We did it!
On Tuesday 17th June, MPs voted in favour of a landmark amendment that will remove women from the criminal law in relation to ending their own pregnancies.
This is a landmark moment for women’s rights in England and Wales and the most significant change to our abortion law since the 1967 Abortion Act was passed.
There will be no more women investigated after enduring a miscarriage, no more women dragged from their hospital beds to the back of a police van, no more women separated from their children because of our archaic abortion law.
When we launched the campaign to decriminalise abortion in 2016, we could not have envisaged that within a decade such progress would be achieved.
Thank you to everyone who has lobbied their MP, donated to our fighting fund, and helped us to spread the word. Without you, this wouldn’t have happened.
You can find out how your MP voted here.
As we’ve said all along, the decriminalisation of women isn’t the end goal. We need a full rewrite of the Abortion Act 1967 to bring abortion law firmly into line with how care is provided in the 21st Century, and this is exactly what we are working on right now.
