One in four babies are aborted in England and Wales, according to a report from Right to Life UK.
The report said that last year, 23.8 percent of pregnancies were ended by abortions. This is up from 20.7 percent in 2012.
More than 657,000 babies were born alive last year in the two countries, and more than 200,000 babies were aborted.
Catherine Robinson, a spokeswoman for Right to Life UK, said the numbers showed a “national tragedy.”
She said, “It is a national tragedy that almost 1 in 4 pregnancies (excluding stillbirths and natural miscarriage) in England and Wales ended in abortion in 2018. This represents one of the highest proportions of abortions to live births since abortion was introduced in 1967 – the only year with a higher proportion was 2001 where 23.9% of all pregnancies ended in abortion.”
She continued, “Every one of these abortions represents a failure of our society to protect the lives of babies in the womb and a failure to offer full support to women with unplanned pregnancies.
“On the other hand, these figures show the dramatic difference that laws surrounding abortion make,” Robinson added.
According to the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom, there were 192,900 abortions in 2017.
Much of the increase comes from non-residents traveling to Wales and England for the procedure.
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