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An estimated 10,135,618 lives have been misplaced for the reason that 1967 Abortion Act got here into impact, in response to the Right to Life UK group.
The determine, masking England, Wales and Scotland, was launched on Thursday to coincide with the fifty fifth anniversary of the Abortion Act coming into impact in 1968, six months after it obtained Royal Assent.
Right to Life UK mentioned the numbers had been a “nationwide tragedy” because it referred to as on individuals to do extra to defend the rights of the unborn.
Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson mentioned: “The UK’s abortion regulation is failing each ladies and unborn infants.
“It is a nationwide tragedy that 10,135,618 lives have been misplaced for the reason that 1967 Abortion Act got here into impact, every one a novel and worthwhile human being who was denied the fitting to life.
“Every one among these abortions represents a collective failure of our society to guard the lives of infants within the womb and a failure to supply full help to ladies with unplanned pregnancies.
“While we could pause to commemorate this tragedy, at the present time additionally serves as a name to motion for individuals across the nation to resume their efforts to do every little thing they will to assist guarantee extra lives are saved from abortion sooner or later.”
Data from the Department of Health and Social Care revealed that there have been a file 214,869 abortions in England and Wales in 2021, a rise of 4,009 abortions from 2020.
An extra 13,758 terminations passed off in Scotland in the identical yr.
The rise coincided with the primary full yr of abortion ‘tablets by submit’ in England and Wales. The service was launched throughout the pandemic to permit ladies and ladies to obtain abortion tablets within the submit from abortion suppliers after an e-consultation.
In gentle of the growing numbers of abortions, Right to Life UK is asking individuals to contemplate volunteering with being pregnant help centres or different pro-life initiatives, and call their MPs to encourage them to help protections for unborn infants and their moms.
“By being proactive and taking motion, each single one among us could be a part of constructing a pro-life nation the place we shield and defend the fitting to life of each human being from conception to pure loss of life,” Ms Robinson added.
