A WOMAN who had to travel to England to terminate a pregnancy, even though doctors had said the baby would not live, has met the deputy First Minister to lobby for a change in the law.
Sarah Ewart has called on the executive to allow terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.
She met deputy First Minister, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, yesterday afternoon. She is also due to meet health minister Michelle O'Neill and justice minister Claire Sugden over the next week.
Ms Ewart said she felt "sick of being treated as a political inconvenience" and vowed not to "be silenced".
She said despite promises a working group would be set up to look at fatal foetal abnormality, no group has ever been established.
"I, and many women like me, have been failed time after time by our politicians," she said.
She pointed out that the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called for reforms to the north's abortion laws.
"Coming on top of the Belfast High Court ruling in December that the Northern Ireland ban is a breach of the rights of women like me, it is clear that the case for a change in our laws is overwhelming," she said.
