Using pills to induce a miscarriage is illegal unless approved by two doctors and taken at a registered clinical site GARO/PHANIE/REX/ShutterstockHundreds of British women are seeking abortion pills illegally online, according to a study. In four months, 519 women from England, Scotland and Wales contacted an organisation that gives advice on getting medical abortion pills when women are unable to have the procedure legally. The study is the first to hint at the scale of demand in Britain and will add urgency to the debate around criminal sanctions for abortion. Clare Murphy, director of external affairs at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, said: “The numbers of women in Britain seeking abortion pills online documented in this study are quite staggering, particularly given that it covers just one service over a four-month period.”The research, published in the journal Contraception, found that the number of women…

Source: The Times September 20, 2017 23:03 UTC