MPs have voted to change abortion legislation to stop women in England and Wales being prosecuted for ending their pregnancy.

The House of Commons will now need to pass the crime bill, which is expected, before it goes to the House of Lords.

Under a law from 1861, women were investigated for procuring illegal abortion, during some of the hardest moments of their ...

The new law makes it illegal to investigate, arrest, prosecute or imprison any woman in England or Wales for terminating her ...

Abortions largely remain illegal in Britain, but a new law will put a halt to a recent increase in prosecutions of women who ...

British lawmakers voted Tuesday to decriminalize abortion in England and Wales after a lawmaker argued that it was cruel to prosecute women for ending a pregnancy.

UK Parliament votes to decriminalize abortion over concerns about prosecutions of some women in England and Wales ...

Legal protection of abortion rights in England and Wales is fragile. Abortion has popular support and is readily available on ...

MPs have voted in favour of reforming abortion legislation in England and Wales to stop women from being prosecuted for ending their pregnancy. In a landmark move, the House of Commons voted by 379 to ...

UK Parliament votes to decriminalize abortion over concerns about prosecutions of some women in England and Wales.