“There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (via philosophybits)
Campaigners in Northern Ireland celebrated on the stroke of midnight as abortion and same-sex marriage became legal for the first time in history.
Northern Ireland was the only place in either the United Kingdom or the island of Ireland without equal marriage, and where abortion was outlawed in almost all circumstances.
Equal marriage and abortion — subject to certain conditions — was already legal in the rest of the United Kingdom, and there had been continued pressure on the government to bring Northern Ireland into line.
The Supreme Court had already ruled that Northern Ireland’s strict laws were incompatible with human rights, and the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women found that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws meant that women were “subjected to grave and systematic violations of rights through being compelled to either travel outside Northern Ireland to procure a legal abortion or to carry their pregnancy to term.”
However, ministers had been reluctant to act saying the issues had been devolved to Northern Ireland’s Stormont Assembly.
The amendments to the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill allowed Stormont – which has not sat since January 2017 after power-sharing broke down – to step in and overrule Westminster if it has resumed before Oct. 22, but despite the DUP returning on Monday to protest the new law, without Sinn Fein MLAs there, their bid to halt the legal changes failed.
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