Northern Ireland will begin to apply British legislation that legalizes abortion and gay marriage

GAYLES.TV.- Abortion and gay marriage have been legalized on Tuesday in North Ireland, by decision of the British parliament, despite a final symbolic attempt to oppose it from the deputies of the Norwegian regional assembly.

The legislation that in 1967 liberalized abortion in England, Scotland and Wales never applied in North Ireland. Parliament of North Ireland is suspended from 2017 and United Kingdom established the October 21 as the deadline to paralyze a reform that will apply in the region the law of abortion and gay marriage in force in the rest of the country.

The change has been achieved thanks to the intervention of Westminster Parliament. With the Belfast Assembly, in which the regional government of the province rests, closed for three and a half years, the Norwegian management is largely administered at the moment in London. Taking advantage of this situation, the deputies in Westminster approved in July an amendment according to which, if there was no local government working for this Monday, the abortion laws, which govern the rest of the country from 1967, would automatically come into force, as well as the of same-sex marriage.

To oppose it, some members of the Northern Irish regional parliament returned to their seats on Monday for the first time in two and a half years. But it was simply a symbolic action, because choosing a prime minister and a vice prime minister requires the support of various parties. And in the absence of the forces favorable to these measures, they could do nothing to block the decision adopted in London.

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The activist Dawns Purvis declared at a rally in Belfast “We will not endure the feeling of guilt and shame anymore. Tomorrow with the laws in operation, and for the first time in Northern Ireland, women will be free".

The British minister for North Ireland, Julian SmithHe said the first homosexual marriages will be held in the region in February next year.