An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Statistics and policy
 
 
25 April 2011

UK: Government loses case over late abortion data

The Department of Health has lost a court battle to keep from publishing some details on statistics for abortions carried out on grounds of fetal anomaly.

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24 January 2011

Q&A: The National Service Specification for Termination of Pregnancy Services

By Donagh Stenson, Associate Marketing Director, BPAS.

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  12 January 2011

USA: New study of abortion trends

The steady decline in the US abortion rate since 1981 appears to have stalled, new research by the Guttmacher Institute finds. 

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  10 December 2010

UK: National statistics on fertility trends

The size of the average family seems to be getting smaller, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

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25 May 2010

UK: Abortion statistics show small decline

The abortion rate has dropped for the second year running in England and Wales, official statistics show.

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21 May 2009

New abortion statistics published for England and Wales

The 2008 statistics, published by the Department of Health, show a small fall in the abortion rate and the total number of abortions compared with 2007. 

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  6 March 2009

The economic cost of unsafe abortion

Researchers at the University of Sussex Institute of Development Studies have calculated the global economic cost of the morbidity and mortality caused by unsafe abortion. 

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