Safe, Legal and Rare?
Repeat abortions are now at record levels – in 2006, almost 60,000 were carried out on women who had previously had a termination, a rise of five per cent over two years. Some were having their fifth and even sixth abortions. Almost a third of all abortions are now carried out on women who have previously terminated a pregnancy. The figures were revealed by Anne Keen, the health minister, in a parliamentary answer.