The amendment comes after police investigated more than 100 women, including some who had natural miscarriages.

If approved by MPs women would no longer face prosecution if they aborted their own baby based on its sex, after the legal limit of 24 weeks, or without approval from doctors.

A vote on whether to decriminalise abortion is set to take place in parliament with rival amendments from Labour

The vote could result in a major change to how abortion law is policed in the UK