marie Stopes family planning center will offer the abortion pill to women who are less than nine weeks pregnant - but only if doctors determine they're at risk of death or long-term health damage from their pregnancy.
That's the law in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, where abortion is otherwise illegal.
But more than 200 protesters opposed to abortion under any circumstances gathered outside the central Belfast clinic hours ahead of its opening Thursday, waving placards reading "Keep Ireland abortion free."
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We have this oddity over here where abortions are legal in the rest of the UK but not NI.
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