A bill to protect unborn children with significant disabilities from abortion has advanced through committee stage at Stormont.

The bill seeks to remove “severe impairment”, which could include Down Syndrome, as a ground for abortion up to birth, which includes a wide-range of conditions.

The DUP, alongside the UUP, voted for First Minister Paul Givan’s legislation in the Assembly’s Health Committee.

People Before Profit and the Alliance party opposed the bill whilst members of Sinn Féin and SDLP abstained from the vote.