Just prior to the Dáil summer recess, Deputy Michael Collins of Independent Ireland raised Ireland’s soaring abortion numbers in the Oireachtas, referring in particular to the 10,852 abortions that took place in 2024.
Addressing the Minister for Health, Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill directly, Deputy Collins said: “The promise made during the 2018 referendum that abortion would be safe, legal and rare has well and truly been broken. The figure of 10,852 is the highest number of abortions we have ever seen. In my county of Cork, 957 babies lost their lives by abortion last year. The Government must think seriously about offering women with unplanned pregnancies greater supports and clearly-signposted alternatives to abortion. No woman should ever feel she has no option but to have an abortion.”
Despite the clear reluctance among many in the media and political spheres to discuss the recent rise in abortion numbers, the message has reached a far wider audience than the political establishment might have preferred – thanks to the dedicated efforts of groups like ours, as well as the contributions of dedicated members of the Oireachtas, and the strong reaction it sparked on social media.
People should be most concerned about the legalised murder,politely called abortion,of future generations committed on our doorsteps all over the country..and have laws supporting the greatest human right abuse abolished straight away!
Hopefully more politicians will have the courage to speak out too and question how we as a society have accepted that it’s ok to end the future of so many innocent babies without emotion and at the same time we can have such justified sympathy for parents who lose a baby to miscarriage . Is it a a loss of a life then , but not in an abortion ????
Hi Frances, thank you for your query. Yes a miscarriage is a loss of life however an abortion is the intentional termination of a life.