What purpose did jailing Carla Foster serve? Archaic laws such as these need changing, writes srigley
Surely there can be no-one who fails to have sympathy for the mum-of-three jailed for more than two years for obtaining abortion tablets to end her lockdown pregnancy.Foster, from Staffordshire, was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant and lied in order to obtain the abortion-causing drugs under the British Pregnancy Advisory Service 'pills by post' scheme.
"It is a case that calls for compassion, not punishment, and where no useful purpose is served by detaining Ms Foster in custody."Foster already had three sons - one of whom has special needs - before she became pregnant again in 2019. She was carrying another man's baby when she moved back in with her estranged partner when lockdown began.
She had pleaded guilty to a charge of section 58 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, administering drugs or using instruments to procure abortion, which was accepted by the prosecution.
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