Picture: Handout/AlamyActivists have called for "outdated" abortion laws that saw a mother-of-three jailed for illegally terminating her pregnancy outside the legal limits to be reformed, after a court ordered the woman to be released from prison.
But three judges at the Court of Appeal in London on Tuesday reduced her prison sentence to 14 months and agreed that it should be suspended. "Now is the time to reform abortion law so that no more women are unjustly criminalised for taking desperate actions at a desperate time in their lives."We urge Parliament to take action and decriminalise abortion as a matter of urgency so that no more women have to endure the threat of prosecution and imprisonment.
She said: "We are enormously relieved to hear that Carla Foster will leave custody, and applaud Dame Victoria's statement at the Court of Appeal that this case calls for compassion, not punishment. The Court of Appeal was told that the prison in which Foster has spent 35 days has refused to allow her any form of communication with her three children, one of whom is autistic.
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