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Yes you are right:
Abortion Act 1967 s.1(1)(a)
a person shall not be guilty of an offence under the law relating to abortion when a pregnancy is terminated...[T]hat the pregnancy has not exceeded its twenty-fourth week. (in English it is illegal after 24 weeks)
See my earlier reply for full act. (reply no.6)
But I had a friend at work who only started to show in the third trimesters, before then I she had not told us, you honestly would have not know.
I think if you read the act it says "has not exceeded its twenty-fourth week" so if you had a good lawyer you could possibly be aright up until 24 weeks and 6 days. This is just a possible interpertation, at the end of the day it all depends on the way in which the trial judge interperates the wording of the act. Persoanlly I would like to see the the cut off point lowered.
How screwed up is that, you can be convicted for poisoning yourself?
I don't think the time limits should be lowered, because it is of no concern to the state what a woman does to her own body.
And I made it clear in reply 32, that the section quoted was not in full and to refer back to reply 6.
I was also referring to other acts, away from the Abortion Act 1967.
Mother issues? You'd think anti-choice trolls could come up with some decent enough new material.
I very much doubt it. Marie Stopes will not perform abortions beyond 23 weeks and 4 days, and BPAS use the same doctors who work for MSI. Anyone who turns up at the clinic above that limit are flatly refused. The logistics of performing any abortion beyond 19 weeks are very unpleasant, especially for the woman involved and there's very little you can do to tweak a scan when you've got a clear shot of the foetal head which gives a very accurate measurement of the age of the foetus, which has to be reported to the DoH. That's not even bringing a lawyer into it. A lot of the women aren't in a fanancial position to afford a lawyer, despite the number of hotshots who are willing to get into a Roe V Wade style dealing.
That's certainly not going to help the woman in this case, or Manna Begum.
Yep, I know. I don't mean to be rude, but I work in the law and have a law degree.
Pretty sad all round. I can't see what good prosecuting them both will do.