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26th June 2022
12:21am BST

And while numbers have been going up since 2016, this is the highest number since the procedure became legal in Great Britain through the 1967 Abortion Act.
Speaking about the last figures, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Clare Murphy, explains:
“The pandemic, and the policies adopted by the government in response, have had a clear impact on women’s pregnancy choices."
She added:
"Faced with economic uncertainty and job insecurity, women and their partners have been making sometimes tough decisions around continuing or ending a pregnancy.”
"The number will keep rising," explains said Jonathan Lord, the medical director of MSI Reproductive Choices.
"The data shows abortion is an essential choice, and with continuing problems accessing contraception coupled with the cost of living crisis, we would not be surprised to see greater demand over the coming months.”