Overview
- The House of Lords advanced a clause in the Crime and Policing Bill by rejecting two attempts to narrow it.
- The clause states that no offence is committed by a woman acting in relation to her own pregnancy.
- The bill also creates pardons and record expungement for women previously convicted under abortion laws.
- Supporters argue it treats abortion like other healthcare and note that most procedures happen early in pregnancy.
- Coverage shows a sharp divide, with spiked backing decriminalisation as trust in women and the Spectator quoting critics who warn it could allow terminations late in pregnancy.