Plans are to be announced by the Department of Health for a system to be put into place to offer women independent counselling before committing themselves to having an abortion. The move is designed to give women more ‘breathing space’, according to pro-life campaigners and could result in as many as 60,000 fewer terminated pregnancies read more »

Women, who have fallen pregnant and turned to pregnancy counselling centres run by faith-based and anti-abortion organisations for help, are the victims of inaccurate information, scaremongering and emotive language according to a pro-choice charity who conducted an undercover investigation. There are hundreds of crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs) that offer counselling and advice independently of the read more »

Government statistics show that the number of abortions among women over 40 has risen by more than 30 per cent in a decade, reports the Telegraph. According to government statistics, the number of women aged 40 and over who have had an abortion has risen by almost a third since 2000. Last year alone a read more »

Today marks the beginning of a High Court battle which could lead to a controversial change in abortion laws. As it stands, women who are in their fist nine weeks of pregnancy and choose to undergo an early medical abortion must take two sets of tablets between 24 and 48 hours apart under the supervision read more »

Many women who have a termination don’t realise they run risks of subsequently giving birth to premature and low weight babies. With a 35% increased risk of a low birth weight baby and a 36% raised risk of a pre-term baby in later pregnancies for those who aborted in their first or second trimester, surely read more »

According to official figures for England and Wales, the number of abortions among girls aged 16 increased by 10% in 2007 to 4,376. According to an article on the BBC, the number of abortions in the under 16s has risen by 27% in the past decade. Gill Frances, chair of the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory read more »