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This is horrifying. It's interesting what/ who they use their powers to target. The most committed crime is probably speeding so would they ask Google maps how fast you were going? Probably not as it would catch too many of their own but women with unexplained abortions...
On the flip side, although still want to stress this is horrible what they are doing, I am kind of curious what is happening when by my understanding, abortion is fairly easy to get here and is free. Is it people having miscarriages themselves but trying to keep it quiet from partners/ family, is it people not realising they're pregnant, people changing their mind or is it, as I suspect, mostly actual medical miscarriages but they are chavs or poor so must've done wrong.
Possibly sex selective abortions, which are illegal.
That’s one possibility. Or it could be a ‘miscarriag’ that was actually a post 24 week abortion. Abortions can be carried out after 24 weeks in very limited circumstances – for example, if the mother's life is at risk or the child would be born with a severe disability.
Sex can be determined at 9 weeks via blood test, so it would still be possible to legally abort before 12 weeks with that knowledge as long as you don't disclose your reasoning.
Or people getting illegal abortions to hide it from their families.