Research, data analysis, and commentary on abortion and declining birth rates.
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 →
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 →
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, 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.
A new peer-reviewed article highlights major flaws in the data used by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove medical safeguards and in-person administering of abortion drugs. These flaws illustrate the ongoing problem of lack of quality abortion reporting data in the U.S. as well as in the United Kingdom. In April 2021,... Continue Reading →
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has an e-learning module for abortion providers called ‘Making abortion safe’. In the related ‘Medical abortion from 12 weeks of pregnancy: Summary sheet’, it lays out some of the risks that providers need to be aware of for these later-gestation abortions, including a 1-in-7 risk of needing further... 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 →
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 →
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 →
Yes. The RCOG states that in up to 1% of all cases pregnancy continues after the woman has taken the abortion pills and that in up 6% of all cases the abortion is incomplete; another procedure is required to correct both types of treatment failure. That said, some only consider ‘failure’ to include the first... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Medical abortion doesn't always work; it is well established that MA has an expected treatment failure rate of about 6%. Which means that as many as 1-in-17 pregnant women using abortion pills will subsequently need hospital treatment for complications arising from an incomplete abortion. Ranbaxy (UK) Limited is the manufacturer of Medabon, the mifepristone/misoprostol combination... Continue Reading →
In its SmPC (summaries of product characteristics), Ranbaxy states that there is a non-negligible risk of medical abortion treatment failure, as follows: The non-negligible risk of failure, which occurs in 4.5 to 7.8% of the cases, makes the follow-up visit mandatory in order to check that abortion is complete. The patient should be informed that... Continue Reading →
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 →
First published by Christian Concern on its website, on October 13th, 2020. A key finding from our mystery client survey is that both BPAS and Marie Stopes UK operate as if abortion is legal by choice in Great Britain. A woman simply has to ask for one and can provide any reason for choosing her termination... Continue Reading →
