10,741,486 unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion in the UK since 1968 when the Abortion Act 1967 came into effect.
Sunday 27 April marked 57 years since the abortion law came into force.
At the current rate of abortion one baby is lost to abortion every two minutes, 31 lives are ended every hour.
The number of abortions in England and Wales has reached a record high with 252,122 taking place in 2022, while in Scotland in 2023, there were a record 18,207 abortions, 1,600 more than in 2022, or a 9.63%% increase from 16,607 in the previous year. In Northern Ireland, there were 2,168 abortions in the year ended 31 March 2023, compared with 1,755 in the previous year, an increase of 23.53%.
This significant rise in abortions in England and Wales has accompanied the introduction of ‘DIY’ home abortion services that have been operating in England and Wales since March 2020. Since ‘DIY’ home abortions were introduced, a number of significant problems have arisen.
Abortion statistics released by the Department of Health and Social Care show that in England and Wales, there was a total of 252,122 abortions in 2022, an increase of 37,253 abortions from 2021, when there were 214,869 abortions. This is the highest ever number on record.
Opinion polls repeatedly show that the public wants increased protections for unborn babies and more support for mothers facing unplanned pregnancies – rather than the wholesale removal of legal safeguards around abortion.
Only 1% of the population want abortion to be available up to birth and 70% of women want the abortion limit to be reduced to 20 weeks or lower.
The UK’s abortion law is failing both women and unborn babies. It is a national tragedy that 10,741,486 lives have been lost since the Abortion Act 1967 came into effect, each one a unique and valuable human being who was denied the right to life.