RESEARCH: Abortion Act 1937 (4)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/helped-make-abortion-legal-but-50-years-still-fighting-stop-stigma/
Article published on 25th October 2017

"I helped make abortion legal - but 50 years on I am still fighting to stop the stigma."

The impact of the stigma of abortion is discussed in this article, as a woman reflects upon knowing someone who died from an abortion as she wakes up from receiving one.

Back then, abortion was still illegal in this country. Had she been found out, Munday could have been imprisoned for wilfully terminating her pregnancy.
Possibly due to the sexual revolution.
Compares the female reproductive stymie to the "Dark Ages".

Family planning clinics wanted to see a wedding ring before handing out contraception, and sex outside of marriage was taboo.

Backstreet abortions had become commonplace, carried out by unqualified persons, midwives, or doctors who had been struck off - although many women attempted their own.

Those who could afford it, would pay off medical professionals to agree that they needed an abortion on physical or mental health grounds, in which case it could be performed legally. After 1967, it became legal for any woman from any background to terminate a pregnancy, not just the most priviliged - although they still need the permission of two doctors.

BBC documentary, Abortion on Trial

At the end of the article, there is a message attached: 
CORRECTION: The basis of this article's original headline ("My sons still can't forgive me for having an abortion") was a misreading of Diane Munday's comment that her sons were ashamed of her. This comment in fact related to her sons' attitude to the publicity surrounding her ongoing campaign to change abortion legislation, not to the fact of her 1961 termination. We are sorry for the misunderstanding.

This could argue that the validity of the article is questionable due to the reporting. For this, I can conclude that the article educated me in that of the social stigma and how this woman is still captaining and fighting for the Act.

(In the post above, I have noted my findings for further use, all information is from the link at the top of this page.)