Abortions Have Almost Doubled in Ireland Since Legalization

A report from Ireland’s Health Service Executive, released Friday, tells us that in 2024 the numbers of abortions had nearly doubled since 2019, the first year abortion was legalized in Ireland.

Tragically, the huge increase from 6,666 to 10,852 comes shortly after the Dáil (the lower house of Parliament) voted to end the three-day waiting period for abortion. All told, the report—“Termination of Pregnancy Services in Ireland Report (2019–2025)”–shows there were 46,861 abortions in Ireland in the six years from 2019 to the end of 2024.

However, “Just one in 10 GPs have signed up to provide medical abortion, and only 10 of the 19 maternity units in the country do planned [surgical] terminations,” Eilish O’Regan reported for the Irish Independent.

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“There has been an incremental increase in the numbers of primary care providers nationally,” according to the report, from 281 to 483, since the “Repeal the 8th Amendment” opened the door to abortion in Ireland.

All 19 maternity units perform chemical abortion while “only” nine routinely perform surgical abortions and “just”  five maternity units offer manual vacuum aspiration

“Cork University Maternity Hospital is one of just four hospitals giving all three options,” the Irish Medical Times reports. “University Hospital Limerick and University Hospital Waterford do not offer surgical terminations yet.”

Naturally, this led pro-abortion groups to complain about a “gap” in “services.

“The report’s claim that abortion is now ‘largely acknowledged as a routine and normal part of healthcare provision’ is a political statement and a revealing one,” said The Pro Life Campaign.

“Any procedure that ends the life of another human being is the furthest thing imaginable from healthcare, regardless of the language used to justify it.

“Calling abortion ‘healthcare’ is deeply misleading and does a grave disservice to women and their unborn babies, and the many doctor and midwives who do their best to protect both lives.”