Britain Faces Unprecedented Rise in Unplanned Pregnancies Due to Difficulty in Obtaining Birth Control

The Guardian newspaper reported that Britain is witnessing an unprecedented rise in unplanned pregnancies in women, due to the difficulty in obtaining birth control.

Britain’s Women’s Health Ambassador and gynecologist Leslie Regan said: “Access to contraceptives is becoming more difficult in the country, worse than it was 10 years ago, which has led to an increase in unplanned pregnancies.”

“Changes to the state’s medical system, which began in 2012, have had a negative impact on patients,” Regan added.

And she continued, “Recent studies indicate that 45 percent of pregnancies in the country are unintended, and that one out of every four pregnancies ends in miscarriage at the same time, due to additional appointments for hormone replacement therapy for women. Hormone replacement therapy is a drug that contains female hormones. When taking the drug, it replaces the estrogen hormone that the body stops producing during menopause, so many women refuse to visit doctors.

“Progesterone pills should be sold to women without a prescription,” she said.

British actress and journalist Davina McCall, who directed a film about women’s health, believes that “the current medical system no longer lives up to its status and does not work properly so that four thousand women completed a survey to study it, which led to the conclusion that 77 percent of them experienced side effects after took the prescribed contraceptive pills, and about half of them had to change their regimen.”

Doctors also confirmed that “the Corona epidemic exacerbated the problem of long waiting times to obtain contraceptives, during which time about 6 percent of women lost access to them.”