In 2023, the NHS paid BPAS: £39,000,000 to provide abortions to women not using contraception, and £17,000,000 to provide abortions to women whose contraception had failed. It is hard to understand why BPAS is so enthusiastic about its campaign for improved contraception services across the NHS, including the morning-after pill, either it believes that effective... Continue Reading →
Are Gen Z aborting half of all pregnancies?
I was recently asked to verify my claim made in an earlier post that “half of all Generation Z pregnancies now end in abortion.” The most recent set of cohort fertility data was published by the Office for National Statistics in July 2025, showing conceptions, maternities, and abortions data for different age-groupings, over the years... 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 →
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 →
300,000 abortions per year in the UK
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 →
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 →
300,000 abortions in the UK in 2024
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 →
Saying “Sorry”
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 →
Government under-reports abortion complications by a factor of 38x
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.
FOI requesting HES data on the treatment of abortion complications in England, 2017 to 2023.
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 →
Why do women contact pregnancy support services?
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 →
Complications reporting is complicated and incomplete
An effective medical abortion is defined by the MARE Guidelines[i] as a successful expulsion of an intrauterine pregnancy without the need for surgical intervention, clarified by the following sub-categories: Continuing pregnancy: treated with surgical management Continuing pregnancy: patient opted to continue or outcome is unknown Retained products treated with surgical management (an evacuation of retained... Continue Reading →
Complications from Medical Abortion are still being under-reported by the UK Government
In its recently published report into abortion statistics for 2022 (England and Wales), the UK Government presented misleading and incomplete data about the numbers of complications arising from medical abortions; and worse still, they knew they were doing so.[i] In fairness to the reporting team at the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities, they do... Continue Reading →
250,000 abortions in E&W in 2022
We can now say with more certainty that in 2022, the total abortions in England and Wales will have been about 250,000, a substantial year-on-year increase of 17%, compared with an annual average increase of less than 3% over the last 53 years. The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) has only published data... Continue Reading →
At least 39,000 women treated for DIY abortion complications in five years
In the last five years across England and Wales, at least 39,000 women have been treated at NHS hospitals for complications arising from failed or incomplete DIY medical abortions at home; in the past, these complications would have been treated at the abortion providers’ facilities. Five years ago, abortion was only provided at approved abortion... Continue Reading →
BPAS Annual Report March 2023
Its directors say that the last few years have been a ‘turbulent period within BPAS’; that seems like a fair conclusion given damning reviews from the Care Quality Commission, the loss of £millions, a failed IVF business, and the resignation of the CEO and more than half of the senior officers. The BPAS Annual Report... Continue Reading →
BPAS is not well-led, reports CQC
BPAS is the largest abortion organisation in the UK, likely to have provided more than 100,000 abortions in 2023 (about 45% of all abortions). BPAS is collaborating with Dame Diana Johnson in her attempt to have abortion decriminalised in England and Wales. It is an organisation that has been struggling in recent years: In the... Continue Reading →
