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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Bel Trew and Tara Cobham

‘I gave birth three months early – then police investigated me over an illegal abortion’

Sammy was being ferried into an ambulance by paramedics – after giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to her newborn baby – when she realised there were around eight police officers in her living room.

The mother, in her thirties, had just given birth at home to a baby boy who arrived over three months early, weighing just 1lb 7oz – little more than a bag of sugar.

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