The Court of Appeal reduces Carla Foster's sentence for illegally obtaining abortion tablets.
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A judge told her last month she would serve half her 28-month term in custody and the remainder on licence.Dame Victoria Sharp, sitting with Lord Justice Holroyde and Mrs Justice Lambert at the London court on Tuesday, called it "a very sad case".Foster appeared at the hearing via a video link from Foston Hall prison, Derbyshire.The court heard she had moved back in with her ex-partner at the start of lockdown, while carrying another man's baby.
Foster's barrister Barry White said there had been a lack of "vital reports" into his client's mental health and the pandemic had added to her existing anxiety. Robert Price, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said the original sentence was not "manifestly excessive" and the judge had "correctly made allowances for mitigating factors in this unusually sensitive case".
"Now is the time to reform abortion law so that no more women are unjustly criminalised for taking desperate actions at a desperate time in their lives."and called existing legislation "archaic".
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