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Fewer abortions

Thursday 22 July 1993 23:02 BST
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The yearly total of abortions in England and Wales fell in 1991 for the first time since 1983, the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys disclosed. A total of 179,522 terminations were carried out, compared with 186,912 in 1990.

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