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• The UK has the highest number of abortions than any country in Europe with an average of 600 unborn children killed every day.
• 210,529 babies were killed in the womb in 2008* (the UK Department of Health puts the figure lower at 195,296). This compares to 114,484 in Germany (which has a higher population than Britain), 115,812 in Spain (a slightly lower population), and 121,806 in Italy (roughly the same population). The proportion of induced abortions as a percentage of pregnancies was higher than the U.S. (22.3% compared to 16.6%) in 2006 (the latest available figures).
• In 1958, 1,570 abortions (a rough estimate) were carried out in Britain; in 1968, a year after the Abortion Act, the figure was 23,991. The following year, it had over doubled to 53,643. By 1973, the figure had shot up to 120,160.*
• In the UK, unborn babies with disabilities can still be aborted right up to birth, according to the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC).
• 9 out of 10 unborn babies diagnosed with spina bifida are aborted. A similar proportion of Down’s Syndrome babies are aborted.
• In May 2008, in the first vote on abortion for 18 years, MPs voted against reducing the time limit for abortions from 24 to 20 weeks, even though a lowering of the limit had been predicted. Then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the current deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg voted to keep the limit; David Cameron, the current Prime Minister, voted to lower it to 22 weeks.
• A few weeks ago, Britain’s new Coalition government announced a new maternal health initiative with an “unprecedented focus on family planning” for the developing world. The plan includes the promotion of abortion and sexual “rights” for children.

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16 percent in the United States is bad enough, and that takes place in our own toxic culture.

So I’m not looking down my nose at Britain, but I’ve lived there, and I’ve seen that it is effectively a pagan country which has come to disdain its own history and traditions. It is not surprising that it has become the epicenter of the culture of death.

The British experience with murdering seniors and persons with disabilities is as appalling as their record of baby killing. Most of it is due to ineptitude and callousness of their National Health Service.

For example, Britain was a nation of approximately 56 million people at the time when my wife and I lived there. The country had about 250 orthopedic surgeons. If granny fell and broke her hip, granny was placed in a wheelchair until she died. There simply were not enough resources to take care of her - nor should there be in the eyes of bureaucrats because, let's face it, granny was past the point where she could pay tax revenue into (and in fact drained pension income out of) the nation's treasury.

My wife and I saw many more examples of this kind of wanton cruelty and murder during our six years in London.

The UK has the highest number of abortions than any country in Europe

Is Russia considered part of Europe for the purposes of this statistic?

I recall reading that during the days of USSR that they had the highest abortion rate in the world.

Their abortion rates may have declined. I recall recently that the Russian government had instituted government payment plans to incentivize woman to have more children.

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Any culture that kills the elderly, the ill, the helpless and the young is not a human civilization any more. They are now barbaric, whether they have techo-gadgets or not. Dog eat dog, and it will devolve into worse than this rapidly. Eliminate moral absolutes which include charity and mercy to those less fortunate or weaker, and you get the killing fields in short order.