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(Right to Life UK<\/a>) A\u00a0new poll<\/a>\u00a0shows that a majority of women who take a position on where abortion pills should be taken support an end to \u2018DIY\u2019 at-home abortion schemes and want to ensure that abortion pills should only be taken under medical supervision at a clinic.<\/p>\n

According to the latest YouGov polling, when asked whether the two pills used in a medical abortion should be taken at home without medical supervision or in a clinic with medical supervision, 12% of women didn\u2019t know their position on the matter; however, of those who did take a position, 51% thought medical abortions should only happen in a clinic under medical supervision while less than 49% supported continuing to allow abortion pills to be taken at home without in-person medical supervision.<\/p>\n

Abortions have increased since \u2018DIY\u2019 home abortions allowed<\/strong><\/p>\n

The abortion provisions that allowed abortion pills to be taken outside of a clinical setting were introduced at the end of March 2020 as a\u00a0temporary measure<\/a>\u00a0as part of the Government\u2019s response to COVID-19. While this was intended to be a temporary measure, the\u00a0Westminster<\/a>\u00a0Parliament made \u2018DIY\u2019 home abortion a permanent feature of the law in March 2022.<\/p>\n

The devolved parliament in\u00a0Wales<\/a>\u00a0had already made \u2018DIY\u2019 home abortion permanent in February 2022 and\u00a0Holyrood<\/a>\u00a0followed suit in May of the same year.<\/p>\n

Since \u2018DIY\u2019 abortions were introduced in 2020, the abortion numbers have\u00a0continued to increase each year<\/a>. Over the\u00a0first six months<\/a>\u00a0of 2022, there were almost 18,000 more abortions compared with the same time period over the previous year.<\/p>\n

An increase in ambulance call-outs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year, following a Freedom of Information request to ambulance trusts in England, GB News\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0there had been a substantial increase in the number of women calling 999 in relation to abortion pills taken at home and an increase in ambulance dispatches.<\/p>\n

They found that the number of call-outs relating to abortion increased in London from 93 in 2019 to 150 in 2020, a 61% increase; and in the South West, from 33 in 2019 to 74 in 2020, a 124% increase.<\/p>\n

The ambulance trusts which responded to the FOI from GB News \u201cshow significant increases in the number of 999 calls from people concerned after taking abortion pills\u201d. According to\u00a0GB News<\/a>, South East Coast Ambulance Service saw a 34% increase in 999 calls \u201cfrom people concerned after taking abortion pills\u201d from 2019 to 2020.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0similar FOI<\/a>\u00a0in Wales submitted by Darren Millar, Member of the Senedd for Clwyd West, revealed that ambulance call-outs to women who had completed a medical abortion at home had doubled since the change in regulations allowing both sets of pills to be taken at home.<\/p>\n

Right To Life UK spokesperson Catherine Robinson said \u201cIt is no surprise that after two years of this DIY home abortion experiment there is strong support from women for ending these dangerous schemes tt. The documented increase in ambulance call-outs is no surprise given the lack of in-person medical assessment, and cases where women have had abortions without their\u00a0consent<\/a>, are, sadly, an entirely predictable outcome of this dangerous legislation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was published at Right to Life UK<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

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(Right to Life UK) A\u00a0new poll\u00a0shows that a majority of women who take a position on where abortion pills should be taken support an end to \u2018DIY\u2019 at-home abortion schemes and want to ensure that abortion pills should only be taken under medical supervision at a clinic. 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