Women's bodies are still controlled by "Victorian era" laws, a mum has said, after police issued new guidelines which allow officers to search grieving women for abortion drugs.
Elen Hughes, from the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, whose baby was stillborn, called the guidance horrifying.
They include allowing searches of mothers' mobile phones if a baby dies unexpectedly in the womb.
The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said such cases were rarely investigated and only if there was suspicion an illegal abortion had taken place, with each case treated with "sensitivity".
But Ms Hughes, who lost her son Danial 37-and-a-half weeks into her pregnancy, said if police had investigated her while she was still grieving, "that might well have been the end of me".
"I couldn't imagine on top of everything else that goes through a woman's mind and the families who go through the experience of losing a baby, miscarriage or stillbirth that the threat that the police can turn up and question or inspect the house or telephone.
"The fact that they can do this is terrible. And why is a law from the Victorian era still regulating women's bodies in 2025?
