A young woman has denied illegally aborting her child during lockdown. Bethany Cox, 22, is accused of using Misoprostol, a drug that till 2018 was illegal in the UK for home use, to abort her unborn child at a time when it was ‘capable of being born alive.’ Cox, of Eaglescliffe, Stockton on Tees, was charged with two offences during an appearance at Teesside Crown Court on Tuesday: child destruction and procuring her own miscarriage by poison when …
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Halsey has said that having an abortion “saved” their life before becoming pregnant again with son Ender. The American singer who goes with the pronoun “they/their”, disclosed this in a candid open letter for Vogue. The 27-year-old reflected on their ‘struggle to maintain a pregnancy’ before welcoming son Ender last July, and rewrote their will as they neared their due date over fears that they wouldn’t survive. Halsey wrote; ‘I miscarried three times before my 24th birthday. It seemed …
A pregnant 10-year-old girl had to be protected by military police when angry religious protesters tried to block her from having an abortion at a hospital in Brazil. The child, from Sao Mateus, was allegedly raped by her uncle. She told medics her uncle had been raping her since the age of six and she had never reported him because he allegedly threatened her, according to newspaper G1. The girl was discovered to be pregnant after she …
US President Donald Trump has announced that he has ordered governors to open up places of worship opining that is wrong for some state governors to designate ‘liquor stores and abortion clinics’ as ‘essential services’ but keep places of worship like churches, mosques and synagogues closed. Amid the Coronavirus pandemic hat has killed over 95,000 people in the US, Trump on Friday said he is designating all places of worship – including churches, synagogues and mosques – “essential,” saying …