during lockdown in a controversial legal case that campaigners fear could have wide ranging ramifications for abortion rights in the UK.
Labour MP Stella Creasy has backed the calls for “urgent reform” of UK abortion law. She wrote on Twitter: “The average prison sentence for a violent offence in England is 18 months. However, he said this was “inappropriate” and sentenced the woman on the basis of the law as it stands., Hannah Al-Othman, who attended court, reported that the Crown’s case was that the woman knew she was over the 10-week time limit and provided false information when acquiring the abortion pills.
“Unless the law is reformed, more women and girls will face the trauma of lengthy police investigations and the threat of prison,” BPAS said. These changes came under the 1967 Abortion Act, but it did not include Northern Ireland, where there was a ban on abortion in most circumstances until late 2019.