We are in grave danger of legislating out of existence one of the few safeguards that we have in our abortion legislation
They called on the media to examine and investigate the numbers and to call the government to account.Â
‘Vile’
Eradication of a whole community Â
Patient information leaked?Â
“We need to rethink this cruel regime.”
“13,243 abortions is not rare”
The Department of Health has reported that 6,577 abortions took place in 2020, a figure almost equivalent to the 6,666 abortions which took place in 2019, the first year of the new abortion regime. Pro-life organisation, the Life Institute, said that the “deeply saddening” scale of abortions taking place showed that the procedure was “anything […]
A member of the Together for Yes campaign which worked to repeal the 8th amendment has been criticised for saying that the 6,666 abortions that took place in Ireland in 2019 were “6,666 small victories”. Bernie Linnane, a spokesperson for Leitrim Together for yes, yesterday posted that ‘repealers’ should be ‘celebrating’ the number of abortions which took place, […]
New figures released from the British Department of Health show that abortion rate in England and Wales is at its highest since the 1967 Act was introduced. There were 207,384 abortions for women resident in England and Wales, and 98% of abortions were carried out under ground C, considered social abortions. Most of the abortions […]
Aontú leader, Peadar TóibÃn has said that 10,000 extra abortions have taken place because of the repeal of the 8th amendment – and that the government had refused any proposals to make the legislation “even more marginally humane” in recent formation talks. The Southern Taskgroup on Abortion and Reproductive Topics an organisation claiming to represent […]