PROVISIONAL figures indicate that 186,200 unborn children were killed in England and Wales last year, under the terms of the British Abortion Act.

This is the third highest total ever and represents an increase of 0.4 per cent on 2000. Of these abortions, 76 per cent were funded by the National Health Service, up from 74 per cent in 2000.

So, you may need life-saving treatment but we must first spend good NHS money getting rid of perfectly healthy, but unwanted, babies. Why shouldn't these mothers pay and save more NHS cash for treating sick people?

BRENDA E. LYNCH,

(ex-nurse),

Salisbury Road, Radcliffe.