Research, data analysis, and commentary on abortion and declining birth rates.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
The number of abortions in England and Wales for 2023 could reach an unprecedented high of 325,000, according to an independent public health consultant. This would mean that 1-in-3 pregnancies now end in abortion, up from 1-in-4 in the past.
In England during 2021, at least 3,900 women were admitted to an NHS hospital for surgical treatment of complications arising from abortion. On 23 November 2023, the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities (OHID), part of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), published new official statistics reporting the rate of complications arising from... Continue Reading →
The annual number of abortions in England and Wales is increasing at an unprecedented rate; projections for 2023 indicate that 1-in-3 of all viable pregnancies are ended by abortion, a significant increase from 1-in-4 in 2019. BPAS and MSI Reproductive Choices point to the cost-of-living crisis as the key driver of this worrying trend. The... Continue Reading →
The number of abortions in England and Wales for 2023 could be as high as 325,000. Official government data for January to June 2022 reported a staggering 17% increase over the same period in 2021. On 22 November 2023, Parliament published written evidence submitted by MSI Reproductive Choices to the inquiry ‘Impact of the rising... Continue Reading →
This Post has been updated and republished here. 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. Since that law changed in March 2020, there has been a two and a half times increase in the annual number of abortions.... Continue Reading →
Abortion providers are massively under-reporting the incidence of complications arising from incomplete medical abortions. They also under-state the risk of an incomplete abortion when consenting women for this procedure. Thankfully, Lord Jackson has questioned the Government about this critical issue and is holding the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) to account to ensure... Continue Reading →
...a discovery that half of all generation Z or “zoomer” pregnancies now end in abortion. The research conducted by Kevin Duffy...
Almost half of pregnancies among 15-24 year-olds in Britain – the so-called ‘Generation Z’ – end in abortion according to a new analysis. Using data from the UK’s Office for National Statistics, researcher Kevin Duffy says that in 2012, 34% of viable pregnancies for the15–24-year-old cohort ended in abortion; by 2021 this proportion had risen to 45%.
Official data show an increasing year-on-year trend in young women and girls delaying their first childbirth. Whilst changes in sexual relationships and use of contraception are factors influencing this, we note that in 2022, half of all viable pregnancies for Generation Z ended in elective abortion. This more recent post verifies that in 2022, for... Continue Reading →
It has recently become clear that the UK’s birth rate is in decline, raising concerns about future economic, social, and political impact. There are many factors driving this trend, the whys, that other posts will address; the following addresses the ‘how’, concluding that we are facing a UK birthed baby shortage that is driven by... Continue Reading →
This post was first published by Christian Today on 14 July 2023. Across England and Wales, three in every four abortions - or 75% - are now performed by women at home using abortion pills. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) recently reported a 17% increase in the number of abortions: a total of 123,219... Continue Reading →
In the US, in the nine months following Dobbs, there have been 81,000 less abortions in those States that have enacted life-affirming laws limiting access to abortion; that’s about 9,000 less per month. Of course, many women have been able to travel to access abortion in other States where these laws are not in force,... Continue Reading →
A new report in the USA shows how the Dobbs decision last year, led to 32,000 less abortions in the following six months. Average monthly abortion totals have fallen by about 6% and are now back to the levels reported in 2020, reversing a multi-year increasing trend. #WeCount is a national abortion reporting effort that... Continue Reading →
In 2021/22, the twelve months ending March 2022, BPAS performed 93,136 abortions, an increase of 18% over the total in 2017/18, a period in which the total number of abortions in England and Wales increased by 11%. BPAS continues to expand its share of the UK abortion market, providing about 43% of the total in... Continue Reading →
Abortions at home data in tab T2 of this file at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2021
