The woman had spent the last six years waiting to go on trial for helping her daughter access an illegal abortion.
The woman, who cannot be named, was accused of buying abortion pills for her then 15-year-old daughter in 2013. It is understood that the woman was reported to police by a GP and child and adult mental health services. “I find it hard to put into words how I am feeling. For the first time in six years I can go back to being the mother I was without the weight of this hanging over me every minute of every day," the woman said in a statement to Amnesty International.
Grainne Teggart, Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland campaign manager, said that the charges being dropped was a"huge relief.""For six years this mother has been treated as a criminal just for helping her daughter access abortion pills that are available on the NHS in every other part of the UK. Now she can finally put the trauma of this ordeal behind her," Ms Teggart said.