BPAS and Doctors for Choice have each launched campaigns for the decriminalisation of abortion in the UK. Read more here.
Think the UK is progressive when it comes to abortion? Think again. Under the Abortion Act 1967 , abortions are only considered “legal” up until the 24-week mark. Anyone who terminates a pregnancy after that point can be subjected to a penalty as harsh as a life sentence in prison. Last June, 44-year-old Carla Foster was sentenced to 28 months in prison after she had an abortion at 32-to-34 weeks. The sentence shocked and outraged many around the country.
As Chloe Laws wrote for GLAMOUR last year: “There's a sense that the rollback of reproductive rights in the USA has emboldened anti-choice lobbyists in the UK.' Katherine O’Brien, associate director at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service , even previously explained to GLAMOUR, “The 1967 Abortion Act, and our ability to end a pregnancy, lie in the hands of politicians, and over the past 10 years we have seen a number of parliamentary bids to restrict abortion safely and legally”.
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