Belfast City Hall is to be illuminated on Easter Sunday to celebrate an international campaign to expand abortion legislation globally, despite plans for similar illuminations earlier this year being put on hold due to their controversy.
The decision to illuminate Belfast City Hall on 28 March 2027 was made to celebrate the Global Day of Action to De-stigmatise Abortion after councillors voted the proposals through.
The campaign has claimed that abortion “is a normal part of reproductive healthcare” and explicitly calls for an “end to criminalization” of abortion and advocates “for legal and policy reforms that remove barriers”. The complete decriminalisation of abortion and the removal of all policy barriers would make abortion legal throughout all nine months of pregnancy up until the point of birth.
