The Minister for Health and Social Services in Jersey is working hard to try to introduce an abortion law that is much more radical than the current one. He wants abortion on request up to 21 weeks and 6 days, as opposed to the current general limit of 12 weeks, and he wants pregnant mothers to only have to see one doctor to consult, even in late-term abortions.
In February 2024, ahead of these proposed changes to Jersey’s abortion law, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)’s Centre for Reproductive Research & Communication (CRRC), having been engaged by the Government of Jersey (GoJ) at a cost of £10,790, produced a report of the “lived experiences of termination of pregnancy in Jersey”.
BPAS is the UK's main abortion provider, and a major pro-abortion campaigner. They are the only organisation the GoJ consulted.
Their report comprised two “composite narratives” formed out of just five interviews, whose original scripts have not been published.
In response, we have undertaken to produce, at no cost to the GoJ, a two-part report: Part 1 ("Hear My Story") comprises ten real-life, unredacted stories of women who have experienced legal abortion in Great Britain; Part 2 ("Scientific and Statistical Evidence") is on the documented reality of abortion harming women and of life in the womb before viability, from a scientific, medical, and legal perspective, drawing on data and studies from around the world.
Please share these briefings (links below) with States Members in Jersey, and with healthcare professionals, and call upon the States to halt this radical legislative change.