{"id":90293,"date":"2020-03-06T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90293"},"modified":"2020-03-05T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:25:07","slug":"mirror-abortion-rates-hit-record-levels-as-parents-worry-about-cost-of-bringing-up-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90293","title":{"rendered":"(Mirror) Abortion rates hit record levels as parents worry about cost of bringing up children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abortion rates have hit a record high in England and Wales as parents are becoming more conscious of the costs of bringing up a child.<\/p>\n<p>Office for National Statistics figures show 24% of females who fell pregnant in 2018 chose a termination.<\/p>\n<p>Up from 22.7% the previous year, it was the highest percentage since records began 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion care charity BPAS suggests financial concerns are putting women off. Clare Murphy, director of external affairs, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve seen an increasingly cautious approach, likely to be driven by factors from the two-child limit to Brexit .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Government\u2019s policy of limiting welfare benefits to two children prevents parents from seeking extra funding for a third child, if born after April 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/abortion-rates-hit-record-levels-21634433\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abortion rates have hit a record high in England and Wales as parents are becoming more conscious of the costs of bringing up a child. Office for National Statistics figures show 24% of females who fell pregnant in 2018 chose<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90293\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,445,101,199,168,104,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-wales-england-uk","category-children","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90294,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90293\/revisions\/90294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}