Abortions Hit Record High With Majority Done at Home: Statistics

The number of abortions in England and Wales is at record levels having surpassed a quarter of a million, official figures reveal. There were 251,377 abortions in the two countries in 2022, an increase of 17 percent on the previous year, according to figures released by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) on Thursday. Medical abortions involving the use of drugs accounted for 86 percent of terminations. At-home abortions—where a pregnant woman takes both pills at home—is the most common procedure, accounting for 61 percent of all terminations in 2022, a rise of 9 percent since 2021. The DHSC said that there had been an “upward trend” of medical abortions since mifepristone was first licenced for use in the UK in 1991....