There have been calls to finish a 'capsule by mail' residence abortion service after a person was jailed for utilizing abortion tablets obtained by a scheme to finish a girl's being pregnant with out her information.
Stuart Worby was jailed for 12 years final week after he sexually assaulted a girl after which secretly gave her crushed abortion tablets in orange juice, resulting in the loss of life of her unborn youngster at 15 weeks pregnant.
Worby obtained the tablets by asking a buddy to pose as a girl who needed abortion tablets from a clinic in London to make use of in a house abortion.
Proper to Life UK has known as for a full investigation into the clinic that equipped the tablets and a right away finish to using mail order tablets.
Catherine Robinson, spokeswoman for Proper To Life UK, stated: “Had residence abortion not been launched, Stuart Worby wouldn’t have been capable of acquire these tablets from this abortion supplier and this tragic case wouldn’t have occurred.”
Earlier this yr, greater than 800 medical doctors wrote to MPs calling for an finish to the capsule by submit and warning of the dangers of late-term abortions carried out at residence with out a private medical session.
A 2023 authorities assessment discovered that complication charges for abortions at 20 weeks or later have been greater than 160 occasions greater than abortions carried out at earlier levels.
That is the second main mail-order capsule case after Carla Foster was prosecuted final yr after admitting she lied about her gestational age to acquire abortion tablets that led to the miscarriage of her unborn child between 32 and 34 weeks .
