Sex selection of babies for non-medical reasons is set to be outlawed in the U.K. under government plans for a shake-up of embryology regulation.

Health Minister Caroline Flint reportedly told Parliament she intends to introduce a "clear and specific ban" on the use of new techniques to choose one gender of baby, warning that allowing parents to pick sex for reasons such as "balancing" the make-up of their family could be the start of a "slippery slope" to designer babies

London, England (AHN)-Abortions have reached record levels in the U.K., and nearly a third of women who have an abortion have had one or more before. Department of Health statistics reveal that abortions in England and Wales rose by more than 700 in 2005, from 185,713 in 2004 to 186,416.

According to the statistics, more than 1,000 girls under 15 had an abortion, an increase of 4.7 percent in a year. Meanwhile, some 31 percent of women had one or more previous abortions, a figure that rises to 43 percent among black British women

A six-year-old program is beginning to see the results it has tried to achieve all along-getting more pregnant teens the care they need without missing class.

According to CNN reports, the 33-foot-vehicle that travels to schools in Garland, Texas to provide on-site prenatal and postpartum care to teens has encouraged teens to get the care they need early on in their pregnancies

According to David Landry of the Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit group that researches reproductive health, a mobile clinic is just one of the ways of helping teen mothers in Texas. The state has the fifth highest rate of teen pregnancy in the nation.

The mobile clinic is 33-foot vehicle which transports health care to high schools in Garland, a suburb in Dallas, bringing doctors and nurses to teen mothers and their babies

According to new figures out of Britain, the use of an abortion pill, that has been linked to 10 deaths, has more than doubled in the past two years.

Statistics reveal over 10,000 women in the UK took the pill at Bpas clinics last year