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Call to overhaul ‘out of date’ UK abortion laws after woman jailed The Guardian says Abortion legislation is “very much out of date” and should be overhauled, the chair of the Commons women and equalities committee has said, after a woman was jailed for procuring drugs to induce an abortion after the legal limit. There was outrage on Monday after the woman, a mother of three, was sentenced to more than two years in prison. She received the medication under the “pills by post” scheme, which was introduced during the Covid pandemic for unwanted pregnancies up to 10 weeks, after…

Outrage as mother-of-three jailed for taking abortion pills after legal cut off The Independent says Parliament must consider overhauling the “out-of-date” law used to jail a mother-of-three who illegally obtained abortion tablets to end her pregnancy during lockdown, a senior Tory has said. Caroline Nokes, chairwoman of the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, joined women’s rights groups in calling for reform to the 1861 legislation used to prosecute Carla Foster. The 44-year-old was given a 28-month extended sentence after she admitted illegally procuring her own abortion when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant. Abortions are generally only legal…

UK abortion laws: MPs seek change after woman jailed The Times says MPs and campaigners have said UK abortion laws are “out of date” after a mother who used a pill-by-post scheme to induce an abortion after the legal limit was jailed. The woman, who was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant when she took the pills, was jailed yesterday for 28 months and ordered to serve half her sentence in prison. Her prosecution relied on a statute dating from 1861, with the judge rejecting pleas from campaigners for a non-custodial sentence saying it was his duty to “apply the…

Woman, 44, jailed for taking abortion pills after UK legal time limit The Metro says A woman who illegally organised her own abortion by taking medication has been jailed. The woman, who is not being named, already had three sons before becoming pregnant again in 2019. She didn’t speak to her doctor because she was ’embarrassed’, Stoke-on-Trent crown court was told on Monday. She called the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) during the coronavirus lockdown in May 2020 and lied about how far along she was. The BPAS then sent her abortion-causing drugs.

Today’s news summary – Paper Talk Many of Tuesday’s front pages lead with a UK politics story. Some papers are picking up on the Privileges Committee report whilst others lead with the ongoing war of words between PM Rishi Sunak and former prime minister Boris Johnson. Sunak and Johnson row  The ongoing spat between Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson – over the former PM’s resignation honours list, makes several splashes. The Metro calls it an “all-out war” between the two and describes them as trading “vicious blows.” The Daily Mirror says the two are bickering “like toddlers” and on the…

The former Prime Minister will step down ‘with immediate effect’.

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The coach and producer is no longer with All Elite Wrestling.

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