My abortion made me realise how restrictive the UK’s pregnancy laws are
Seven women have been prosecuted in the UK for terminating their pregnancies since Roe v Wade was overturned in the US, writes Amelia Loulli. In order to help secure women’s rights, we must work to fully decriminalise abortion – before it’s too late
Abortion must be free, legal and available to all pregnant people
Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade last year, news stories telling of the suffering the new abortion bans are causing across America have begun to read like something out of a dystopian novel.
There have been stories of women forced to carry non-viable foetuses to full-term only to watch their babies suffer and die. These very real narratives, which feel like they could have been penned by Margaret Atwood, reached a crisis in Texas last month with the blocking and eventual denial of a court-ordered abortion for 31-year-old mother of two, Kate Cox.
Cox’s pregnancy involved a fatal foetal anomaly, the continuation of which, doctors agreed, would put her future fertility, her health and even her life at risk.
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