SW News:

Just two years after the expansion of legal abortions up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, 13,709 unborn babies lost their life in Ireland. As per the second Annual Report on the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, 6,577 abortions were carried out in Ireland in 2020, and another 194 Irish women underwent abortions in England and Wales. 

In 2018, Ireland passed a referendum, repealing the right to life of the unborn enshrined in the Eight Amendment of the Irish Constitution. The Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act came into effect on 1 January 2019. The Act legalized abortion up to 12 weeks of pregnancy and beyond in case of risk to the life of the fetus or serious harm to the mother’s health. 

As per the 29 June report, abortions for Irish-resident women in England, Wales had reported an increase of 131% from 2018 to 2020. That is,  2,911 unborn babies were aborted in England and Wales in 2018, and 6,735 unborn babies lost their lives in 2020. 

Until 2018, the Eighth Amendment of the Irish constitution valued the life of the unborn equal to the mother’s life. Commenting on the statistics, Eilís Mulroy of the Pro-Life Campaign said that the devastating abortion figures are the opposite to the government repeatedly promising that abortions would be ‘rare’ if people voted for repeal.” She also referred to a recent study that reported that late-term abortion survivors under Ireland’s new law were left to die without receiving any palliative or medical care.