Even some pro-abortionists are realising that DIY-abortions-by-post have got to stop. Pro-abortion Peer Baroness Davies of Devonport has explained why she backs the reintroduction of in-person consultations for abortions.
The former Olympic swimming silver medallist said she has co-sponsored a Crime and Policing Bill amendment by Baroness Stroud to end home DIY abortions in order to “protect women”.
The ‘pills-by-post’ scheme, which removed in-person consultations for women to receive abortion pills, was introduced during the Covid pandemic.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Lady Davies branded the pills-by-post scheme as an example of “powerful drugs being too casually dispensed to women by the state in the name of ideology, from which tragic consequences have already unfolded”.
She explained: “being pro-choice does not excuse jeopardising safety or allowing a ‘Wild West’ of abortion pills, where pills can too easily fall into the hands of abusers coercing abortions, traffickers covering up abuse or women whose pregnancies are approaching full term”.
The former Olympian added: “The practical effect of the scheme is that women at any stage of pregnancy can get hold of abortion pills by misleading abortion providers on the phone about their gestation, either mistakenly or deliberately as in the case of Carla Foster, who was sent abortion pills by BPAS after pretending to be seven weeks pregnant when actually around 33 weeks.”
She said: “Reintroducing in-person medical consultations for women seeking abortions is not about reducing access to abortion but ensuring safeguarding and best practice.”