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

British lawmakers vote decisively in favor of decriminalizing abortion in England and Wales, to prevent women from being punished under a law on the books since 1861.

British lawmakers voted Tuesday to decriminalize abortion for the pregnant woman – in striking contrast to the crackdown on ...

British lawmakers voted on Tuesday to prevent women from being prosecuted for having an abortion in England and Wales, a ...

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

Britain's parliament voted on Tuesday to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales to stop a growing number of women from ...

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

Tonight (17 June 2025), MPs voted in favour of removing women from criminal law in relation to procuring an abortion in ...

NC1, proposed by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, is for a partial decriminalisation that would entail the “removal of women from ...

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

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 ...