MICHAEL WALSH: A horrifyingly released statistical report from the Office for National Statistics Wales in 2022 revealed that abortion is at the highest rate ever recorded in that country.

According to the ONS, 29.7% of known pregnancies resulted in a termination that year, continuing a trend of rising abortion rates since 2012.

Abortion is the deliberate destruction of an unborn living baby, as compared to miscarriages or stillborn babies who were wanted and whose death was not on purpose.

This was covered in the UK Independent. Britain has 68 million people living there, and a birthrate of 1.44, the lowest rate on record, significantly below the replacement population rate of 2.1.

The birthrate in America is 1.66 as of 2022. NPR this week said that lower fertility was overall a net positive, since childbirth is painful and babies cost a lot of money.

The decline in fertility rates and rise in abortion rates have been the most dramatic in Britain among the 20-24 and 25-29 age groups.

In raw numbers, 247,703 British pregnancies ended in abortion in 2022, an increase of 13% from the prior year.

Separate data published by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), which uses a slightly broader set of clinical reporting metrics, placed the total number of abortions even higher, at 251,377. Both figures mark a historic peak since abortion was legalized in 1967 under the Abortion Act.

The politics of abortion have changed in recent years, as some in the West, such as Elon Musk, say that Western countries need more babies and that higher birth rates should be a policy goal.

In Russia, marriage and raising families are state policy with massive tax breaks, state subsidies, focused financial and healthcare support, and even free homes given to those who marry and have children.

In America, the Natalist Movement is a community of caring people seeking social and cultural change to promote the birth of more kids and to encourage families to have more children.

In Britain, however, abortion culture is growing and abortion rates are higher than ever.

Abortion as a share of British pregnancy outcomes rose sharply in nearly every demographic, with a particularly stark rise among younger age groups.

For girls under 16, the abortion rate was especially high: 61% of all known pregnancies in that cohort ended in termination. In women under 20, just over half of all pregnancies, 50.2%, ended in abortion.

These rates have been rising steadily over the past decade and appear to be driven by a combination of socioeconomic pressures, shifting sexual behavior, and evolving access to abortion services.

Health officials and advocacy groups have pointed to a variety of contributing factors. A prominent theme in recent public health commentary is the role of cost-of-living pressures.

Pro-abortion campaigners and some healthcare officials argue that economic hardship is making women feel unable to continue pregnancies, even if they might otherwise wish to.

One spokesperson from a pro-abortion charity stated, ‘No woman should have to end a pregnancy purely because she cannot afford to have a child.’

Britain’s Labour Party is currently having to decide whether to further cut social services or raise taxes to cover the government’s budget.

Another critical change to abortion policy in recent years may have had an effect: the widespread adoption of at-home medical abortions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UK government made ‘telemedicine’ abortions, where patients receive pills in the mail and terminate the pregnancy at home, permanent in 2022.

Over 60% of all abortions in England and Wales now occur via this method, representing a dramatic shift in how terminations are administered.

Critics argue that the normalization of home abortions is contributing to a higher overall rate by lowering both the logistical and psychological barriers, sometimes referred to in medicine as ‘informed consent,’ that traditionally accompanied surgical or in-clinic procedures.

Pro-life advocates have pointed to the data as evidence that economic and cultural pressures are eroding a societal ethic of life.

From this perspective, the high rate of abortions, particularly among teenagers and low-income women, reflects not freedom, but desperation.

In their view, a truly supportive society would respond not by expanding abortion access but by creating stronger support structures for mothers, improving childcare access, and offering real alternatives such as adoption.

At the same time, opponents of abortion argue that the current regulatory trend is dangerously permissive, and that further liberalization would only deepen what they view as a public health and moral crisis.

In America, deaths from legal abortion are often covered up and minimized by the media, the abortion industry, and the government to protect the abortion industry.

If the current birthrate continues in Britain, its population today of 68 million people, in 50 years, will have shrunk by half to 32 million.

A READER COMMENTS: Abortion is an act of worship to Satan.”Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: Abortions Make Up 42% Of All Deaths. abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide in 2024 (for the sixth year in a row), according to new data published by Worldometer, which shows there were 45.1 million abortions globally last year.

This surpassed deaths caused by cancer (8.2 million), smoking (5 million), HIV/AIDS (1.7 million), traffic fatalities (1.35 million) and suicide (1.1 million), Breitbart noted, adding that the combined total of all non-abortion deaths was estimated at 62.5 million, so the procedures accounted for just over 42% of all human deaths in 2024.

In the United States, abortion accounts for roughly one-third of all annual deaths. The figure among African Americans reportedly exceeds 60% of total deaths in that community. by Vision Editorial Team https://vision.org.au/news/abortions-make-up-42-of-all-deaths

QUOTABLE QUOTE: “Europe today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself, or even take its own side in an argument. By the end of the lifespan of most people alive, Europe will not be Europe and the peoples of Europe will have lost the only place in the world we had to call home.’ ~ Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe. You can share this story on social media: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

SUPER NEW GENERATION BOOKS AND NOVELS: Romance, Travel, Maritime, War and Culture: Britain and Europe’s most successful writer, ​Michael Walsh, also available on Amazon https://michaelwalshbooks.wordpress.com/