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Evening Standard
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Aine Fox

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Mps debate decriminalising abortion as opponents warn it would be a radical step - You Need To See This

Women’s rights campaigners have been arguing for some time that women should not be criminalised over abortion (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Archive)

Women must no longer be “dragged from hospital bed to police cell” over abortion, MPs have heard as opponents of decriminalisation warned against such a “radical step”.

Parliament could debate amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill in the coming weeks around guaranteeing women will no longer face prosecution over ending a pregnancy.

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