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Women still facing arrest after vote to decriminalise abortion
The Observer
|March 15, 2026
At least three women have been investigated for illegally ending their pregnancies since MPs voted to decriminalise the procedure last June.
The Observer story in May 2025.
One woman was arrested in the bereavement room after a miscarriage when she was 17 weeks pregnant. Staff had alerted police because they were worried for her safety.
In a vote last June on an amendment to the crime and policing bill, 379 MPs voted to remove women from the criminal law in relation to their own pregnancy. More than 40 medical, legal and public health bodies and experts had been calling for the reform of abortion law in England and Wales after a rise in investigations and prosecutions of women.
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