A draft of the UK Labour Party’s election manifesto reveals that they would extend the UK’s abortion regime to Northern Ireland. The document states that Labour would “continue to ensure a woman’s right to choose a safe, legal abortion – and we will legislate to extend that right to women in Northern Ireland.” The 1967 Abortion Act, which legalised the practice in Britain, never applied to Northern Ireland where abortion is available only in very limited circumstances. According to the BBC, there were 16 abortions in Northern Ireland in 2014/15, compared to 184,571 in England and Wales. This does not include the number of Northern Ireland women who travel to Britain each year for abortions.