Mom Jailed in UK for for Aborting baby 8 month After Pregnancy

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A 44-year-old mother of three was sentenced Monday to more than two years in an English prison for medically inducing an abortion about eight months into her pregnancy.

Justice Edward Pepperall in Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court said the "tragic" case required him to balance the woman's reproductive rights with the rights of the fetus and said the sentence might deter others from exceeding the 24-week limit on abortions.

Pepperall said the mother could have avoided prison if she had pleaded guilty sooner and that he was sentencing her despite her "deep and genuine remorse" and the fact that her children, including one with special needs, would suffer without her.

"You are wracked by guilt and have suffered depression," Pepperall said. "I also accept that you had a very deep emotional attachment to your unborn child and that you are plagued by nightmares and flashbacks to seeing your dead child's face."

The woman was 32 to 34 weeks along when she induced a miscarriage in May 2020 using medication intended for the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, the judge said.

The woman obtained the pills during the COVID-19 pandemic when the restrictions were loosened to allow abortion drugs to be delivered by mail. The woman lied when she told a pregnancy advisory service she was seven weeks pregnant and she continued to lie to others, including police, the judge said.

Evidence found the woman had conducted several internet searches for ending her pregnancy, including one that said, "I need to have an abortion but I'm past 24 weeks," the judge wrote in his ruling.

"While the baby was not full term, she was approaching that stage of development," prosecutor Robert Price said. "Multiple and prolonged internet searches showed a level of planning."

Supporters of abortion rights criticized the sentence as unnecessarily harsh and called for an end to criminalizing abortion.