Pro-Abortion Judge Steps Down for 'Apparent Bias'

Judge recuses himself from case of Rasharkin woman accused of conducting illegal abortion protest in Coleraine's Causeway Hospital 'safe access zone'

​A judge has recused himself from hearing the appeal of a north Antrim woman who is accused of conducting an allegedly illegal abortion protest inside a Northern Ireland hospital’s “safe access zone”.

Pro-abortion judge steps down for 'apparent bias'

In an unprecedented development, a judge presiding over the appeal of Claire Brennan, the first person convicted under Northern Ireland’s abortion clinic censorship zone law, has recused himself following serious concerns over judicial impartiality and has been forced to order a retrial. County Court Judge Ciaran Moynagh had heard Claire Brennan’s appeal on 2 September, but immediately following this hearing, his extreme activist involvement in …