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Supreme Court of United Kingdom:<\/strong> The Supreme Court has held by a 3-2 majority that the\u00a0Secretary of State for Health\u2019s failure to enable Northern Irish women to access free abortion\u00a0services under the English National Health Service was not unlawful. The Court observed that\u00a0the Secretary of State was entitled to respect the democratic decision of Northern Ireland not to\u00a0fund abortion services, and to take into account the ability of Northern Irish women to purchase\u00a0private abortion services in England.<\/p>\n

Appellant, a resident of Northern Ireland, had undergone an abortion in a private clinic in\u00a0Manchester. The appellant argued that the respondent\u2019s failure to make a direction so as to\u00a0provide Northern Irish women free abortion services under the English NHS was unlawful,\u00a0since, Section 3(1) of the National Health Service Act required him to make such direction.\u00a0Moreover, the respondent had acted irrationally and unlawfully while taking into account the\u00a0Northern Ireland Assembly\u2019s decision not to provide abortion services. The appellant also\u00a0contended that the respondent\u2019s failure to make a direction violated Article 14 of the European\u00a0Convention on Human Rights taken in conjunction with article 8 because her right to respect for\u00a0private and family life was not secured without discrimination on the ground of usual residence.<\/p>\n

Lord Wilson (with whom Lord Reed and Lord Hughes agreed) noted that under the scheme of Parliament separate authorities in each of the four countries in the United Kingdom had to\u00a0provide free health services to those usually resident there. The respondent was, thus, entitled to\u00a0make a decision in line with this scheme for local decision-making. Further, the human rights\u00a0challenge failed as the difference of treatment between UK citizens present in England on the\u00a0grounds of usual residence fell within the scope of \u201cother status\u201d for the purposes of Article 14.<\/p>\n

The Court noted that the respondent\u2019s decision not to make the direction sought by the appellant\u00a0was rationally connected to his respect for the devolved scheme for health services and the\u00a0democratic decision reached in Northern Ireland, and he could not have reached any decision\u00a0less intrusive upon the Article 8 rights of the appellant. The Court concluded that the respondent\u00a0had struck a fair balance between the appellant\u2019s rights and the interests of the UK community as\u00a0a whole and, accordingly, was justified. [R v. Secretary of State for Health, [2017] UKSC 41,\u00a0decided on June 14, 2017]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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