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Abortion harms women - here's the evidence!

Aside from the obviously abhorrent violence against full-term babies, the evidence is clear that the anarchy unleashed by removing abortion entirely from the criminal framework would cause far more harm to women - the very people Creasy and Antoniazzi claim to be caring for.

The Evidence

  • 1 in 17 women who use the abortion pill at home will need hospital treatment for complications1 
  • 33 women a day are admitted as inpatients to an NHS hospital for treatment of abortion complications1 
  • Government under-reports abortion complications by a factor of 38x2
  • 81% increased risk of mental health issues following abortion3 
  • Drug use is 250% higher among women who have had an abortion compared to those who have not3 
  • The odds of suicide or self-harm are 155% higher among women who have had an abortion compared to those who have not3 
  • 30% increase risk of anxiety following abortion4 
  • 130% increased risk of alcohol abuse following abortion4
  • 15% of women aged 18–44 experienced pressure to abort5
  • 5% experienced physical violence intended to cause miscarriage5
  • 3% were drugged with abortion pills without knowledge or consent5

For further studies and evidence of harms to women:

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Stella Creasy MP and Tonia Antoniazzi MP’s off-topic amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill are dressed up as feminist, pro-choice, liberating, and historic amendments, doing away with archaic laws that punish women for making reproductive choices and lead to police investigating women who have natural miscarriages.

 Decriminalising Abortion: What’s Really at Stake?

MPs Tonia Antoniazzi and Stella Creasy have proposed sweeping changes to the Crime and Policing Bill through amendments NC1 and NC20 — aiming to decriminalise abortion.

Antoniazzi’s amendment would remove women from prosecution under Sections 58 and 59 of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act and the 1929 Infant Life (Preservation) Act.

Creasy goes further, pushing to repeal all these sections completely, along with Section 60 of the same Act.

But what would Creasy's full decriminalisation really mean?

  It would make legal:

  • Abortions up to birth, for any reason

  • Sex-selective abortions

  • Backstreet abortions without medical oversight

  • Forced abortions — with no legal recourse for victims

  • Partial-birth abortions

  • Infanticide under the guise of termination

  • Concealing and disposing of babies’ bodies — even if born alive

   And beyond that:

  • Abusive partners couldn’t be prosecuted for secretly giving abortion pills

  • Late-term abortions would become routine 

  • Increased pressure to abort – Vulnerable women (e.g., teens, trafficking victims, those with disabilities) could be coerced more easily

  • Negligent care goes unpunished – No legal accountability for botched abortions, negligence or malpractice

  • Loss of informed consent protections – Without regulation, women may not be fully informed of risks or alternatives

  • No legal safeguards – Without the law’s involvement, women could be left without basic medical and emotional support

For a briefing document to send to your MP:

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Have Creasy and Antoniazzi seen the evidence, and if so, why haven’t they acted on it?

It’s time not just to write to your MP, but to call out Creasy and Antoniazzi publicly—on X, Instagram, and Facebook—using this information. Tag your MP too, and make sure no one can claim they didn’t know. If they weren’t aware of this evidence, let’s invite them to see it. If they were, then we must hold them accountable for the harm they seem prepared to inflict. 

The studies referred to on this page are representative of many others that demonstrate the harm abortion causes. And there are plenty more out there.

The results of this research have been known for many years, yet successive governments in countries around the world have failed to act to protect women. Instead, they’ve capitulated to the abortion lobby—even attempting to suppress findings from pro-choice academics who uncovered evidence of harm.

Why, then, are these amendments even being considered—when nothing meaningful has been done to hold this ideologically driven industry to account for the trauma, injuries, and deaths resulting from so-called “legal” abortions?

Share the image and link to the evidence with your MP. Remember to tag Creasy and Antoniazzi in your post—on X, Instagram, and Facebook. 

"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."
- William Wilberforce 


References:

1 Kevin Duffy - former director of Marie Stopes International:

Percuity Blog
The Abortion Pill Harms Women
1 in 17 women

2 Government under-reports abortion complications by a factor of 38x

3 Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995–2009 - study by Priscilla K. Coleman

4 Reactions to abortion and subsequent mental health - study by David Fergusson

5 https://savanta.com/knowledge-centre/poll/reproductive-coercion-poll-bbc-radio-4-8-march-2022/