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UK MPs vote to legalise same-sex marriage and abortion in N. Ireland

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Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom where same-sex marriage is not allowed. Homosexuality was only decriminalised in Northern Ireland in 1982.

Abortions are forbidden except in cases where a mother's life is at risk. Marriage equality was legalised in 2014 in England, Wales and Scotland.

The 1967 Abortion Act made abortion legal in these three countries on a wide number of grounds and was accepted as one of the most liberal abortion laws in Europe when it was enacted.

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