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When you turn to prosecutions and convictions under Sections 58 and 59 Offences Against the Person Act 1861, the picture is clearer, as the data is disaggregated into male and female. In 2025, six people were proceeded against, with five convictions. When that was broken down into male and female, of the six proceeded against, four were men, of which all four were convicted, and two were women, of which one woman was convicted. It would therefore suggest that coercion may well be coming into play or, as in the Worby case that we discussed in Committee, deception was a ploy to procure an abortion for a woman who wished to continue with her pregnancy.