Call to overhaul ‘out of date’ UK abortion laws after woman jailed

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

Abortion legislation is “very much out of date” and should be overhauled, the chair of the Commons women and equalities committee has said, after a woman was jailed for procuring drugs to induce an abortion after the legal limit.

There was outrage on Monday after the woman, a mother of three, was sentenced to more than two years in prison.