British Pregnancy Advisory Service

Women's stories have been so essential to the campaign for change. This is the reality of an abortion law written decades before women could even vote. And it's why we are so delighted that change is coming. www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

On Tuesday, MPs voted 379 - 137 to decriminalise women accused of ending their own pregnancies.

This is a landmark moment for women’s rights and the most significant change to our abortion law since the 1967 Abortion Act was passed.

Thank you to all who worked with us on this essential change.

With three hours of debate time going ahead in parliament next week what we can do is;

⛔Stop police arrests
⛔Stop investigations
⛔Stop women being taken from their hospital beds to interrogations

Ask your MP to support amendment NC1.

We’re already taking part in this reform in Scotland – and are determined to make the same change in England and Wales.

We are working with experts, medical bodies & healthcare providers towards a new Abortion Act – that will bring our law up to date, treating abortion like the healthcare it is which means no more 2 doctors required to approve, no more grounds to meet & ensuring our law reflects what we need in 2025

BPAS started the campaign to decriminalise abortion in 2012, and we are fully committed to delivering this. The urgent, distressing problem of women facing prosecution and jail cannot wait for abortion law to be reformed; and neither should reform be rushed.

Alongside @msichoices.org, NUPAS & BSACP we have written to MPs asking them to support NC1 - to make sure we solve the urgent issue of women being criminalised now, & make sure that any change to the wider law is properly considered & does not risk harming the very thing we’re all trying to protect

A decade of campaigning to change abortion law but we’re being silenced by TfL at our final hurdle.

In a few weeks MP’s will vote on amendment NC1 to the Crime and Policing bill. An amendment that will prevent the traumatic events shown on our ads.

Email your local MP bpas-campaigns.org

We haven't, but if you want to forward his response to policy[at]bpas.org we would be very happy to take it up with him!

Women deserve to have their stories told and their voices heard – and the public has a right to hear them.

Please share to your social media with a link to our ‘Email your MP’ tool. bpas-campaigns.org

This ad isn't real. We mocked it up. Why? Transport for London rejected our campaign material because the advertisement "𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙚".

🔗 Read the full story here - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A screenshot of the top of a joint briefing entitled 'Abortion in the Crime and Policing Bill'. The briefing has the logos of 50 organisations at the top, including medical Royal colleges, abortion providers, violence against women and girls groups, trades unions, and women's rights organisations.

You can read more about amendment NC1 and why we're all supporting it in the joint briefing here - bpas-campaigns.org/wp-content/u...

A screenshot of a pdf document with the text of amendment NC1 to the Crime and Policing Bill, laid by Tonia Antoniazzi MP and supported by 115 more MPs from 8 parties. The amendment says 'For the purposes of the law related to abortion, including sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, and the Infant Life Preservation Act 1929, no offence is committed by a woman acting in relation to her own pregnancy.'

So that's at committee stage - NC1 at report stage (where votes happen with all MPs) is this below. There's an issue with the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk web page for the amendment but it's on the list of amendments issued every night. 50 organisations and 116 MPs are supporting NC1.

Use our "email your MP" tool: bpas-campaigns.org to support this amendment

MP Tonia Antoniazzi on why she’s fighting to change our abortion laws Stylist meets Tonia Antoniazzi, the Labour MP pushing to decriminalise abortion once and for all.

Alongside more than 50 organisations we support @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social MP's amendment to the Crime & Policing Bill which will remove women from the criminal law in relation ending their own pregnancies

www.stylist.co.uk/news/politic...

We're calling on MPs to do one simple thing...

📢 Support amendment NC1 📢

Ask your MP to represent you in asking for women to be removed from an archaic law that was written before women even had the right to vote. bpas-campaigns.org

link in bio for our 30 second tool to locate and email your local MP

Poster about Zara, 15 years old, endured a lengthy police investigation after suffering a stillbirth

Yesterday, across England and Wales, 190 ads went live in support of our campaign to reform our cruel and archaic abortion law and protect women and girls from...

🚫 Life imprisonment
🚫 Arrests straight from hospital wards
🚫 Homes searched
🚫 Children taken away

Email your MP at bpas-campaigns.org

We work hard to make sure that being pro-choice in the UK isn't a party political issue. There are strong advocates for reproductive rights across all parties and none. That's how we changed the law on telemedicine and safe access zones in the last parliament even when government opposed.

It’s time to decriminalise abortion Current abortion law in Britain is just a series of loopholes. It’s time for new legislation, because, as the US example shows, women’s healthcare can quickly become a political target

"Liberation movements have, after all, often had to become broad coalitions of people who otherwise disagreed on most things to be effective." @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com on how the 75 MPs who #SupportNC1 may only agree on 1 thing - decriminalising women www.theneweuropean.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Prosecuted, shamed and traumatised for mistake of taking abortion pills too late | The Observer In 2020, Nicola Packer had an abortion - then was arrested and put on trial. Now, found not guilty, she hopes she will be the last woman in history prosecuted under England’s archaic law

In 2020, Nicola Packer had an abortion - then was arrested and put on trial.

Now, found not guilty, she hopes she will be the last woman in history prosecuted under England’s archaic law.

Read the full report from @phoebeivy.bsky.social here:

Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs

This guidance is harrowing. Telling police to use menstrual tracking apps to investigate women for illegal abortion reads like something you get out of Texas, not the UK. There's only one way to protect women - #SupportNC1 to change abortion law.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

‘Abortion is healthcare’: If you agree, join our pro-choice campaign in partnership with BPAS We’ve partnered with the UK’s largest abortion provider and campaigning organisation to call on Parliament to back bodily autonomy and decriminalise abortion in England and Wales

We are proud to stand with Cosmopolitan in this fight. The law on abortion has to change. That's why we're working with MPs from across Parliament, and nearly 50 organisations to decriminalise women.
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

This morning a group of medical bodies and healthcare professionals has welcomed a cross-party amendment laid by @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social to the Crime and Policing Bill which would stop the prosecution of women under abortion law.

🔗 Find the full details here - bpas.org/about-bpas/p...

We were incredibly proud to stand alongside @gemmaclark.bsky.social to deliver her petition calling for abortion law reform today at @10dowingstreet.bsky.social.

Campaigners have today delivered a petition signed by over 100,000 UK residents calling on parliament to reform the abortion law.

Let's debunk some myths about abortion.

Does abortion lead to infertility?

#AbortionFacts #ReproductiveHealth #FertilityMyths

“Across the rest of the UK, women are able to access this care closer to home – it is deeply unjust that Scottish women are left behind.” - Heidi Stewart, CEO of BPAS.

Read article here: shorturl.at/hg9Qw

#AbortionRights #HealthcareForAll #BackOffScotland #ReproductiveJustice #BPAS

Join our friends Drs for Choice and Abortion Talk for their 2nd annual conference, 'Breaking siloes: Abortion beyond the clinic', on Friday 20th June.

More info and tickets available here: www.tinyurl.com/breakingsilo...

Clinic staff told 'I hope you die of cancer, you're murderers' AN ABORTION clinic subjected to abuse by protestors have received death wishes, keyed cars and had ‘holy water’ thrown at the building.

The safe access zone in Bournemouth has been protecting our patients and staff since 2022.

Before the zone came into force, we received more than 500 reports of harassment outside.

This is the story clinic staff have to tell 🔽 www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2508076...

Over 20,000 runners at the biggest London Landmarks Half Marathon ever - and #TeamChoice showed up strong!💪

They’ve smashed their £4.5k goal, raising £6.7k+ for BPAS.

So many thanked us on the course - a powerful reminder of why we fight for choice.💜

#LLHM2025 #TeamChoice