{"id":59816,"date":"2024-05-26T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=59816"},"modified":"2024-05-26T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T17:08:11","slug":"uk-abortions-surge-past-record-250000-in-a-single-year-with-experts-blaming-cost-of-living-crisis-forcing-women-to-terminate-pregnancies-for-purely-financial-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/26\/uk-abortions-surge-past-record-250000-in-a-single-year-with-experts-blaming-cost-of-living-crisis-forcing-women-to-terminate-pregnancies-for-purely-financial-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Abortions surge past record 250,000 in a single year, with experts blaming cost of living crisis forcing women to terminate pregnancies &#8216;for purely financial reasons&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51172\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cost-of-living-crisis2-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cost-of-living-crisis2-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cost-of-living-crisis2-360x239.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cost-of-living-crisis2.jpeg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A record 252,122 abortions were recorded in England and Wales in 2022, with Britain&#8217;s\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-78f135b0-18f6-11ef-8bf3-35dc4684f040\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/cost-of-living-crisis\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cost of living<\/a><\/span> crisis to blame, according to charities.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-13451427\/Abortions-surge-record-250-000-single-year-experts-blaming-cost-living-crisis-forcing-women-terminate-pregnancies-purely-financial-reasons.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A record 252,122 abortions were recorded in England and Wales in 2022, with Britain&#8217;s\u00a0cost of living crisis to blame, according to charities.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Abortion.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59818,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59816\/revisions\/59818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}