UK's 162 Year Old Abortion Laws

While i don't hold a view on abortions and consider it a private matter between the parents, i was shocked to hear that woman has been jailed for 28 months for ending her pregnancy using abortion pills after the 24 week deadline under a law from 1861.
The woman obtained the at-home pills during lock-down by saying she was under 10 weeks' pregnant when she was actually 28 weeks into her pregnancy and 32 weeks when she ended it and as the law allows abortions after 24 weeks only under very limited circumstances such if the mother's life is at risk
or the child would be born with a severe disability, neither of which appear to be the case here, then it is hard to justify her actions but if the law courts are using a 162 year old old, then the abortion law needs to be seriously looked at.   
The current abortion laws in the UK are they are legal only with an authorised hospital or licensed clinic and when two doctors agree it would be risky for the mental or physical health of the woman although when the COVID pandemic struck in 2020, at-home abortion pills were made available by post for people seeking an abortion in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, a measure which had now been made permanent.
The punishment for breaking the abortion law under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act carry a maximum life sentence and since 2012 there have been 67 cases of obtaining an illegal abortion in the UK.
'Cases like this, although tragic and fortunately very rare, do throw into stark relief that we are reliant on legislation that is very, very out of date' said MP Caroline Noakes and 66 organisations have written a letter to the director of public prosecutions urging them to end the prosecuting of women who end their own pregnancies although Downing Street has said there are no plans to change abortion laws or sentencing guidelines.