{"id":326134,"date":"2025-02-10T18:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T00:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=326134"},"modified":"2025-02-10T08:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:09:16","slug":"northern-ireland-shocking-rise-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/northern-ireland-shocking-rise-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland report shows ‘shocking’ rise in abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Data released<\/a> from the Northern Ireland Department of Health (DOH) on January 30 shows that the number of abortions in the country has risen for the fourth year in a row.<\/p>\n

Abortion in Northern Ireland was decriminalized in 2020, and preborn children can now legally be aborted until 24 weeks gestation \u2014 and even later under certain circumstances. According to the DOH’s latest report, 2,792 preborn children were killed in 2023\/2024. This is up from the 2,168 aborted in 2022\/2023 and is a 77% increase from the 1,574 committed in the first reporting year of 2020\/2021. In total 8,241 abortions have been carried out since abortion was decriminalized in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

The statistics also show that 72 abortions were committed on women under 18, 2,118 were committed on women aged 18 \u2013 34 years, and 567 were committed on women aged 35 years and over. The vast majority<\/a> of abortions were committed via the abortion pill; 198 surgical abortions were committed.<\/p>\n