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<DIV>With effect from today, abortion has been decriminalised in Northern
Ireland. This means that the leading case of R. v. Bourne [1938] –
superseded in England and Wales in 1967 – will no longer be relevant in the
UK. Mr. Aleck Bourne was the surgeon who performed the abortion on the
girl. He was prosecuted and acquitted. The judge’s obiter dicta
slightly relaxed the strict anti-abortion law then in force.</DIV>
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