• But isn’t this just stopping women who carry out late-term abortions being prosecuted, not making those abortions legal?

    No. This change doesn’t just stop prosecutions, it disapplies the very law that made such abortions illegal. It is a fundamental principle of English law that unless something is specifically prohibited by law, then it is legal. There is now no law prohibiting a woman carrying out her own abortion up to birth, therefore it is legal.