Contrary to assertions by the anti-choice lobby, medical research consistently shows that women who have had an abortion have no greater risk of breast cancer than those who have not.
A major ten-year study of 100,000 women published in 2007 in the US ‘Archives of Internal Medicine’ has concluded that neither induced nor spontaneous abortion was associated with the incidence of breast cancer. The research was conducted by researchers affiliated with the Harvard Medical School and th e Harvard School of Public Health.
One in five pregnancies…
One in five of all pregnancies ends in abortion.
What % of the UK is pro-choice?
76 per cent of the UK population are pro-choice
Most abortions take place…when?
Almost 90% of abortions take place in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy
One in three women
One in three women has an abortion in their lifetime
UK abortion laws are restrictive
Abortion laws in the UK are more restrictive than in almost every other European country, where abortion on request is legal in the first three months of pregnancy