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A mother-of-three has been sentenced for carrying out an abortion of her baby after the legal limit under a law that dates back to 1861. It's prompted calls for the law to change. Read more:

Crimes under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act carry a maximum life sentence.

Caroline Nokes, the Conservative who chairs the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, said parliament should look at the issue"in detail". "There's no other country in the world, as I understand it, that would criminalise a woman in this way," she said,

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