Today, Monday 27 October, marks the 58th anniversary of the Abortion Act receiving royal assent.
Since then, a staggering 10,880,563* unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion across the UK – one baby is lost to abortion every two minutes; 31 lives are ended every hour**.
There were 252,122 abortions in England and Wales in 2022 according to statistics released by the Department of Health and Social Care, an increase of 37,253 (17.34%) from 2021. This is the most recent year for which abortion statistics for England and Wales are available.
This was the highest number of abortions ever recorded in England and Wales in a single year.
This significant rise in abortions accompanied the second full year that at-home abortion services operated in England and Wales.
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Right To Life UK is calling for Peers to support Baroness Monckton and Baroness Stroud’s amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill to overturn the highly controversial abortion up to birth amendment (clause 191) and to reinstate in-person consultations with a medical professional prior to an abortion taking place at home.
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.
A spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said
“Our abortion laws continue to fail both women and unborn babies. Since the Abortion Act received royal assent in 1967, a devastating 10,880,563 lives have been lost to abortion, each one a precious, unique and irreplaceable human being who was denied the right to life”.
“Each of these abortions represents a collective failure of our society to protect the lives of babies in the womb and provide full support to women with unplanned pregnancies”.
“As we pause to reflect on this tragedy, this day also serves as a call to action for people around the country to renew their efforts to do everything they can to help ensure more lives are saved from abortion in the future”.
“This includes contacting MPs and Peers, asking them to ensure that protections for unborn babies are introduced and safeguards are strengthened to protect both mothers and babies – as well as volunteering with pregnancy support centres and joining other pro-life efforts that support mothers and their children in pregnancy and beyond”.
“By taking action, each one of us can be part of building a pro-life nation that protects and defends the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death”.
