There have been calls to finish the ‘pills by post’ at-home abortion service after a person was jailed for using abortion pills acquired through the scheme to finish a girl’s pregnancy without her knowledge.
Stuart Worby was sentenced to 12 years in prison last week after sexually assaulting the girl after which secretly giving her crushed up abortion pills in orange juice which resulted in her unborn baby dying at 15 weeks’ gestation.
Worby procured the pills by asking a friend to pose as a girl wanting abortion pills from a clinic in London to make use of in an at-home abortion.
Right to Life UK has called for a full inquiry into the clinic that supplied the pills and for the immediate cessation of the pills by post scheme.
Catherine Robinson, spokesperson for Right To Life UK, said, “Had at-home abortions not been introduced, this tragic case wouldn’t have happened.”
Earlier this yr, over 800 medical professionals wrote to MPs calling for an end to the pills by post service and warning of the risks of late-term abortions being performed at home without in-person medical consultation.
A 2023 government review found that complication rates for abortions at 20 weeks or beyond were over 160 times higher than for abortions performed at earlier stages.
This is the second high profile case involving the pills by post service after Carla Foster was prosecuted last yr after admitting that she had lied about her gestational age to obtain abortion pills that led to the abortion of her unborn baby at between 32 and 34 weeks.
