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Your Lordships will know that, after the overturning of Roe v Wade in the USA, abortion became a state matter—a very key objective of the anti-abortionists. That meant that all the gathering of data became a matter not just for individual states, but individual counties within states. In one county in West Virginia, a prosecutor decided that, as abortion was now illegal, women had to provide evidence of a miscarriage: in other words, physical foetal remains, no matter at what stage that miscarriage happened. Fortunately, there were other people who saw that for the inhumanity that it was, but that is what he wanted to do. The outrage—