The Sentencing Council has introduced a new mitigating factor for pregnancy and maternity, under which judges will consider the impact of sentences on pregnant or postnatal offenders. Mitigating factors, like
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Families who suffered avoidable harm as a result of hormone pregnancy tests have been “side-lined and stonewalled”, a group of MPs said as they called for a fresh review into
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A Government baby loss certificate scheme designed to recognise the grief of parents who lose a baby early in a pregnancy has been launched. The voluntary scheme offers those who
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A grieving father whose baby daughter died due to maternity failings has said he feels “worthless” following a Supreme Court ruling likely to bar him from claiming compensation. Robert Miller’s
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Campaigners have welcomed the conviction of a Christian preacher who protested in a protected space outside an abortion clinic, saying it shows why national guidance that is not “watered down”
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Criminal sanctions for abortion could be removed in England and Wales under new proposals to be tabled by MPs. Labour backbenchers have outlined plans to move amendments to the Criminal
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Failures in language interpretation in the NHS were linked to about 80 babies coming to harm, with some even dying, according to an investigation. BBC Radio 4’s File On 4
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Millions of women will be able to get free contraceptive pills on the high street without having to see a GP under new NHS plans. Starting next month, women in
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Changes to the law which could have seen couples become a surrogate child’s legal parents at birth will not be taken forward “at the moment”, a health minister has said.
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Women are still being harassed outside abortion services a year after MPs voted to create buffer zones to prevent protesters gathering outside clinics and hospitals, medical and abortion groups said.
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