New research into public attitudes to abortion shows that 63% of adults in the UK agreed that ‘if a woman wants an abortion, she should not have to continue with her pregnancy’, while 18% disagreed.
The authors sought to establish how many pregnancies ending in either childbirth or abortion are unintended, and what proportion of women use emergency contraception to try to prevent pregnancy.
Sex education alone does not cut pregnancies and abortions among teenagers in the UK, claims a Medical Research Council study in the British Medical Journal.
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