Katie* is facing trial for ending a pregnancy, and is living with the stress and trauma of an ongoing police investigation into her NHS-prescribed abortion. This is all due to an outdated law from 1861 that makes abortion a criminal offence.
Abortion is healthcare, and should be treated as such. This is why Level Up is campaigning for the outdated 1861 law to be removed, and abortion to be decriminalised. Until we achieve that, the most important thing we can do is show solidarity with women who are still being prosecuted under these archaic laws.
It’s crucial that Katie knows the public are on her side – please share a message of support, and we will pass them onto Katie.
* Katie is not her real name.
messages of solidarity
Elizabeth Spradbery
Ann Jungmann
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Stephen Thomas