by Maria Maynes, Gript
A leading pro-life group has said that the revelation that more than 50,000 abortions had taken place in Ireland by the end of February was both “horrifying” and a “direct result of the relentless push to focus on abortion as a first solution”, adding that women and babies were being “utterly failed” by the state.
The Life Institute was reacting to information released to Carol Nolan TD by the HSE which showed that at least 10,441 abortions had been carried out in 2024 – while an additional 1,742 abortions took place in January and February of 2025.
Deputy Nolan said that the new figures confirmed that the numbers of abortions that had taken place had exceeded 50,000, and that successive governments had broken promises made in the 2018 referendum that abortion would be “rare”.