As many as one in three pregnancies in the UK may now be ending in abortion, projections from an independent public health consultant state – prompting alarm from Christians.
A new report from Kevin Duffy of Percuity says that while one in four pregnancies ended in abortion in 2019, the figures are predicted to have shot up to one in three for 2023. Overall, the number of abortions in England and Wales this year could be as high as 325,000.
Abortion organisations are pointing to the cost-of-living crisis as the reason for this increase, as mothers who can’t financially support a child choose instead to end their pregnancy. The Chief of Staff at British Pregnancy Advisory Service, for example, recently tweeted: ‘Where women can’t afford children, we want to ensure they have the legal right and ability to make the difficult decision to end a pregnancy.’
Abortion matters
The issue of abortion will always be close to the hearts of us as evangelical Christians – and many others …