Unlike Ireland, the United Kingdom releases detailed statistics on its abortion industry each year.
A number of aspects in particular always stand out, those being the fact that abortion numbers are increasing, the numbers of women availing of repeat abortions are increasing and the fact that 99% of these abortions are funded by the NHS.
Here is a summary of the statistics from 2020:
The age standardised abortion rate for residents is 18.2 per 1,000 women, the highest rate since the Abortion Act was introduced.
The abortion rate has increased for women over 35 (from 9.7 to 10.6 per 1,000 between 2019 and 2020).
The abortion rate in 2020 was highest for women aged 21 (at 30.6 per 1,000 women)
81% of abortions in 2020 were for women whose marital status was given as single
51% were to women whose marital status was given as single with a partner
77% of women having abortions reported their ethnicity as White, 9% as Asian, 7% as Black, 4% as Mixed and 2% as Other.
98.1% of abortions (205,930) were performed under ground C (That the pregnancy has NOT exceeded its 24th week and that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman) i.e. because they chose to get one and the doctor ticked the box, which makes a mockery of that phrase ‘trust doctors’
1.5% were carried out under ground E (That there is substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped)
There were 229 (7%) ground E abortions at 24 weeks and over
In 2020, 42% of women undergoing abortions had had one or more previous abortions. The proportion has increased steadily from 34% in 2010
Complications were reported in 247 out of 209,917 cases in 2020, a rate of 1 in every 850 abortions (1.2 per 1,000 abortions)
Women living in the most deprived areas are more than twice as likely to have abortions than women living in the least deprived areas. The rate in the most deprived decile is 26.8 per 1,000 women, compared to 12.1 per 1,000 women for women living in the least deprived areas. (Figure 14).
1,301 girls under 19 were getting at least their second abortion
20% of all foreign abortions were to women from the Irish Republic. 12% of these were repeat users of abortion.
Almost 5% came from Poland and Malta
We will add only three short lines of commentary.
One, abortion is increasing. Whatever is being done about abortion currently is failing miserably.
Two, there is a clear connection between impoverished areas and high abortion rates. Abortion is how the wealthy control the poor.
Three, the British abortion industry’s corrosive influence upon Catholic countries such as Ireland, Poland and Malta continues. British prolifers have an added responsibility to get their country to become prolife because its errors are spreading throughout Europe.
Four, the recent successes of Catholic prolife groups in the UK shows that Catholics should be at the forefront of such movements.
You can read the stats in full here> Abortion Statistics, England and Wales: 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Shocking.