Research, data analysis, and commentary on abortion, fertility trends, and pro-natal policies.
Update on 15 January 2026 OHID has just published the 2023 abortion statistics for England and Wales. I have increased my 2024 estimate for the UK total to 305,000 - details are in this post: 2023: an 11% increase in abortion across England and Wales. In 2024, there were 300,000 abortions in the UK, an 11%... Continue Reading →
There were probably more than 300,000 abortions in the UK in 2024, up from our conservative estimate of 292,000 in 2023. This estimate 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 →
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 →
