Human rights campaigners have lost a Supreme Court appeal over the legality of Northern Ireland's abortion law.
The court dismissed an appeal brought by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC).
But a majority of judges said the existing law was incompatible with human rights law in cases of fatal foetal abnormality and sexual crime.
The commission lost on the issue of whether they had the required standing to bring the case.
This, judges said, would have required the case being brought by a woman who was pregnant as a result of sexual crime or who was carrying a foetus with a fatal abnormality.
As a result, the judges did not make a formal declaration of incompatibility, which would normally lead to a change in the law.
Any change in the law will now be up to the politicians, either in Belfast or Westminster.
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