MPs have voted in favour of measures to decriminalise women terminating their own pregnancies.
The Commons voted 379 to 137, majority 242, to back Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi’s amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill.
The Gower MP said it will remove the threat of “investigation, arrest, prosecution or imprisonment” of any woman who acts in relation to her own pregnancy.
Ms Antoniazzi told MPs she had been moved to advocate for a change in the law having seen women investigated by police over suspected illegal abortions.
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