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AI cameras being set up on highways to catch drivers who throw trash out of their car windows (www.businessinsider.com)
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AI cameras being set up on highways to catch drivers who throw trash out of their car windows::The decision to install cameras in UK lay-bys aims to prevent littering but one campaign group described the approach as "meaningless."

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

That's because they loosely interpret the law so they can get an abortion for "mental health". This makes up roughly 98% of abortions. Someone could decide to challenge it since it's technically illegal from the Offences Against the Person Act 1861

Info taken from here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_Kingdom

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  • [–] [B] 2 points 2 years ago

    Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

    **Abortion in the United Kingdom is de facto available under the terms of the Abortion Act 1967 in Great Britain and the Abortion (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 in Northern Ireland. The procurement of an abortion remains a criminal offence in Great Britain under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, although the Abortion Act provides a legal defence for both the pregnant woman and her doctor in certain cases. Although a number of abortions did take place before the 1967 Act, there have been around 10 million abortions in the United Kingdom. Around 200,000 abortions are carried out in England and Wales each year and just under 14,000 in Scotland; the most common reason cited under the ICD-10 classification system for around 98% of all abortions is "risk to woman's mental health. "Across the United Kingdom, abortion is permitted on the grounds of:

    risk to the life of the pregnant woman; preventing grave permanent injury to her physical or mental health; risk of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family (up to a term limit of 24 weeks of gestation); or substantial risk that, if the child were born, they would "suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped". The third ground is typically interpreted liberally with regards to mental health to create a de facto elective abortion service; 98% of the approximately quarter-million abortions performed in Great Britain are done so for that reason.**

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