Yesterday a woman received a 28 month sentence, with over a year in custody, for using abortion pills to end her pregnancy. Humanists UK has reacted with shock and horror, and calls for immediate action to reform abortion law in England and Wales.
Carla Foster, a mother of three, will spend 14 months in custody and a further 14 months on licence, as she took abortion bills outside the legal limit using pills at home during the pandemic. Ms Foster was initially charged with child destruction which she denied and later pled guilty to an offence under a Victorian law, the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act.
I’m interested where you got that information, because I think you are wrong about some of the facts of the case.
The web searches I’d read about were things like “How to get an abortion at 6 months”, which were considered aggravating circumstances as it reinforced that she was fully aware of what she was doing.
There is certainly a case for keeping law’s up to date, but equally this country has been very well served by having a sufficiently sensible law that abortion is not a live political issue.