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 →
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.
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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 →
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.
The Abortion Pill is not always effective.
Medical Abortion (MA), aka the abortion pill, doesn’t always work; it is well-established that MA has an expected and commonly occurring treatment failure rate of about 5%. Meaning that as many as 1-in-20 pregnant women using abortion pills will subsequently need additional medical treatment for complications arising from an incomplete abortion. Medical abortion treatment failure... Continue Reading →
How much does the NHS pay BPAS?
Based on data published in its 2020 financial statement,[1] BPAS was paid £37 million by the NHS, largely for its provision of abortion services; the average fee per abortion was approximately £425. We note that BPAS provides other reproductive health services for which it is paid by the NHS, so this calculation is an estimate,... Continue Reading →
Cost of Abortions in England – 2018.
Cost of Abortions in England 2018Download Freedom of information responses show that in 2018, NHS England paid £96 million for abortion services, at an overall average cost of £510 per abortion. From BPAS published financial statements[1] and a number of FOI responses, we can derive that the average price charged to the NHS by the... Continue Reading →
What is early medical abortion at home?
Abortion supporters go to great lengths to assure women that at early gestations, their ‘pregnancy’ is nothing more than a clump of cells, that it is not yet a baby. This article shows how a baby develops in utero, from the moment of conception. On 30 March 2020, Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for... Continue Reading →
Escalating Risk Around Pills by Post
UPDATE on October 8th, 2020: "Since the 1 April the Department has not been notified of any maternal deaths relating to abortion. The Department is aware of reports of two women who died after seeking abortion treatment earlier this year. Both sought care before the temporary approval came into force on 30 March and physically... Continue Reading →
NHS pays £430 for an Abortion
We can estimate that in 2018, the average fee paid by the NHS for an abortion in England was ~£430. This is calculated from the following, though of course it is an estimate as the timeframes are not the same, and data are taken from multiple reports. In 2018, BPAS performed 71,881 abortions in England... Continue Reading →
