Mayor of London calls on TFL to reverse ban on abortion ads

TFL said the proposed adverts did not comply with its advertising policy.

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00:00Sir Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has said he is urgently looking into the banned British

00:07Pregnancy Advisory Service adverts, which shared stories of police investigations into women,

00:14some of who were prosecuted for having an abortion. TfL said the proposed advertisement

00:22did not comply with its advertising policy because they made negative references about

00:29the police. A spokesperson for the mayor of London said the mayor has stepped in and that

00:37they are now urgently looking into this issue so they can allow adverts from the British

00:44Pregnancy Advisory Service on London's transport network. This came before MPs debated the issue

00:54of abortion in Parliament on Monday. Abortion in England and Wales remains a criminal offence,

01:03but a petition which gathered over 103,000 signatures has urged the government at Westminster to remove

01:11abortion from criminal law so that no pregnant person can be criminalised for procuring their

01:18own abortion. The issue has come to the forefront in recent times with prominent cases such as those

01:27of Nicola Packer and Carla Foster. Ms Packer was cleared by a jury in London last month after taking

01:36prescribed abortion medicine when she was around 26 weeks pregnant.