Abortion denial barbaric, says family planning body

The British Family Planning Association has described the decision to force an immigrant rape victim in this country to give birth at 24 weeks rather than allow her an abortion as "nothing short of barbaric".

Last year, 3,679 Irish women travelled from Ireland to Britain for a legal abortion, as they can not access the procedure here. Some 438 abortion pills were seized from the postal service by customs, with 424 of these tablets containing misoprostol and 14 containing mifepristone.

Reacting to the ongoing controversy, acting BFPA CEO Audrey Simpson said: “The treatment of this young, vulnerable woman is nothing short of barbaric and a shocking indictment of those who would seek to control women and what happens to their bodies.