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Defiant campaigners have swallowed abortion pills in full view of Belfast police - as pressure mounts for a change in the law following neighbouring Ireland's historic vote last week.
Pro-choice campaigners, including members of action group Rosa NI, protested outside Laganside Courthouse today demanding a "medieval" ban on abortions is scrapped.
Last week voters in the Republic of Ireland voted by a landslide to repeal laws making abortions illegal.
One of the women who swallowed a pill told reporters: "I've taken it in defiance of the extremely outdated, mediaeval anti-choice laws that exist in Northern Ireland.
"We're not willing in the wake of the victory for the repeal referendum to be left behind any longer."