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Stormont call to Stopes managers


BY ADAM KULA
newsdesk@newsletter.co.uk

Anti-abortion protestors outside the new Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast yesterday

PICTURE: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Minister to challenge ruling on gay adoption


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THE management of a new Marie Stopes clinic will be invited to appear before a Stormont committee to explain how they intend to operate within the law. There were some verbal exchanges between anti-abortion-

ists and a small contingent of pro-choice campaigners in the hours before the clinic opened its doors in Belfast for the first time yesterday afternoon. Headed by former PUP MLA Dawn Purvis, the centres management says it will operate within the current legal framework, providing medical not surgical

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terminations up to nine weeks gestation with aftercare including counselling. Attorney General John Larkin, Stormonts chief legal advisor, has written to its justice committee asking for it to investigate the clinic to see if any laws are being broken. And when it met yesterday,

the committee called for Marie Stopes representatives to appear and explain how they are ensuring the clinic will operate legally. Health committee member and DUP MLA Jim Wells said: This has become a legal issue rather than a health issue. The public expect us to do something. See pages 4&5

High-ranking gardai were informing PIRA


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