The Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris announced earlier this month he planned to update regulations
Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris announced earlier this month that he planned to update requirements for relationship and sexuality education in the curriculum.
The DUP, which had criticised the proposals, forced a vote in the House of Commons but MPs approved the change in regulations by 373 to 28, majority 345. After the vote, the DUP’s Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart said: “For Northern Ireland’s abortion laws to be indoctrinated into children as acceptable will store up huge problems for the future.
Mr Heaton-Harris brought forward the education reforms in the absence of the Northern Ireland’s powersharing institutions.
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