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Wednesday, 1 August 2018

It’s perfectly safe – so why can’t women take abortion pills at home? | Claudia Craig

My own experience led me to set up a campaign to change England’s outdated abortion laws

When I found out I was pregnant last year, I immediately knew that I wanted an abortion. I did not want to be pregnant. I had my final university exams in a month, I was 23, and being a single mum just wasn’t a part of the plan. That part wasn’t difficult: I was pregnant and I didn’t want to be.

What was difficult, however, was my abortion starting in the back of a taxi. This happened because the law in Scotland at the time required me to take the second abortion pill in a hospital or clinic. When you are having an early medical abortion like I was, you take two pills roughly two days apart, and it is the second pill that triggers a miscarriage.

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