@aby Hi from someone who actually knows about this, rather than a random celebrity news site.

Firstly, the NPCC is a private organisation of senior police officers, it is not a branch of Government and nothing it says has legislative power. It's a bunch of cops saying that misogynists in the police aren't misogynist enough and need to up the misogyny.

This is depressing and horrible and disgraceful, without question. People who are or have recently been pregnant are being harassed and prosecuted with increasing frequency, and it's hard to see this as anything other than a misogynist attack on women's rights by male cops who have far too much power. The victims have lived through a nightmare.

But the link and the other replies I've read suggest that this is a centralised, Government-led attack on abortion rights, like you'd see in the US, and that could scarcely be further from the truth.

In a few days' time, Parliament will vote on whether to abolish all criminal offences that a pregnant person can commit in relation to their pregnancy. It would put an end to this persecution at a stroke. I don't want to prejudge anything but based on how many MPs already publicly support it, mostly on the Government benches, I'm hopeful that it will pass. And many of us have been working hard to give it the best possible chance of passing.

That's the reality. Decent people versus the police, as is so often the case. Poorly researched stories from gossip sites that prioritise stories like 'what King Charles said to his dad' are not at all helpful.