A dangerous precedent is being set in the US right now, as women’s healthcare is under enormous threat. Protect legal abortions in the UK!
In the last year, dozens of women in England and Wales faced police investigation for the ‘crime’ of abortion. Meanwhile, a Bill in Parliament aims to take away women’s abortion rights. Add your name if you agree abortion should be covered by medical regulations, not criminal law, just like other medical procedures.
Since 1967, the Abortion Act has given permission for doctors to provide an abortion if two clinicians decide that the pregnancy is more detrimental to the person’s physical or mental health than what would be caused by a termination. However many people don’t realise that, outside of these conditions, abortion remains a crime in England and Wales.
We want to protect legal abortions in England and Wales for all time by taking abortion out of the criminal code, where it sits now, and establish that the right of a woman to control her body is a basic human right that should be recognised explicitly in law.
Sign the petition and tell the Secretary of State for Justice and the Health Secretary:
Abortion shouldn’t be a crime. It’s a human right and basic healthcare.
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