A sharp increase in the number of women having abortions in their early thirties is partly being driven by the financial crisis of recent years, experts say.
The figure for women between the ages of 30 and 34 rose by 10% between 2009 and 2011, according to figures from the Department of Health. By contrast, the number of girls under 18 who had terminations over the same period dropped by more than 18%.
Over the past decade, the abortion rate for women aged 30 to 34 has increased faster than for any other age bracket ”” from 14.2 women per thousand in 2001 to 17.2 in 2011.
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IF there is a real correlation here, this is repulsive.