An innocent and happy mother-to-be was deliberately poisoned with abortion pills to kill her 15-week-old baby, a court has heard.
Cold-hearted killer Stuart Worby was found guilty of spiking the anonymous woman’s drink in August 2022, which caused a miscarriage just hours later. Nueza Cepeda pleaded guilty to supplying him with the pills, which she obtained following a phone consultation with abortion provider The Gynae Centre.
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, women had to attend a face-to-face consultation with a medical professional before they could be given abortion pills, at least one of which was then taken in a supervised medical environment. But following a change in the law in 2022, women less than ten weeks pregnant can now procure the pills after a phone or video consultation, with the pills then posted to them.
If at-home abortions had not been introduced, Stuart Worby would not have been able to obtain these pills from this abortion provider, and this tragic case would not have happened.
In a similar case in 2022, senior civil servant Darren Burke was sentenced to over three years in prison for lacing his girlfriend’s orange juice with abortion pills after she refused to have an abortion.
There were 252,122 abortions in England and Wales in 2022, of which 61 per cent were chemically induced at home during the first ten weeks of pregnancy.