Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss.
New guidance from the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) on “child death investigation” advises officers to search for “drugs that can terminate pregnancy” in cases involving stillbirths. The NPCC, which sets strategic direction for policing across the country UK, also suggests a woman’s digital devices could be seized to help investigators “establish a woman’s knowledge and intention in relation to the pregnancy”. That could include checking a woman’s internet searches, messages to friends and family, and health apps, “such as menstrual cycle and fertility trackers”, it states.
Details are also provided for how police could bypass legal requirements for a court order to obtain medical records about a woman’s abortion from NHS providers.
Not the guy you are responding to but.
That is Def not legal. And the NHS having done the abortion means it is a legal abortion. Or it is the NHS that is being investigated not the recipient.
This seems like a very strange document even ignoring the pure bullying investigating victims of still births involves.
Advice to police how to bypass legal requirements on private medical data. None of the phone tracking app advice applies to weather the still birth was an illegal abortion. Just if it happened.
This whole incident seems more like some anti abortion advocates trying to focus police on terrorising\victimise women with no indication a crime has actually happened.