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Tory MP speaks out amid anger over 44-year-old’s sentence for taking abortion pills beyond legal limit

What are the at home abortion drugs? And what rules govern abortions in the UK? Everything you need to know after the shocking case of Carla Foster who illegally ended a pregnancy at 34 weeks.

A 44-year-old was given a 28-month extended sentence after she admitted illegally procuring her own abortion late in her pregnancy.

She was given a 28-month extended sentence for illegally procuring her own abortion when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant

When the news broke yesterday of a woman in England who was convicted of having an abortion, I felt completely devastated for her.

Caroline Nokes MP is calling for abortion law reform after a woman was jailed

The prosecution of a woman who took medical abortion pills after the legal limit during the first UK lockdown has sparked calls for national legal reform

Carla Foster, 44, of Barlaston, Staffordshire, already had three sons before she became pregnant again in 2019, and moved back in with her estranged partner when lockdown began.

Carla Foster was given a 28-month sentence after using abortion pills when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant.

A law dating back to 1861 has been used to prosecute a mother of three for taking abortion pills to end her own pregnancy in the UK