In Northern Ireland, abortion rights groups clamour for change

Abortion rights activists in Northern Ireland called on the British government to end what one group described as the province's "Victorian-era abortion ban" after neighbouring Ireland voted by a landslide to liberalise its laws.A socially conservative province where the Catholic and Protestant faiths exert strong influence, Northern Ireland allows abortion only when a mother's life is in danger.The penalty for undergoing or performing an unlawful abortion is life imprisonment.