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Kevin Duffy'’s analysis of ONS conceptions data over the 10 years to 2022 illustrates that approximately half of women who have not had a child by the age of 30 would not have been childless without abortion in the years before this. Duffy says: “For these women it was a decision upon becoming pregnant, not to continue into motherhood at that time, for a whole myriad of reasons.”

Report links rising childlessness to abortion amid record-low fertility in England, Wales

Nov 22, 2025

By Andy Drozdziak

A report called “Abortion and Childlessness” shows that many women who have abortions in their 20s may be faced with... Read more