Women's stories have been so essential to the campaign for change. This is the reality of an abortion law written decades before women could even vote. And it's why we are so delighted that change is coming. www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

With three hours of debate time going ahead in parliament next week what we can do is;

⛔Stop police arrests
⛔Stop investigations
⛔Stop women being taken from their hospital beds to interrogations

Ask your MP to support amendment NC1.

We’re already taking part in this reform in Scotland – and are determined to make the same change in England and Wales.

We are working with experts, medical bodies & healthcare providers towards a new Abortion Act – that will bring our law up to date, treating abortion like the healthcare it is which means no more 2 doctors required to approve, no more grounds to meet & ensuring our law reflects what we need in 2025

BPAS started the campaign to decriminalise abortion in 2012, and we are fully committed to delivering this. The urgent, distressing problem of women facing prosecution and jail cannot wait for abortion law to be reformed; and neither should reform be rushed.

We haven't, but if you want to forward his response to policy[at]bpas.org we would be very happy to take it up with him!

Women deserve to have their stories told and their voices heard – and the public has a right to hear them.

Please share to your social media with a link to our ‘Email your MP’ tool. bpas-campaigns.org

You can read more about amendment NC1 and why we're all supporting it in the joint briefing here - bpas-campaigns.org/wp-content/u...

So that's at committee stage - NC1 at report stage (where votes happen with all MPs) is this below. There's an issue with the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk web page for the amendment but it's on the list of amendments issued every night. 50 organisations and 116 MPs are supporting NC1.

Use our "email your MP" tool: bpas-campaigns.org to support this amendment