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Drunken one-night stands over New Year will bring a record number of abortions among teenagers.
A lethal mix of binge drinking and unprotected casual sex will also mean a sharp increase in sexually-transmitted diseases.
The warning from the Marie Stopes International organisation, which carries out around one in three UK abortions, comes as Ministers admit their £138million drive to reduce teenage pregnancies is failing. Scroll down for more...
Binge drinking fears: A lethal mix of binge drinking and unprotected casual sex will bring about a record spate of unwanted pregnancies say experts. Posed by models
A target of halving the rate by 2010 now looks well out of reach.
There are fears that some girls see a termination as just another form of contraception.
Abortion in Britain has already reached record levels, with more than 200,000 each year. Nearly one in five are on girls under 18.
Labour's liberal licensing laws, which made alcohol widely available into the early hours, are further fuelling casual sex.
The Marie Stopes group said it carried out 6,000 abortions last February, the peak month for young women who become pregnant over Christmas and New Year.
The figure was 13 per cent up on 2006, and a similar increase is expected this year.
Spokesman Steve Kerridge said: "When alcohol is involved inhibitions come down. It's not just unplanned pregnancies but rampant rates of sexually transmitted infections. It's very difficult to get that message out there. Scroll down for more...
Legacy: Labour's liberal licensing laws, which made alcohol widely available into the early hours, are further fuelling casual sex
"Many women tell us that they have used a condom, but mistakes happen, particularly when alcohol is involved."
Leading doctors said the organisation was right. Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said: "Binge drinking is a matter for both sexes but sadly it is the women that end up holding the baby - or having the abortion,"
"Binge drinking in young women is one of the biggest health risks. But the worst dangers are not long-term liver disease but accidents and sexual accidents including unwanted pregnancy, rape and sexually transmitted diseases."
"We need to get the message through that getting drunk isn't cool and it makes young women extremely vulnerable."
Victoria Gillick, a campaigner with the Life anti-abortion group said: "What's happening here is a massacre of the innocents. As a pregnancy counsellor you find a lot of people coming for pregnancy tests in late January and February.
"It's clearly Christmas spirits and alcohol taking away inhibitions."
The Marie Stopes group has launched a £15 "festive family planning" pack at its clinics containing a morning-after pill, two condoms, two "spikeys" - luminous plastic lids to stop drinks being spiked - and a sexual health guide.
The fresh admission of difficulties with the Government's Teenage Pregnancy Strategy came in a Health Department document which said "progress needs to accelerate".
The original aim was to halve the rate of under-18 pregnancies between 1998 and 2010.
But the cut has so far been only 11.4 per cent - and critics say even that is misleading because 1998 was a year with an unusually high rate of teen pregnancies.
The number of youngsters becoming pregnant has actually risen, despite the fall in the rate, because there are now more teenage girls.
Ministers have promised to review the policy and have called for greater efforts by parents to prevent their daughters becoming pregnant.
But there has as yet been no change to the main tactic of trying to teach teenagers that sex can lead to pregnancy and disease and to persuade them to use contraception.
Critics say the Government's approach simply encourages teenagers to engage freely in sex.
Jim Dobbin, Labour MP for Heywood and Middleton, said: "For there to be a perceived increase in abortion at this time of year, it has to be drink or drug related.
"But it's not just drink. The government's sexual education programme isn't working and hasn't been working for a long time.
"I think it backfires by encouraging youngsters to take part in sexual activity, rather than discourage them.
"There really needs to be a move back to instil in youngsters a feeling of restraint, and to think before they have sex.
"They need to respect their boyfriends and girlfriends and try to encourage them not to have sex outside marriage."
The number of abortions has risen steadily every year since it was legalised in 1968. Just 23,641 abortions were carried out in that year.
In 2006, the most recent year for which figures are available, there were 201,173, up from 194,353 the previous year. Girls under 19 were the age group most likely to have an abortion - with 35 under-19s out of every 1,000 having an abortion.
Drunken one-night stands over New Year will bring a record number of abortions among teenagers.
A lethal mix of binge drinking and unprotected casual sex will also mean a sharp increase in sexually-transmitted diseases.
The warning from the Marie Stopes International organisation, which carries out around one in three UK abortions, comes as Ministers admit their £138million drive to reduce teenage pregnancies is failing. Scroll down for more...
A target of halving the rate by 2010 now looks well out of reach.
There are fears that some girls see a termination as just another form of contraception.
Abortion in Britain has already reached record levels, with more than 200,000 each year. Nearly one in five are on girls under 18.
Labour's liberal licensing laws, which made alcohol widely available into the early hours, are further fuelling casual sex.
The Marie Stopes group said it carried out 6,000 abortions last February, the peak month for young women who become pregnant over Christmas and New Year.
The figure was 13 per cent up on 2006, and a similar increase is expected this year.
Spokesman Steve Kerridge said: "When alcohol is involved inhibitions come down. It's not just unplanned pregnancies but rampant rates of sexually transmitted infections. It's very difficult to get that message out there. Scroll down for more...
"Many women tell us that they have used a condom, but mistakes happen, particularly when alcohol is involved."
Leading doctors said the organisation was right. Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said: "Binge drinking is a matter for both sexes but sadly it is the women that end up holding the baby - or having the abortion,"
"Binge drinking in young women is one of the biggest health risks. But the worst dangers are not long-term liver disease but accidents and sexual accidents including unwanted pregnancy, rape and sexually transmitted diseases."
"We need to get the message through that getting drunk isn't cool and it makes young women extremely vulnerable."
Victoria Gillick, a campaigner with the Life anti-abortion group said: "What's happening here is a massacre of the innocents. As a pregnancy counsellor you find a lot of people coming for pregnancy tests in late January and February.
"It's clearly Christmas spirits and alcohol taking away inhibitions."
The Marie Stopes group has launched a £15 "festive family planning" pack at its clinics containing a morning-after pill, two condoms, two "spikeys" - luminous plastic lids to stop drinks being spiked - and a sexual health guide.
The fresh admission of difficulties with the Government's Teenage Pregnancy Strategy came in a Health Department document which said "progress needs to accelerate".
The original aim was to halve the rate of under-18 pregnancies between 1998 and 2010.
But the cut has so far been only 11.4 per cent - and critics say even that is misleading because 1998 was a year with an unusually high rate of teen pregnancies.
The number of youngsters becoming pregnant has actually risen, despite the fall in the rate, because there are now more teenage girls.
Ministers have promised to review the policy and have called for greater efforts by parents to prevent their daughters becoming pregnant.
But there has as yet been no change to the main tactic of trying to teach teenagers that sex can lead to pregnancy and disease and to persuade them to use contraception.
Critics say the Government's approach simply encourages teenagers to engage freely in sex.
Jim Dobbin, Labour MP for Heywood and Middleton, said: "For there to be a perceived increase in abortion at this time of year, it has to be drink or drug related.
"But it's not just drink. The government's sexual education programme isn't working and hasn't been working for a long time.
"I think it backfires by encouraging youngsters to take part in sexual activity, rather than discourage them.
"There really needs to be a move back to instil in youngsters a feeling of restraint, and to think before they have sex.
"They need to respect their boyfriends and girlfriends and try to encourage them not to have sex outside marriage."
The number of abortions has risen steadily every year since it was legalised in 1968. Just 23,641 abortions were carried out in that year.
In 2006, the most recent year for which figures are available, there were 201,173, up from 194,353 the previous year. Girls under 19 were the age group most likely to have an abortion - with 35 under-19s out of every 1,000 having an abortion.
