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Abortion figures for England and Wales, released today, show an increase of two.1% more than last year’s figures.
Julie Millington, on behalf with the ProLife Alliance, comments:
‘Despite elevated access to contraception, relentless sex education programmes, and easy availability of the abortifacient morning-after-pill, the abortion figures in England and Wales are climbing towards 200,000 a year and most likely to continue to rise.
‘A colossal overall boost in numbers within the decades because abortion was decriminalised may be noted in one of many graphs inside the statistics (Figure 1), where it shows that around five girls per 1000 had abortions in the early years, compared to 17 per 1000 these days.
‘We note too that the private abortion providers (Marie Stopes, BPAS, et al) have elevated considerably their share of this grisly industry, particularly as agents for the NHS, a share which they have tripled inside the last ten years (see Figure 2). Their overall percentage when combined with private provision is now some 60% of the market. It really is hardly surprising, consequently, that we saw them lately banding together against any restrictive reform with the Abortion Act. Their livelihood depends upon abortion.
‘It is always unpleasant to scan chilling information on the suppression of pregnancy, and heartbreaking to see the totals as they climb year right after year, knowing that every single number represents a tiny human life that has been ended.
‘On this occasion, nonetheless, we are also concerned concerning the extremely worrying suppression of data in the existing statistics, which so obviously comes inside the wake of and as a response towards the cleft-palate legal challenge. Info which was previously offered has been withdrawn.
‘Why in an age when the Government continually preaches elevated transparency and public accountability, is less detail about abortion now accessible than it was 5 years ago? Illegal abortion remains a criminal act and no attempts of any kind should be produced to bury information relevant to assessment of correct practice in this region.’
Julia Millington
Political Director
ProLife Alliance
Tel: 020 7581 6939
Fax: 020 7581 3868
info@prolife.org.uk
http://www.prolife.org.uk