Women in Scotland are aborting their babies at increasingly higher rates due to ‘financial pressures‘ and the overall cost of living, caused in large part by the UK government’s embrace of climate change policies including “net zero” carbon targets, as well as the need to cover the costs of pandemic lockdowns.
According to Public Health Scotland, there were 16,584 abortions in 2022, representing a 19 percent increase compared to 2021.
As of 2022, the rate of abortion in Scotland is 16.1 per 1000 women, an overall increase of almost five percent in comparison to the levels in 2013.
Racheal Clarke, Chief of Staff at British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), told BBC Radio Scotland’s drive time program:
“I think that what we see increasingly are women who, a few years ago, may have chosen to continue a pregnancy, who ultimately now are faced with really difficult decisions about the future of their job, their certainty of housing, about whether they can afford food and heating and electricity.”
Women in poorer areas of the country had twice as many abortions as those in richer areas, with 4,744, compared to 2,219 in the “most well-off places.” Household energy prices doubled between 2019 and 2022 in Scotland.
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