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It's Dickensian. This is Bleak House we are in today,
in the chancery courts, waiting day after day after day
after day for a decision that never comes. Following a passionate
debate at Stormont, the proposal on fatal foetal
abnormality was defeated by 59 votes to 40. Attorney General John Larkin QC
has advised the change could breach the UN Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disability. They don't know what they're saying,
they've not been through it
in the chancery courts, waiting day after day after day
after day for a decision that never comes. Following a passionate
debate at Stormont, the proposal on fatal foetal
abnormality was defeated by 59 votes to 40. Attorney General John Larkin QC
has advised the change could breach the UN Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disability. They don't know what they're saying,
they've not been through it
Full Transcript
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It's Dickensian.
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This is Bleak House we are in today,
in the chancery courts,
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waiting day after day after day
after day
00:00:09.058 --> 00:00:11.713
for a decision that never comes.
00:00:13.061 --> 00:00:15.696
Following a passionate
debate at Stormont,
00:00:15.072 --> 00:00:18.126
the proposal on fatal foetal
abnormality was defeated
00:00:18.015 --> 00:00:19.059
by 59 votes to 40.
00:00:20.002 --> 00:00:24.001
Attorney General John Larkin QC
has advised the change could breach
00:00:24.001 --> 00:00:26.956
the UN Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disability.
00:00:27.001 --> 00:00:30.401
They don't know what they're saying,
they've not been through it.
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Movie Summary
Dramatisation of three real-life stories of how three families were each affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019.