Accessing an abortion at home is about to become a crime for women in the UK. 

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Accessing an abortion at home is about to become a crime for women in the UK.

The government are on the brink of banning home abortion care services, creating a catastrophic shortfall in the number of appointments required to meet women’s needs and criminalising women who use these medications at home.

Right now the decision on whether to continue pills by post service is sitting on the desk of Minister for Public Health, Maggie Throup MP, and she’ll be weighing up the arguments for and against.

We need to send a clear message that the continuation of this service is vital for the health and wellbeing of women. Please email her now.
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Banning pills by post will have heart wrenching consequences for women. Women will have abortions at later gestations, as providers like us simply do not have the appointment space and women in the most challenging circumstances struggle to access timely in-clinic care. Some may be forced to continue pregnancies they do not want. At BPAS alone we estimate that, if pills by post was banned, the need for abortion care post 20-weeks would increase by 43%.

We have made it abundantly clear to the government that abortion services will not cope if they ban pills by post, but are now becoming increasingly worried that our words are falling on deaf ears and the wrong decision will be made any day now.


The government is faced with a simple choice, keep pills by post services or make accessing abortion care far more difficult for women.


It’s up to us to tell them in no uncertain terms, pills by post has to stay. Please will you write to the minister, there’s a template you can use, but any personal stories you can add will go a long way. It takes less than a minute.
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Best wishes,

- The BPAS Team
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