UK woman says she hopes to make history as last woman in England prosecuted for abortion
“I hate sitting in silence now,” Nikki Packer says. A quiet room reminds her too much of the police cell she was taken to and locked into just hours after undergoing a traumatic stillbirth.
Arrested in hospital by uniformed officers, while still recovering from surgery, she was accused of carrying out an illegal abortion. It took four-and-a-half years for her case to come to court, where last week she was unanimously cleared by a jury.
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