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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