Healthcare professionals and MPs have renewed calls for law reform after a woman was subjected to the “trauma” of a trial having been accused of an illegal abortion. Nicola Packer
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Abortion buffer zones cannot be enforced when clinics are closed, police have said in an email seen by the PA news agency. The legislation – which started as a member’s
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A US government department has said it is “disappointed” by the conviction of a UK campaigner who protested outside an abortion clinic, saying “freedom of expression must be protected for
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An anti-abortion group has been branded “disgusting” and told “you don’t care about the women” as it staged a vigil near a maternity hospital. A woman who lives nearby strode
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A man who gave abortion drugs to a pregnant woman without her knowledge and caused her to lose her baby has had his jail sentence increased by five years at
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Having an abortion based on the sex of the foetus may not be illegal, the Court of Protection has heard. A woman, known only as HB for legal reasons, had
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A woman has walked free from court after prosecutors accepted she did not illegally abort her baby. Sophie Harvey, 25, had previously stood trial accused of procuring her own miscarriage
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A man who gave abortion drugs to a pregnant woman without her knowledge, causing her to lose her unborn baby, has been jailed for 12 years. Stuart Worby, 40, crushed
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New laws come into force preventing anti-abortion protesters from gathering within 200 metres of facilities where abortions are carried out. The implementation of new laws banning protesters from gathering outside
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The number of abortions for women living in England and Wales is at a record level, having risen by almost a fifth in a year. There were 251,377 abortions for
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