Angela Simmons, 39, is one of around 50 women each year in the United Kingdom to have notched up her seventh abortion. She insists she does not regret any of her actions, "Looking back, there was a definitive reason why I had each termination and a valid reason why I felt at the time I could not even have begun to contemplate continuing with each of the pregnancies." Many, of course, will find such a flimsy justification hard to accept - especially seven times over. Perhaps the most astonishing revelation of all is Angela's insistence: "I do not really regret any of my abortions."
Or the admission that she also came close to aborting her son Ben and changed her mind only when her then partner, Patrick, begged her not to go through with it. Certainly, it doesn't come as much of a surprise that her relationship with Ben's father broke up six years ago amid bitter recrimination over the two additional abortions she had against Patrick's wishes. Angela's grim story is not unique. This week's figures released by Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo reveal how many modern women are using abortion, not as a last resort, but almost as a form of contraception.
Statistics show that last year 1,300 British women had at least their fifth abortion.
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