Justice Pepperall has condemned an “inappropriate” attempt by the pro-abortion lobby to influence the court in the case of a woman given prison time after falsely obtaining abortion drugs.

This week, Carla Foster was sentenced to 28 months in prison for falsely obtaining abortion drugs past the legal limit, ending the life of her unborn baby when she was 8 months pregnant, as reported by SPUC.

Commenting on the case, SPUC said that “the needless tragedy of this death and its consequences should shame abortion giants like BPAS…

“BPAS did not require an ultrasound or any physical examination to take place to ensure the woman’s wellbeing and stage of pregnancy, and left her to self-administer these drugs alone, with no medical supervision or support.”

“Special pleading”

“Unusually”, the court received a letter in April that was tantamount to a “special pleading by those who favour wider access to abortions”, Justice Pepperall remarked during sentencing.

The authors of the letter included the president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives and the president of the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare.

The authors urged the court to pass a non-custodial sentence and even requested that they be allowed to appear in court to plead their case.

In a damning statement, Justice Pepperall said: “It would plainly not have been appropriate to have allowed any of the authors to address the court. Indeed, I consider that it would have been better if the letter had not been written at all…

“My duty as a judge is to apply the law as provided by parliament and clarified by the Court of Appeal.

“If the medical profession considers that judges are wrong to imprison women who procure a late abortion outside the 24-week limit then it should lobby parliament to change that law and not judges who are charged with the duty of applying the law.”

“Shameless abortion lobby”

SPUC’s Michael Robinson, Executive Director (Public Affairs and Legal Services), said: “Abortion ideologues are exposing themselves even more as they continue to push their extreme regime on the British public and even on the courts.

“The goal of such idealogues is unrestricted abortion up to birth. Having taken advantage of lockdown to force through DIY home abortion, they have already proved they will stop at nothing to push their agenda – which in this case, that of the death of an unborn baby girl on the cusp of being born, also led to the ‘inappropriate’ act of attempting to influence a crown court.

“As we have seen in polls and a consultation, the public and many medical professionals have serious concerns about DIY home abortion, legitimate concerns that powerful abortion lobbyists have sought to whitewash.

“That this lobby believed it could also influence a court is remarkable as it is obscene, leaving Justice Pepperall no choice but to call it out publicly, a sure sign that the abortion industry has for too long controlled the narrative, which is now crumbling.”