For years, it was dismissed as a ‘conspiracy theory’ or a statistical impossibility. But new data from the UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has finally brought a dark reality to light: sex-selective abortion is occurring in the UK.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there is estimated to be around 73 million induced abortions annually worldwide. This estimate corresponds to approximately 200,000 abortions per day. This would make abortion a leading cause of global deaths in 2025, as it would outnumber other causes of death by a wide margin. In 2025, cancer accounted for an estimated 10 million deaths, smoking-related illnesses for 6.2 million, infectious diseases for 17 million, and HIV/AIDS for about 2 million.

The Abortion Services Annual Report 2025 was quietly released last week and signals a massive jump in abortions from 13,246 in 2020 to almost 18,000 each year.  This is a disturbing trend with the number of abortions increasing 34% since abortion was decriminalised

Earlier this week Family First published government data showing that at least one child a month on average is surviving an abortion. A born-alive abortion. But despite their previous obsession with the overturning of Roe v Wade (they normally refer to abortion as an ‘imported culture war’), the media have gone deathly silent on this issue. In this episode, we deal with some of the myths that are being used to minimise the tragedy of what is happening to our most vulnerable children, and how the politicians shut down this debate in 2020 as they ushered in one of the most radical abortion laws in the world.

Bob McCoskrie and Simon O’Connor discuss the revelations today that according to official government data, every month on average an unborn child is surviving an attempted abortion but is not being given life-sustaining treatment. These shocking numbers may be well underestimated because some districts couldn’t or wouldn’t provide the data. A 2023 study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that the overall risk of live birth following a second-trimester abortion (15-29 weeks) was 11.2%, with the risk increasing with gestational age.

Family First says that according to official government data, every month on average an unborn child is surviving an attempted abortion but is not being given life-sustaining treatment.

In some good news, large wholesale retailer Costco in the United States has decided it will not supply the abortion drug, mifepristone.

MEDIA RELEASE – 2 May 2025Family First is calling on the Ministry of Health, Health New Zealand and Medsafe to respond to significant new research coming out of the United States that shows that almost one in nine women have serious adverse events after taking the abortion pill, mifepristone. “The sheer scale of adverse events impacting women…

Data from the Ministry of Health reveals that the number of abortions have increased by 30% since abortion was decriminalised in 2020. On average, 329 children are killed every week in the womb in New Zealand, or 47 per day.

Abort your baby late-term and also get around $4600 from the government.  We are not making this up.  This is precisely what is happening in South Australia.

The media reported a tragic case of a pregnant Georgia woman who was brain dead but was kept on life support to give birth – but the media screamed that it shows how bad abortion bans are. As expected, the media is pushing a false narrative. We do a fact-check.

Abortion survivor, Melissa Ohden, joins Family First’s Simon O’Connor to talk about all the recent developments in the pro life space in the United States. Melissa talks about her advocacy on behalf of abortion survivors, and the challenges she is currently facing with Members of the House of Representatives. She also talks to Simon about…