lifenews.com
2026-05-01
Today marks the 58th anniversary of the Abortion Act coming into effect in 1968 - six months after it received Royal Assent.
Since then, a staggering 11,105,671* unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion across the UK. At the current rate of abortion, according to the most recent figures, one baby is lost to abortion every two minutes, 34 lives are ended every hour.
The number of abortions in England and Wales has reached a record high with 278,740 taking place in 2023, and a total of almost 300,000 across the whole of the UK. There were a record 18,710 terminations performed in Scotland in 2024. In Northern Ireland, there were 2,899 abortions in the year ending 31 March 2025, compared with 2,795 in the previous year.