Photo: Rudy and Peter Skitterians/PixabayA 44-year-old woman was sentenced to over two years in prison because she took the abortion pill after the legal deadline. The law on the basis of which she was sentenced dates from 1861
A number of British activists and parliamentarians protested violently after a woman was sentenced to more than two years in prison for taking the abortion pill after the legally prescribed period, "The Guardian" writes.
The mother of three received the abortion pills in the mail, after a long-distance consultation, based on the regulations introduced during the pandemic.
The prosecution accused her of knowingly misleading the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (British Pregnancy Advisory Service BPAS) saying that she had not reached the tenth week of pregnancy, which is the legally prescribed term for terminating an unwanted pregnancy. Doctors later determined that the fetus was between 32 and 34 weeks old at the time the pill was consumed. In England, Scotland and Wales, termination of pregnancy is legally allowed up to 24 weeks, but after 10 weeks the intervention must be done in a clinic.
During the trial, the convicted woman admitted that she was guilty and, based on the law from 1861, she was sentenced to a prison sentence of 28 months, of which 14 months were suspended.
The judge, writes "The Guardian", said that the woman did show "deep and sincere remorse", but that she "knew for sure that her pregnancy had exceeded 24 weeks and that she knowingly lied" in order to get the abortion pills. .
Her attorney said his client "needs family and support," not jail. The verdict was pronounced in March.
Outdated laws
The judge ignored the appeals of many activists and doctors to reduce the defendant's sentence.
BPAS manager Claire Murphy said she was "shocked and appalled by the verdict" and that "in the last three years, the number of women and girls who are exposed to the trauma of long-term police investigations after termination of pregnancy, and who, based on archaic termination of pregnancy laws, are even threatened with and life imprisonment".
The chairwoman of the Party for Women's Equality, Manu Ryde, said she was "devastated for the woman who finds herself at the center of this process and her children who will be forcibly separated from their mother."
And the Labor deputy Stella Crazy said that the British laws on termination of pregnancy are a relic of "some other time", that they do not put health assessment in the foreground, but criminal sanctions. This case, he says, shows the extent to which the failure to change those laws is reflected in today's times.
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