Northern Ireland Secretary of State Brandon Lewis talks to UTV Political Editor Tracey Magee for View From Stormont.

The Secretary of State removes barriers preventing the health service from acting.

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Abortion rights demonstrators rally, Saturday, May 14, 2022, on the National Mall in Washington. Demonstrators are rallying from coast to coast in the face of an anticipated Supreme Court decision that could overturn women’s right to an abortion. 

The nationwide movement follows a leaked draft opinion suggesting the court's conservative majority would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. 

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Pro-choice groups are calling for buffer zones, with one woman recounting how she felt 'traumatised' by a vigil when she opted for an abortion at 19.

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The US president's comments come after the leak of a Supreme Court document suggested the 1973 decision that legalised abortion nationwide could be overturned.

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A leaked document suggests the US Supreme Court could be in favour of overturning a landmark ruling giving women safe, legal access to abortions.

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The mum, from East Yorkshire, gave birth in a toilet at York hospital after taking abortion medicine believing her baby was just 12-weeks-old. 

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Brandon Lewis has said it is unacceptable that access to basic abortion healthcare is not available as it is across the rest of the UK

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The Welsh Government has said temporary arrangements for women and girls to have early medical abortions at home have been made permanent.

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12 states have passed trigger laws, which would automatically ban abortion if Roe was overruled, meaning millions of women would lose access to abortions.

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Vienna, 12, and 18-year-old Paxton spoke to ITV News ahead of next week's landmark Supreme Court ruling on abortion.

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Mr Justice Colton declined to make any order compelling Brandon Lewis to set out a timetable for the provision of abortion services.

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The judge halted the law, telling the US state: "This court will not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right".

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A lawyer for the Secretary of State was responding to a challenge to his client for acting amid a Stormont impasse.

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Signs carried slogans such as “mind your own uterus”, “I love someone who had an abortion” and “abortion is a personal choice, not a legal debate”.

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