A nationwide pro-life billboard campaign has been launched to ask people to rethink our abortion law as the legislation is subjected to the first review since its introduction in January 2019.

“We’re bringing public attention to the disturbing rise in the number of abortions – 13,243 in just two years, despite assurances from Leo Varadkar that it would be ‘rare'”, the Life Institute said. The billboards from the Iona Institute say: “The 8th amendment saved lives”.

The Life Institute billboards are central to a campaign urging both TDs and the public to examine the surge in abortion and the other negative outcomes that have accompanied the new regime.

Pro-life groups say the review of the 2018 legislation is in danger of being a “whitewash designed to ignore the reality of abortion which would be disturbing to many – including many Yes voters.”

The billboards are running in Dublin, Cork, Galway and elsewhere in the country through the middle of October, and others are being planned by the Life Institute over the coming months.