Abortion

(asked on 24th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of women who had an abortion in 2013 were married at the time of the abortion; what the modal (a) age of the women, (b) length gestation of the pregnancy, (c) number of previous children born to the women and (d) number of previous abortions undergone by the women was; and what the most common legal grounds was under which such abortions were performed.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 1st July 2014

The number of abortions for married women or women in a civil partnership, resident in England and Wales, 2013 is shown in the following table.

Proportion of all abortions

Modal Age (years)

Modal gestation (weeks)

Modal Previous births1

Modal Previous abortions2

Most Common ground

Married/civil partnership

16%

33

6

2

0

C

1Number of previous livebirths and stillbirths over 24 weeks

2Number of previous legal terminations

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