On 7 June, in an Urgent Question in the Commons immediately following the ruling of the Supreme Court in Human Rights Commission for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland: Abortion) [2018] UKSC 27, Stella Creasy (Walthamstow) (Lab/Co-op) asked the Northern Ireland Secretary “whether sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and section 25 of the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 are incompatible with articles 3, 8 and 14 of the European convention on human rights”. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Karen Bradley, replied as follows: