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<p>Offences of using poison or instruments to cause miscarriage and supplying or procuring
poison or instruments to cause miscarriage (sections 58 and 59 Offences Against the
Persons Act 1861) are usually investigated by the police and, in England and Wales,
prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).</p><p>The CPS will only bring or
continue with a prosecution where both stages of the test set down in the Code for
Crown Prosecutors are met, i.e. that there is sufficient evidence to provide a realistic
prospect of conviction and, if so, that a prosecution is required in the public interest.</p><p>In
England and Wales, section 1 of the Abortion Act 1967 provides a defence to a prosecution
under sections 58 or 59 where a pregnancy is terminated by a registered medical practitioner
in accordance with the provisions of the Abortion Act 1967.</p>
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