Up until Monday afternoon, I thought I was pro-choice. I believed every woman has the right to choose what happens to her own body.
I accepted that people far more informed than me had decided that, after 10 weeks, abortions should take place in clinics, that they would usually be carried out up until 24 weeks, but that they could, in exceptional circumstances, happen at any point, right up to 40 weeks. As early as possible, as late as necessary.
And then something happened that made me question all my assumptions. A 44-year-old mother of three was put in prison for taking abortion pills at somewhere between 32 and 34 weeks, so beyond the legal time limit in this country.
