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Health workers back new pro-choice campaign

WOMEN’S rights groups and health workers are joining up today to demand an end to the criminalisation of abortion in Britain.

Women terminating their own pregnancies can still be sent to prison for life under laws created before women could even vote.

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and a series of feminist groups are launching the We Trust Women campaign to fight to change the law.

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