The word ‘abortion’ describes any medical procedure that ends a pregnancy, by deliberately ending the life of an unborn child.
In the United Kingdom, over 200,000 unborn children have their lives ended each year through abortion.
Right To Life UK campaigns for the recognition of the rights of unborn children along with the creation of a medical system and society where there is increased practical care and support given to women facing an unplanned pregnancy.
We protect and defend the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death through our work across education, politics, the media and through a large network of people in constituencies across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
We are committed to an evidence-based approach to life issues, uniting people from different political ideologies and philosophical beliefs (including those who are non-religious, religious, or agnostic)
Abortion complications Bill passes Committee Stage in the House of Lords
Lord Moylan’s Complications from Abortions (Annual Report) Bill has passed its Committee Stage in the House of Lords and will now proceed to Report Stage. The Bill proposes a change to the law that would require the Department of Health and Social Care to publish an...
Scotland abortion numbers highest on record
Abortion statistics released today by Public Health Scotland show there were 18,710 abortions in Scotland in 2024, the highest number on record. This represents an increase of 468 abortions, with numbers increasing from 18,242 in 2023 to 18,710 in 2024. The...
Wrap up: MPs line up to speak out against extreme abortion up to birth amendments
During a debate on introducing extreme changes to our abortion laws, which would make it more likely that healthy babies are aborted at home for any reason, up to birth, pro-life MPs called for the repeal of the pills-by-post abortion scheme - the real cause of the...
Abortion up to birth amendment tabled by Tonia Antoniazzi MP – “Biggest threat to unborn since 1967”
An MP has tabled an amendment to a Government Bill that would change the law so it would no longer be illegal for women to perform their own abortions for any reason, and at any point up to and during birth. The amendment (NC1), tabled by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi to...
Nigel Farage condemns “ludicrous” UK law allowing abortion up to 24 weeks
Reform UK leader and MP for Clacton, Nigel Farage, has branded the UK24-week abortion limit "utterly ludicrous", “irrational” and "totally out of date". Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, the Reform MP and party leader said “I think it's ludicrous, utterly...
57th anniversary of Abortion Act coming into effect, 10,741,486 lives lost since 1968
10,741,486* unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion in the UK since 1968 when the Abortion Act 1967 came into effect. Sunday 27 April marked 57 years since the abortion law came into force. At the current rate of abortion, according to the most recent...