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Woman denies self-medicating to induce miscarriage

PA Media Nicola Packer has blonde hair and is wearing a black outfit, smoking a cigarette and wearing glasses. She is sat on a wall, out of shot.PA Media
Nicola Packer is charged with illegally taking a substance with the intent to miscarry

A woman accused of having an illegal abortion arrived at hospital carrying a foetus in her backpack and told doctors she had miscarried naturally, a court has heard.

Nicola Packer is charged with unlawfully istering to herself a poison or other noxious thing with the intent to procure a miscarriage.

She allegedly took abortion medication at home on 6 November 2020 and went to hospital the following day, Isleworth Crown Court heard.

Ms Packer denied the charge and claimed she did not believe she had been pregnant for that long.

Ms Packer, then 41, took the prescribed medications mifepristone and misoprostol when she was about 26 weeks pregnant, a jury was told.

The legal limit for at-home abortions is 10 weeks and the prosecution alleged Ms Packer knew she had been pregnant for longer than that.

The typical full gestation term is 40 weeks and the limit for abortions in the UK is 24 weeks.

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