On 7 June 2018, the Supreme Court delivered their long anticipated ruling on whether the abortion laws in Northern Ireland are compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. Although the case was dismissed on procedural grounds, a majority of the court held that, obiter, the current Northern Irish law was incompatible with the right to respect for private and family life, protected by Article 8 ECHR, “insofar as it prohibits abortion in cases of rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormality”. This Supreme Court decision, seen alongside the May 2018 Irish referendum liberalising abortion, and the 5 June 2018 Parliamentary debate seeking to liberalise abortion laws in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, places renewed focus upon the abortion laws of Northern Ireland and Great Britain, which suggests that the ‘halfway house’ of the Abortion Act 1967 Act finally be close to being reformed to hand the decision of abortion to women themselves.

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北爱尔兰的堕胎：卢比孔河是否已越过？

2018 年 6 月 7 日，最高法院就北爱尔兰的堕胎法是否符合《欧洲人权公约》作出了期待已久的裁决。尽管该案因程序原因被驳回，但法院的大多数成员认为，附带一提的是，目前的北爱尔兰法律不符合《欧洲人权公约》第 8 条保护的尊重私人和家庭生活的权利，“就其禁止在强奸、乱伦和致命的胎儿畸形案件”。最高法院的这项裁决与 2018 年 5 月爱尔兰公投放宽堕胎以及 2018 年 6 月 5 日寻求放宽北爱尔兰和英国其他地区堕胎法的议会辩论一起，重新关注北爱尔兰和英国的堕胎法,