54,000 Hospitalized in UK After Injuries From Abortion Pills... Campaigners argue that women cannot give informed consent if the risks are downplayed, and that deliberately minimising these dangers is unacceptable.
Abortion Pill Reversal is a science based, case proven, reproductive healthcare that we can all be pro-choice about. An informative and interesting chat between @DermotKearney3 and @McAvoyDawn – well worth listening to, especially if you are involved in crisis pregnancy work. https://twitter.com/KevinDTweets/status/1976346837801107585
BPAS team is awarded £3.85 million by Wellcome Trust to investigate Contragestive Time – very early medical abortion without needing to know that you are pregnant, ensuring a state of non-pregnancy – also to change our understanding of when reproduction and beginning of life occurs. 💊Contragestives operate in the invisible time between a possible conception... Continue Reading →
Call to allow at-home abortions up to 12 weeks GA
Heidi Stewart, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), is urging Parliament to update abortion law to allow women to self-administer medical abortions at home throughout the entire first trimester—raising the current legal limit from 9 weeks and 6 days to 11 weeks and 6 days. She cites a recent study from Scotland,... Continue Reading →
Kevin Duffy's reply highlights the escalation in UK abortion figures, quoting Baroness Finn's June 6, 2025, House of Lords statement on "the nearly 300,000 women who access abortion services across the UK every year", building on 2022's 251,377 recorded cases. https://twitter.com/KevinDTweets/status/1973663449369682340
54,000 admissions to NHSE hospitals for abortion complications
In the five years since the introduction of pills-by-post, more than 54,000 women have been admitted to an NHS hospital in England for the treatment of complications arising from the use of abortion pills. Analysis of accredited official statistics published by NHS England and the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities, shows that 1-in-17 of... Continue Reading →
Growing concerns over abortion pill safety on both sides of the Atlantic... Kevin Duffy has raised alarm over the findings that recent NHS figures reveal around 1,000 women each month require emergency care after experiencing issues linked to medical abortions.
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1,000 women treated each month for abortion complications
In each of the last two years, more than 12,000 women were admitted to hospital in England for treatment of complications arising from a medical abortion. The Department of Health and Social Care has still not told us how many women had an abortion in 2023, but NHS England has just published its data on... Continue Reading →
Lord Brooke, in the House of Lords, celebrates abortion by asking us to consider how much more our global population might have grown without it, he speaks of abortion as a societal good in controlling population growth. Abortion today is killing one-in-three of our future humanity. In the last 25 years in E&W, we have... Continue Reading →
2023 abortion statistics now 10 months late
A government minister or a higher-up in the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities (OHID) must have decided that timely publication of Abortion Statistics is a waste of time and resource, what other reason is there for a further delay of ten months for this annual report? Parliamentary Questions need to be asked, again. UPDATE... Continue Reading →
Not sure what’s going on inside? Let’s scan and be sure. Marie Stopes message to women in Uganda – of course they are not talking about providing scans before abortions… but if they did, women would see exactly the same thing, their developing baby. Marie Stopes Ug probably provides more than 10,000 abortions each year... Continue Reading →
Bye-bye baby...I remember when we worried about there being too many people, worried about population explosion. Now look at that red line on the latest UN projections. I'm reading that this will be the first time our global population will be in decline since the 14th century, when the Black Death wiped out perhaps a... Continue Reading →
Childlessness at 30 is not always unplanned
An increasing proportion of women reaching their 30s, are doing so childless. I agree with demographers and commentators that this is the critical factor in our declining fertility rate but contend that we cannot / should not discuss these falling birth rates without signposting the impact of abortion. In August 2025, the Office for National... Continue Reading →
300,000 abortions per year in the UK
Update on 15 January 2026 OHID has just published the 2023 abortion statistics for England and Wales. I have increased my 2024 estimate for the UK total to 305,000 - details are in this post: 2023: an 11% increase in abortion across England and Wales. In 2024, there were 300,000 abortions in the UK, an 11%... Continue Reading →
The abortion pill harms women
On 28 April 2025, the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) published the largest-known study into complications arising from the use of the abortion pills.[i] Jamie Bryan Hall and Ryan T. Anderson, analysed data from a U.S. insurance claims database that included 865,727 patient cases in which mifepristone had been prescribed for an induced medical... Continue Reading →
Packer was let down by Lord and his team
On 08 May 2025, Nicola Packer, who was arrested on suspicion of an illegal abortion in November 2020, was cleared by the jury at Isleworth Crown Court. Her case is already being used as a cause célèbre by those campaigning for the decriminalisation of abortion, chief amongst them Jonathan Lord, an NHS consultant gynaecologist and... Continue Reading →
11,000 not 300
In 2022, the most recent year for which we have official reporting of abortion statistics for England, more than 11,000 women were admitted and treated at an NHS hospital for complications arising from a medical abortion;[i] this represents about 6% of those women using mifepristone and misoprostol at home, or misoprostol at home after taking... Continue Reading →
Generational impact of abortion as birth control
Is abortion being used as birth control and could it be a critical enabler of our below-replacement birth rates; in just two generations our population will reduce by 40%: 100 adults, 77 children, 59 grandchildren. In 2022, the most recent year in which we have official data for the whole of the UK, there were... Continue Reading →
Live births and abortions – 55 years of data
We are missing a critical factor when we discuss the increasing decline in fertility and do not consider or address the impact of abortion. Data from the ONS show us quite clearly that the ‘gap’ between live births and the total needed for replacement has generally been less than the number of abortions. That said,... Continue Reading →
Every day 33 women are treated by NHS England for abortion complications
Official published data from NHS England show that every day, on average, 33 women are admitted as inpatients to an NHS hospital for treatment of abortion complications. This is more than double our earlier estimate of 14, which was based on FOI data.[i] This post: “Government under-reports abortion complications by a factor of 38x”, outlines... Continue Reading →
