A British woman who was jailed for <a href="https://news.ad-astra.icu/release-imminent-for-woman-who-exceeded-uk-abortion-pill-limit.html” title=”Release imminent for woman who exceeded UK abortion pill limit”>illegally obtaining abortion tablets to end her advanced pregnancy is to be released from prison after Britain’s Court of Appeal reduced her sentence.
The mother of three, who is 45, was handed a 28-month sentence last month after she admitted to obtaining abortion pills to induce a miscarriage when she was 32 to 34 weeks pregnant in 2020.
The pills had been sent to her by post during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 and were meant to be used in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
Abortions in Britain are legal before 24 weeks and must be carried out in clinics after 10 weeks of pregnancy.
The prosecution said the woman had used her computer to search “how to hide a pregnancy bump”, “how to have an abortion without going to the doctor” and “how to lose a baby at six months” on the internet from February to May 2020 and lied to a pregnancy advisory service, saying she was seven weeks pregnant so she could obtain the abortion pills.
After receiving the drugs and ingesting them, she gave birth. The baby was pronounced dead after a call to emergency services.
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