A man and his lover conspired to trick the former’s long-term girlfriend into taking DIY abortion pills, a UK court has heard. The lover, Georgia Day, pleaded guilty to pretending to be pregnant to obtain the pills from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS).

Georgia Day, 23, has pleaded guilty to pretending to be pregnant in order to obtain DIY abortion pills to abort her lover’s and his girlfriend’s unborn baby. Her lover had said he didn’t want to be a father and wanted to trick his partner into an abortion.

The man, who was a student, said he wanted to continue his studies and travel. But his girlfriend refused to have an abortion. They had been planning to have a baby.

Ms Day, who was 21 at the time in 2020, obtained abortion pills from BPAS after pretending to be pregnant during a telephone consultation. Her lover had also offered money to female friends to help him acquire abortion pills.

Subsequent searches of Ms Day’s internet history found that she had researched “giving abortion pills to someone else”. But the conspiracy was discovered when the girlfriend found the abortion pills under her bed before they could be administered.

She later gave birth to a healthy baby.

Ms Day’s defence has argued that their client made a “terrible mistake… perhaps out of naivety or without proper consideration of the consequences… She did not know [the pregnant woman], she was in a relationship of sorts with [the man].”

Ms Day has been given a 12-month sentence, suspended for 18 months, after Judge Recorder Dean Crowe told her she was “very foolish”. She must now complete 120 hours of unpaid work.

“Appalling” plot “not taken seriously”

SPUC’s Michael Robinson, Executive Director (Public Affairs and Legal Services), said: “Georgia Day and her lover conspired to kill a mother’s unborn child. The only reason they failed in this hideous conspiracy was that the mother discovered the abortion pills before she could be tricked into taking them.

“Yet, Ms Day is considered merely ‘foolish’. Will the man in this horrific case be held accountable?

“It is increasingly obvious in the UK that abortion coercion – facilitated even further by the dangerous DIY home abortion scheme, now made permanent – is simply not being taken seriously by Government, courts and the abortion industry, including BPAS.

“Recently, a senior Home Office civil servant was accused of spiking his lover’s drink with an abortion drug, as reported by SPUC.

“Not only are mothers under constant assault by selfish men and women, but unborn babies are also paying the price (with their lives) and are certainly not being helped by appalling governmental decisions to make DIY home abortion permanent, first in England and Wales, and most recently in Scotland.”

“Questions MUST be asked”

Mr Robinson continued: “Important questions MUST be asked, and SPUC will continue to ask them on behalf of mothers and fathers, as well as unborn children.

“How was Ms Day able to trick BPAS so easily into obtaining abortion pills? Does BPAS care? Will the Government act on this? How many more cases like this will it take? Why is the attempted murder of an unborn baby only seen and treated as ‘very foolish’ rather than as an appalling crime?

“SPUC supporters can expect further campaigning on the issue of abortion and coercion this year. This is a critical issue that we cannot afford to ignore. We must protect mothers and their children. We must act now.”