By Katerina Vittozzi, news correspondent
Pro-choice campaigners in Northern Ireland have celebrated "an historic moment", as abortion and same-sex marriage become legal for the first time.
Grainne Teggert, from Amnesty UK, told Sky News: "It marks the end of inequality both for same sex couples who have long wanted to marry the person they love, and also for women who have been suffering at the hands of our abortion ban.
"And it brings Northern Ireland in line with the rest of the UK".
The new laws are a result of amendments put forward in Westminster, by backbench Labour MPs, this summer.
Blocking the changes would have required Northern Ireland's currently-defunct devolved government to have started operating again.
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The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) tried to table a parliament sitting on Monday, the first in more than two-and-half years, but opposition parties did not attend.
Arlene Foster, DUP leader, called it a "sad day" with regards to the changes to the abortion law, which is seen in Northern Ireland as the most contentious of the two topics.
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"I know some people will seek to celebrate and I would say to those people think of those of us who are sad today and who believe that this is an affront to human dignity and to human life," she said.
Previously, women in Northern Ireland could only legally access an abortion when the pregnancy would cause a long-term and serious risk to the mother's physical or mental health.
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