On Thursday, a 22-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to charges alleging she illegally administered drugs in order to procure an abortion. The first charges was: “On 6 July 2020 at Stockton, with intent to destroy the life of a child capable of being born alive, by a wilful act, namely administering drugs to procure abortion, contrary to section 58 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, caused the child to die before it had an existence independent of its mother.”
The second charge was: “Between 2 July 2020 and 7 July 2020 at Stockton being a woman with child, unlawfully administered to yourself a poison or other noxious thing, namely misoprostol, with intent to procure your own miscarriage.”
