Speaking in the video, Dr Fiona Bloomer, a social policy lecturer at Ulster University, summarises a document published by the Reproductive Health Law and Policy Advisory Group last month.

Dr Bloomer wrote the briefing alongside Dr Kathryn McNeilly, a law lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast, and Dr Claire Pierson, a politics lecturer at University of Liverpool.

A private members’ bill to decriminalise abortion in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has been introduced in the House of Commons by Diana Johnson, Labour MP for Hull North, and is co-sponsored by a coalition of MPs from five different parties.

Ms Johnson was assisted in drafting the bill by Amnesty International, FPA, BPAS, Professor Sally Sheldon and Gordon Nardell QC.