U.K. woman sentenced for illegal abortion

Published: May 26, 2007 at 6:30 PM
Order reprints
MANCHESTER, England, May 26 (UPI) -- A British woman who underwent an illegal abortion is believed to be the first person ever convicted under the country's 78-year-old child-destruction law.

Maisha Mohammed, 22, of Manchester was given a year in prison Friday in a move anti-abortion activists said should lead to a crackdown on illegal abortion providers.

The Telegraph said Saturday that Mohammad had apparently aborted an illegitimate baby when she was more than seven months pregnant, although she never admitted she had done so and the fetus never turned up.

Police told the British newspaper Mohammed repeatedly changed her story and might not have been charged had she admitted what had happened. They continue to search for the person who carried out the procedure and presumably disposed of the unborn baby.


© 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved.



Customers decide barbershop price (8 min)
MLB: Colorado 7, Atlanta 6 (11 min)
Younger kids more likely to get wrong dose (23 min)
MLB: Houston 9, Washington 4 (25 min)
Many Chinese college graduates idle (27 min)
IEDs more common in Afghanistan (48 min)
Most physicians dislike working conditions (51 min)
fark
Thousands homeless after China Quake. Quisp unavailable for comment
Ugly-ass okapi born at Denver Zoo. In fact, "okapi" means "ugly-ass" in Swahili
If you find a live grenade in your newly purchased vehicle, you probably shouldn't wait a month...
Family tries to lure back lost dog by spraying their own urine all over town. They then want to...
"Oh damn." Obama caught blatantly ogling some of the nicer scenery at the G8 summit, while Sarkozy...
Photoshop this artistic smoker