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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abortion laws: MPs seek change after woman jailed The Times says MPs and campaigners have said UK abortion laws are “out of date” after a mother who used a pill-by-post scheme to induce an abortion after the legal limit was jailed.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…

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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.

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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…

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