It's a shocking but telling statistic.. Repeat abortions have reached a record high, figures released today reveal. One third of women who had an abortion last year were on their second, third or even eighth termination, new figures show. The statistics will fuel the debate over whether some women are using abortion as a form of contraception. In total, there were 64,715 repeat abortions in 2...

MPs voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal to introduce 'independent' advice for women seeking abortions

If we are going to have a sensible debate about the NHS in this country, we need to deal with the myth that the NHS is free. Yes, the NHS is free at the point of use, but we all pay for it through taxation. I suspect that slightly fewer people would still ‘love the NHS’ if they knew precisely how much they were contributing towards its costs through all the taxes that they pay. I say t...

"Fury as NHS trust says only women between 39.5 and 40 years old can have IVF", reports the Daily Mail. The 'cruel and bizarre' restrictions were put in place by NHS managers in North Yorkshire struggling to deal with a huge deficit at their health trust.Guidance from NICE we are told, says that women should be offered three cycles of IVF treatment free on the NHS, if they have had ferti...

Interesting to note that 10,000 Polish women came to Britain for NHS abortions last year. The practice has cost the service a total of more than £10MILLION. Terminations are illegal in Poland, so the women find temporary work here to get a National Insurance number, register with a GP then have the op or an abortion pill. One London doctor who asked not to be named said: “As long a...

From Right Democrat, who also has excellent pieces on the need for the Empoyee Free Choice Act and on the need to renew America's manufacturting base: The best way to reduce the number of abortions is to offer social and economic supports to women facing an unexpected pregnancy. Toward that end, Senator Bob Casey D-PA and Congressman Lincoln Davis D-TN have sponsored the Pregnant Women Support Act...

Will any more people die as a result of Obama's lifting of the ban on federal funding of abortion-providers abroad than would have died as result of John McCain's Bush-like poverty inducement (poverty being far and away the largest cause of death before as well as after birth - hopelessly poor women have abortions) and never-ending war (with, among so much else,) all the abortions that follow all ...

From The Elliot Institute A leading researcher and expert on post-abortion issues is commending a new package of bills introduced by legislators in Michigan that aims to put an end to coerced abortions. Five women sponsored the Coercive Abortion Prevention Act, which makes it a crime to coerce a woman into an unwanted abortion. It also requires abortion clinics to ask women if they are being coerc...

BBC:Some women in countries where abortion is restricted are using the internet to buy medication enabling them to abort a pregnancy at home, the BBC has learned. Women in Northern Ireland and over 70 countries with restrictions have used one of the main websites, Women on Web. This is one of the best examples of why we do not need stricy abortion laws. Women, if they want/need and abortion will h...

More Polish women are travelling abroad to have abortions to bypass strict laws outlawing the practice in their overwhelmingly catholic country, a pro-choice group said, noting that the same is true for Irish women.