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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what is the estimated annual cost of payments from public funds to private sector abortion clinics in England to carry out abortions for patients from Northern Ireland; whether, under equalities and anti-discrimination legislation, there is a requirement for a similar level of resources to be made available to women who choose not to end their pregnancies; what assessment they have made of the estimate by Both Lives Matter that over 100,000 people are alive in Northern Ireland today, who would not be alive had the Abortion Act 1967 been applied there; and what advice they have sought from Law Officers about the lawfulness and the ethics of seeking to disregard in one part of the UK the lawful provisions applicable in another part of the UK.  HL2613

Question HL2613: tabled on 26 October 2017 and due for answer by 9 November 2017

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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what is the estimated annual cost of payments from public funds to private sector abortion clinics in England to carry out abortions for patients from Northern Ireland; whether, under equalities and anti-discrimination legislation, there is a requirement for a similar level of resources to be made available to women who choose not to end their pregnancies; what assessment they have made of the estimate by Both Lives Matter that over 100,000 people are alive in Northern Ireland today, who would not be alive had the Abortion Act 1967 been applied there; and what advice they have sought from Law Officers about the lawfulness and the ethics of seeking to disregard in one part of the UK the lawful provisions applicable in another part of the UK.  HL2613
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