The number of women from Northern Ireland choosing to abort their unborn children has dramatically increased [1] since Westminster imposed radical abortion legislation on the six counties last year.
As of June 11, the Department of Health had received 1,624 notifications of abortions, despite the lack of a full and formal commissioning of the law.
A further 371 women travelled to Britain in the 12 months ending March 2021. While that is a decrease from 1,014 who travelled for the procedure over the previous year, the overall figures are far higher.
Abortion figures in the South have also jumped since the introduction of a liberal abortion law, even allowing for the number of Irish women who travelled to England for terminations.