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WOMEN’S rights groups and health workers are joining up today to demand an end to the criminalisation of abortion in Britain.
Women terminating their own pregnancies can still be sent to prison for life under laws created before women could even vote.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and a series of feminist groups are launching the We Trust Women campaign to fight to change the law.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
