Abortion rates hit record high with almost one in four pregnancies now being terminated

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Abortion rates hit record high with almost one in four pregnancies now being terminated
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ABORTION rates are at a record high with almost one in four pregnancies now being terminated, figures show. There were 839,043 conceptions in England and Wales in 2018 but roughly 201,360 — 24 per …

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Clare Murphy, of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, said: “We’ve seen an increasingly cautious approach to family size — likely to be driven by factors ranging from the two-child limit on benefits, to uncertainty about“Women of any age take the prospect of becoming a parent extremely seriously and want to achieve financial security, and ideally a home, before doing so.

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