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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
India Block

Yes, the police could seize your phone and check your period tracking app if you miscarry

It sounds like something out of the Handmaid’s Tale — or current day America, frankly — but period tracking apps can now be used as evidence to prosecute women in the UK who suffer a pregnancy loss.

In January, the National Police Chiefs’ Council quietly published new guidance on investigating women who experience a sudden unexpected pregnancy loss, if they suspect a miscarriage, stillbirth or early labour is the result of an illegal abortion.

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