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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Tuesday, the 17th of June,

when MPs backed a proposal to stop women in England and Wales being prosecuted for having an abortion.

Since 2020, more than 100 women have been criminally investigated.

Six have faced court and one has been sent to prison.

Measures to make spiking a specific criminal offence take a step closer to becoming law.

His non-alcoholic drink had been spiked by five ecstasy tablets.

And the Iranian ambassador to the UK urges MPs to accept his assurances

about his country's nuclear programme.

There is no desire, there is no intention to produce the nuclear bomb. But first, MPs have voted

to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales. Under the current law, abortion is legal

up to 24 weeks of pregnancy with the approval of two doctors. Abortions can only be carried out

after 24 weeks if there's a serious

risk to a woman's health or life. A Labour MP, Tanya Antoniazzi, proposed an amendment to the

crime and policing bill, changing the law, so that women wouldn't face investigation, arrest,

prosecution or imprisonment for terminating their

pregnancies. In the last three years, six women have been charged with abortion offences.

Tonya Antonyazzi said the cases had been enabled by an outdated law, underpinned by the

offences against the Person Act of 1861.

Originally passed by an all-male parliament, elected by men alone,

this Victorian law is increasingly used against vulnerable women and girls.

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