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LONDON, March 9 (UPI) -- Britain set a record for the highest number of late abortions in a year by women who were a minimum of 20 weeks into their pregnancies, a report said.
The nearly 3,000 abortions performed on women who were a minimum of 20 weeks pregnant represents a 44 percent increase in less than 10 years, The Sunday Telegraph reported.
Most of the late abortions were for "lifestyle" reasons and fewer than 25 percent were due to potential handicap risks in children, annual reports of England and Wales said.
"Sometimes it is about women who are living very out-of-control lives, often with alcohol or drug problems, and sometimes it's about women whose lives have suddenly changed, whose guy has suddenly left them, so that a wanted pregnancy becomes unwanted," British Pregnancy Advisory Service Chief Executive Ann Furedi said.
Experts reportedly said the increased number of late abortions is due to insufficient sex education programs.
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