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Birth Rate

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL3672, tabled on 27 March 2024

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the Abortion Act 1967 on UK birth rates.

Answered on

10 April 2024

No assessment has been made of the impact of the Abortion Act 1967 on United Kingdom birth rates. Parliament decided the circumstances under which abortion can legally be undertaken. Under the act, women have access to safe, legal, regulated abortion services.