The Office for National Statistics has recently published a report on conception and childbirth.
It seems that conceptions outside marriage are now at 56%, even if the actual births outside marriage are slightly lower.
The report also shows that of the 866,000 babies conceived in Britain in 2006 just 78% made it to the maternity ward.
While a few were lost to "natural miscarriage" and even fewer to illegal abortion, it seems that 22% of them were ended by legal abortion. We thus had 190,000 legal abortions in 2006.
If the procedures are carried on equally seven days a week, every day of the year we have 520 abortions in this country. The number is large enough to suggest that for some mothers termination is a substitute for contraception.
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