Lucy Ward and Riazat Butt
Wednesday October 24, 2007
The Guardian
An ultrasound scan of a nine-week foetus. Photograph: Science photo library
Lord Steel, architect of the 1967 Abortion Act, says today that abortion is being used as a form of contraception in Britain and admits he never anticipated "anything like" the current number of terminations when leading the campaign for reform.
There were almost 194,000 terminations in England and Wales last year, rising to over 200,000 when women coming from Northern Ireland and the Irish republic are included. That was almost 4% up on the previous year, with abortions among teenagers the fastest rising group.
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