The Government has admitted that it is no longer a criminal offence for a woman to intentionally deceive a doctor about the gestation of her baby in order to receive abortion pills by post beyond the legal time limit in England and Wales, at any stage of pregnancy, right up to birth.
The Government has published an Equalities Impact Assessment on the ‘abortion up to birth clause‘ in the Crime and Policing Act 2026, which makes it no longer illegal for women to perform their own abortions for any reason, including sex-selective purposes, and at any point up to and during birth.
