May refuses to relax Northern Ireland abortion rules

British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a showdown with ministers and members of parliament in her Conservative party after refusing to back reform of Northern Ireland's highly restrictive abortion rules after neighbouring Ireland's vote to liberalise its laws.Voters in Ireland, a once deeply Catholic nation, backed the change by two-to-one, a far higher margin than any opinion poll in the run up to the vote had predicted.The prime minister is facing calls from within her cabinet to scrap the s