The abortion rate is rocketing – and the reasons behind it make total sense

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With terminations at a record high in England and Wales, Helen Coffey investigates exactly what is behind the increase in unwanted pregnancies I n 2026, information is more readily available to us than ever before. Want to know the answer to a question? You can google it – or, increasingly, ChatGPT it – watch an in-depth YouTube video, or view snappy TikTok clips on the subject. But despite our unprecedented access to knowledge, we appear to have gone backwards in some areas. Namely,