British MPs took an important step in decriminalising abortion against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ abortion. Once the amended Crime and Policing Bill becomes law, people who ...

Nearly one in three conceptions in England and Wales end in abortion, newest government figures have revealed. Statistics on ...

Scottish MPs have called for Scotland to follow England and Wales’s example by bringing in an even more liberal abortion law.

Girls aged under 16 remained the age group with the highest percentage of conceptions leading to abortion, at 61.0%. Women aged between 30 and 34 years old had the lowest percentage of conceptions ...

The percentage of conceptions leading to legal abortions in England and Wales has reached a record high, according to official statistics. And the Halton area of Cheshire had the fourth highest rate ...

The amount of pregnancies that result in abortions in England and Wales has hit a record high, figures show. Nearly three in ...

There were 247,703 conceptions leading to a legal abortion in 2022, a 13.1% rise on the 218,923 recorded in 2021, the ONS said.

A paramedic who killed his girlfriend’s baby using abortion drugs without her knowledge has been sent to prison.

We collect statistics on where abortions happen in Ireland and under what part of the legislation, and little else. We have zero interest in knowing why women have them ...

The Irish government “has done nothing to reduce the numbers of abortions…and seems not to care why women choose abortion, or ...

The latest figure is a record high for Ireland, a 8.16% surge over the 10,033 abortions carried out in Ireland in 2023.

Nearly one-third of all pregnancies in England and Wales end in abortion, recently-released government figures show.