MPs have voted in favour of measures to decriminalise women terminating their own pregnancies.
A vote on Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi's amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill was supported, with MPs voting 379 to 137.
The Gower MP said it will remove the threat of 'investigation, arrest, prosecution, or imprisonment' of any woman who acts in relation to her own pregnancy.
She told MPs she had been moved to advocate for a change in the law having seen women investigated by police over suspected illegal abortions.
During the Bill's report stage, Ms Antoniazzi assured her colleagues the current 24-week limit would remain and abortions would still require the approval and signatures of two doctors.
