From 1984 to 2004 the abortion rate in England climbed from 11 per 1000 to 18 per 1000 reaching a rate of 185,400 abortions in one year. Many think that increased availability of PlanB by providing it over the counter would lower abortion rates. Plan B is a drug containing the same chemicals as the birth control pill, only many times the strength.
LifeNews.com reports:
In the past five years since the morning-after pill was made available over-the-counter, hundreds of thousands of women have used it but the number of British abortions has also risen steadily from 186,300 in 2001 to 194,400 last year.
Professor Anna Glasier, director of the Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust in Edinburgh, wrote an article in the British Medical Journal showing that, while the morning after pill had been called a solution for both abortion and teen pregnancies, it failed to deliver.
“Despite the clear increase in the use of emergency contraception, abortion rates have not fallen in the UK,” she wrote.
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