LGBT rights in Northern Ireland while the DUP and all but four of the UUP members (who were granted a conscience vote) voted against. On 2 November 2015, the Northern Ireland Assembly voted for a fifth time on the question of legalising same-sex marriage. Of the 105 legislators who voted, 53 were in favour and 51 against, the first time a majority of the Assembly had ever voted in favour of same-sex marriage. However the DUP again tabled a petition of concern signed by 32 members, preventing the motion from having any legal effect. In February 2016 local LGBT publication The Gay Say started an
Abortion in the Republic of Ireland voted in favour of repealing the Eight Amendment. The national result was: A draft of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 was published by the Department of Health in July 2018. Several polls have been taken on the subject: Abortion in the Republic of Ireland Abortion in Ireland is currently illegal unless it occurs as the result of a medical intervention performed to save the life of the woman. Reform is now underway, after a referendum was passed in 2018, replacing the Eighth Amendment, which had given equal value to the life of the unborn foetus to