Abortion Arrest: Recording reveals police concern

BBC ^ | May 27 | BBC

[RandFan]

A secret recording, leaked to the BBC, reveals a senior police officer had serious concerns over the controversial arrest of a woman who took abortion pills when about 26 weeks pregnant - when she believed the pregnancy was only about six weeks along.

Nicola Packer was arrested in hospital at the height of the Covid pandemic, a day after delivering a stillborn baby at home. The day after her arrest she was taken into custody in the back of a police van, still bleeding, having had major surgery.

In April this year she went to court accused of having an illegal abortion. She was acquitted earlier this month.

In the audio - from a 2020 meeting between Metropolitan Police officers and healthcare professionals - the Met's child abuse investigation lead at the time can be heard saying: "It's not a comfortable area for police to be operating in… any criminalisation around abortions."

He also questions whether the arrest was "the best for Nicola" under the circumstances.

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[RandFan]

A rare enforcement of the abortion laws in the UK it has to be said, would you have arrested her ?

[edwinland]

when she believed the pregnancy was only about six weeks along

Journalists can read the minds of leftists. Had the person been anti-abortion that would have surely written:

claiming that she believed that the pregnancy was only about six weeks along

[logi_cal869]

6 weeks along in Alien, perhaps. /s

They're all infected (true pandemic). uk is lost.

[lastchance]

How any woman could mistake a 26week gestation for one of 6 weeks is a puzzle. Perhaps she was extremely obese and could not feel the fetus moving?

[eccentric]

There are cases of women who have not known they were pregnant until delivery. It seems strange but it DOES happen.