Research, data analysis, and commentary on abortion and declining birth rates.
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 →
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 →
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 →
In 2024, there were 300,000 abortions in the UK, an 11% increase since 2022, when we last had a full set of accredited official statistics. This is my latest projection based upon recently published data. To be certain this increase is not solely a factor of increasing population, it is important that we also consider... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
There were probably more than 300,000 abortions in the UK in 2024, up from our conservative projection of 292,000 in 2023. This projection is based on official published data in Scotland and Northern Ireland for 2023 and annual reports published by BPAS and MSI-RC for the same year. The last set of official data for... Continue Reading →
In Northern Ireland, it has been shown that a law restricting abortion saved more than 100,000 lives in the years from 1967 to 2016. In June 2017, the UK government started to reimburse women who travelled from NI to access abortion services in England and Wales and then in March 2020, the government changed the... Continue Reading →
The Mexico City Policy is about “who pays” rather than reducing abortion numbers. Despite emotive protestations about the likely harmful effects of this policy, we find that the global abortion business at MSI-RC continues to grow. As President Trump reinstates this policy, we should follow suit and stop using our taxes to fund overseas abortion.... Continue Reading →
Providers of regulated healthcare are obliged by law to say “Sorry” to patients when something goes wrong. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) details this in its Regulation 20: Duty of Candour. This post examines whether it is possible that BPAS failed to meet this statutory requirement in at least 5,000 cases during the last year.... Continue Reading →
In 2022, official reporting of abortion complications by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) shows just 300 cases across England and Wales. For the year 2022-23, official data from NHS England show 11,256 women diagnosed with abortion complications at an NHS hospital. The NHS data are known to the OHID, as evidenced in its November 2023 report which compares these two data sources, Abortion Notification System (ANS) and Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), and yet government officials refuse to make any change to official annual reporting. The NHS England data are easily accessible by any interested person and the above 11,256 can be retrieved online from NHS Digital in a matter of minutes. No prolonged data compilation, cleaning, and analysis; no need for a Freedom of Information request.
We have published a new report outlining findings from an FOI investigation in which we requested data related to the diagnosis of abortion complications, from all NHS Hospital Trusts in England. Key Points The Office for Health Improvement & Disparities (part of the Department of Health and Social Care) published a one-off report in November... Continue Reading →
A new study provides insight into how women describe the challenges they face when confronted with an unplanned pregnancy, how she describes her situation, circumstances, thoughts, and feelings – in her own words – before she has any contact with the pregnancy support team. From our many years of conversations with women experiencing post-abortion distress,... Continue Reading →
