Last year, Conservative MP Danny Kruger made a series of terrifying comments when he argued that women shouldn’t have “an absolute right” to bodily autonomy when it comes to pregnancy.

And now, a report by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists published in November has said that the commissioning for abortion care and insufficient funding of services had resulted in poorer standards of care for women and “marked variations across the UK, with women accessing abortion in many areas being denied the rights they should expect from the NHS constitution”.

Because of funding and staffing pressures, experts are now warning that the UK is facing a “crisis point” in abortion provision, with rising demand and restricted access to care in many areas putting unprecedented strain on already struggling NHS services.

Abortion services in the UK are in crisis as healthcare professionals warn of a “terrifying” state of affairs for women