Research, data analysis, and commentary on abortion and declining birth rates.
It is not possible on the telephone to ensure a woman’s privacy, to ensure that she is not being coerced. Government stats show that, since 2020, 54,000 people have been admitted to hospital in England for complications from abortion pills. Last year alone, some 12,000—over 6% of women taking such medication—required hospital treatment. To safeguard... Continue Reading →
The numbers from the Office for National Statistics could not be clearer: England and Wales are falling short of replacement-level births, with maternities sliding year after year while abortions climb to nearly a third of all conceptions. On paper, the “missing” births are more than accounted for by abortions—but the idea that banning abortion could... Continue Reading →
Duffy's NHS England analysis of hospitalizations for treatment of abortion complications, a rate of 1-in-17, reflects concerns raised by many in the United States regarding an increase in women visiting emergency departments after REMS safety regulations were weakened by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Biden-Harris administration. Biden's FDA also removed in-person dispensing... Continue Reading →
Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest, speaking during the Second Reading of the Crime and Policing Bill on 16 October 2025... Recent figures show that 54,000 women were admitted to NHS hospitals in England for the treatment of complications arising from the use of such abortion pills—a 50% rise from the figures before the pandemic. Analysis... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
On 09 May 2024, The Telegraph published an article responding to Ansell’s NC15, with the following headline: “Reducing abortion time limits would be ‘catastrophic’ for women.” [1] The article is misleading, or perhaps a better description would be that it is incorrect. The reporter, Donnelly, alleges that the Criminal Justice Bill amendment NC15, tabled by... Continue Reading →
Just before the Easter recess, Stella Creasy MP tabled a new abortion decriminalisation amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill, NC40. This was not available to the public until Friday evening, 12 April,[1] but that did not stop Creasy stirring up noisy discussions on social media by writing about parts of it in an opinion piece... Continue Reading →
In its campaign to decriminalise abortion, BPAS is using the stories of women who have been prosecuted or investigated to tug at our heartstrings and using emotive language to bring us and our MPs onside with their support for the Criminal Justice Bill abortion decriminalisation amendments tabled by Dame Diana Johnson (NC1) and Stella Creasy... Continue Reading →
The discovery of a baby’s body and the arrest of the parents led to a local authority placing the mother’s other children under interim care orders. Supporters of Dame Diana Johnson’s amendment for abortion decriminalisation, NC1, are using this as a campaigning headline: “Children of a British woman suspected of illegal abortion removed from her... Continue Reading →
Between 2012 and 2022, four women in England were convicted for committing an illegal abortion. In 2023, Carla Foster was jailed and then had her sentence halved and suspended. In December 2022, the case against a woman in Oxford was dropped and the case against Bethany Cox was dropped in January 2024. There are two... Continue Reading →
Dame Diana Johnson’s proposed amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill, NC1,[i] seeks to remove women from criminal prosecution if they are found to have self-managed their own abortion. In England and Wales, it is currently legal for a woman to do so through medical abortion until 9-weeks-6-days of pregnancy have elapsed. The equivalent limit is... Continue Reading →
Abortion campaigners have raised concern about the increasing number of women facing police investigation for illegal abortions. In March, during the Report Stage for the Criminal Justice Bill, it is expected that MPs will debate Dame Diana Johnson’s amendment, NC1, which calls for women to be removed from the criminal law related to abortion, thus... Continue Reading →
The Home Office data simply do not support Dr Lord’s claim of an ‘unprecedented’ increase in police investigations and prosecutions when women are suspected of performing their own illegal abortion.
In an interview with the BBC, Dr Jonathan Lord, medical director at MSI Reproductive Choices, raised concerns about an ‘unprecedented’ number of women being investigated by police on suspicion of illegally ending their pregnancy. He said that he knows of up to 60 criminal inquiries in England and Wales since 2018, compared with almost zero... Continue Reading →
Dr Lord, medical director at MSI Reproductive Choices, told the BBC that he knows of up to 60 women facing criminal inquiries for suspected abortion crime in England and Wales since 2018, compared with almost zero before. However, Home Office data show only a small uptick in 2022/23, compared to the eight years before that;... Continue Reading →
