Our thanks to Helen for this. Being a BBC piece, commentary on the judgement is sourced only from those keen for women to have no punishment for killing their unborn children, regardless of circumstances. The 44-year-old women informed BPAS that she was seven weeks pregnant and received abortion drugs. In fact she was 32-34 weeks pregnant. An extract:
Labour MP Stella Creasy called for “urgent reform”.
“The average prison sentence for a violent offence in England is 18 months,” she said in a tweet.
“A woman who had an abortion without following correct procedures [J4MB emphasis: breaking the law is now ‘without following correct procedures’] just got 28 months under an 1868 act – we need urgent reform to make safe access for all women in England, Scotland and Wales a human right.”
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Well I’m amazed she was prosecuted. The 1967 act is far too rarely enforced to its letter. The real weakness in the Act is that it relies on the honesty of the medics to apply the criteria seriously, and consequently the huge proportion of abortions sanctioned supposedly because of risk to “mental health” (98% of abortions are carried out using this ground). https://www.bpas.org/get-involved/campaigns/briefings/abortion-law/
The de facto existence of “abortion on demand” is not the Law, and certainly not what David Steele and Parliament expected back in the 1960s. They placed far too high a reliance on the good faith of Doctors.
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