The rate of abortion procedures being conducted among fourteen year olds has risen by nearly a quarter in the past two years. The harrowing statistics were revealed by the Department of Health wherein 166 girls belonging to this age underwent medical terminations of pregnancies the previous year as compared to 135 girls during the year 2006. In case of the fifteen year old girls this number shot up to sixteen percent in the span of over 7 years. England’s teen pregnancy statistics are the most undesirable in comparison to the figures noted in the Western Europe and comes in spite of a push of Government-led programmes. In the initial part of the year, it was unearthed that young-aged girls who were on a six million pounds state-backed initiative for curbing pregnancies in poorer teens was unsuccessful and contrarily had majorly raised their likelihood of getting pregnant. The United Kingdom literally tops the chart for having the maximum number of medical terminations of  [...]