A WOMAN has denied carrying out a DIY abortion with "poison" during lockdown.
Bethany Cox, 22, is accused of administering the illegal abortion by taking a "poison or other noxious thing".
She appeared at Teesside Crown Court today where she denied administering a poison with intent to procure a miscarriage, between July 2 and July 7, 2020.
Cox also pleaded not guilty to taking a drug with intent to destroy the life of a child that was capable of being born alive on July 6, 2020, in the knowledge it would lead to the termination of the pregnancy.
The first lockdown restrictions were eased on July 4, 2020.
Cox was supported by her family in the public gallery as she entered her pleas.
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A provisional trial date expecting to last seven days was set for January 15 next year.
Cox, of Eaglescliffe, Stockton on Tees, was released on unconditional bail.
The accounts advisor is the fourth woman to be charged with a similar offence in the past eight months.
Causing your own abortion was criminalised under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.
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