At the stroke of midnight on Monday, Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion and same-sex marriage laws came to an end
The changes were imposed by lawmakers in Westminster, who had given Northern Ireland a deadline until October 21 to restore its assembly at Stormont or have the laws changed directly from London. Despite the Stormont assembly meeting on Monday morning for the first time in three years, it was unable to prevent the amendments that meant same-sex marriage would be legalized and abortion would be decriminalized in the province.
— 🎃 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕯𝖊𝖗𝖕𝖋𝖆𝖈𝖊 𝕲𝖎𝖗𝖑 🎃 October 21, 2019 Less pleased was Northern Ireland's Democratic Union Party leader, Arlene Foster, who after the leaving the chamber said,"it is a very sad day," according to Reuters.
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