A record number of women in England and Wales are choosing to abort one of their babies when pregnant with twins or triplets.
According to the latest statistics, published Tuesday, 141 women chose so-called ‘selective reduction’ abortions in 2016, a near-100 per cent increase in the space of just five years.
Of those 141 cases, 92 involved aborting one twin, 33 involved aborting one triplet, and 11 involved aborting two triplets. There were also five cases of quadruplets where at least one baby was aborted.
