PRESS RELEASE

IRISH GOVERNMENT REPORT ON 10,033 ABORTIONS IT
PERFORMED IN 2023 AT TAX PAYERS EXPENSE

In 2023 there were only 54,418 births and abortions were 18.44% of births. Our reproduction rate just shrunk to 1.5, where the reproduction rate of 2.1 is considered necessary to replace deaths.
Prior to the legalisation of abortion in 2018, abortions had declined steadily since 2001 due to dedicated work of pro-life organisations. These bodies were partly funded by the Government, prior to 2018. Funding now only goes to pro-abortion bodies.

Prior to the legalisation of abortion, there were 2,879 abortions in 2018 then representing 4.6% of births. These abortions took place in England & Wales which, unlike Ireland, gives informative details of women seeking abortion and recorded that 22% were not ethnically Irish. In 2018 there were much less immigrants then than now.

There is a great lack of similar useful information in the Irish Report for example – age of women, marital status, previous abortions, ethnicity et cetera.
Irish residents had 2,879 abortions in England in 2018 when abortion was being legalised in Ireland. It rose at once to 6,666 in 2019, 6,577 in 2020, 6,700 in 2021, 8,156 in 2022 and 10,033 in 2023. The total number of abortions performed in the Republic from 2019 to 2023 is 38,132.

Unborn babies are human beings too one would think?

 

John O’Reilly
Secretary
Second Look Project
Unit 1, 6-7 Marine Road,
Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin