This week Right to Life UK marked the anniversary of the passage of the Abortion Act by noting that it had likely resulted within the deaths of nearly 11 million babies.
27 October was the 58th anniversary of the Act receiving royal assent and in keeping with Right To Life UK, there have been 10,880,563 abortions since then.
With official data for 2023-2025 being currently unavailable, that figure was arrived at using the official data before that point and by assuming that the abortion figures for those years could be similar to in 2022.
Right To Life UK said the figure represented a baby being terminated in Britain every two minutes, with 31 killed every hour on average.
The 2022 figure was a record high, being up 17 per cent from 2021. This was resulting from at-home abortion services being available that 12 months and will be a post-lockdown spike. However, the relaxed rules around at-home abortions introduced during covid remain in place, so it’s entirely possible that the 2022 figure is a legitimate one to make use of as the idea for future projections.
The House of Lords is currently debating an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, passed by the House of Commons, that might remove all criminal sanctions for illegal abortions. Effectively the amendment would make abortion as much as the purpose of birth legal.
Last week crossbench peer Lord Alton condemned the “grotesque measure”, saying that a Bill ostensibly about tackling crime and anti-social behaviour had been “hijacked” and was a vehicle for extreme pro-abortion views.
Right To Life UK has joined with Lord Alton in supporting amendments to the Bill that might reverse the Commons amendment and further reinstate the requirement that an in-person consultation with a medical skilled happen before an abortion.
It points to opinion polls suggesting that just one per cent of Britain’s population want abortion as much as the purpose of birth to be legalised, while 70 per cent of ladies actually want the abortion limit reduced from 24 weeks to twenty weeks or less.
Catherine Robinson, spokesperson for Right To Life UK, said, “Our abortion laws proceed to fail each 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 a precious, unique and irreplaceable human being who was denied the best to life.
“Each of those abortions represents a collective failure of our society to guard the lives of babies within the womb and supply full support to women with unplanned pregnancies.”
Robinson is looking on supporters to contact MPs and peers to encourage them to strengthen protections for the unborn and pregnant women.
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