Over 4,400 Irish women travelled to England and Wales for abortions in 2010 - journal.ie article

Published: Tuesday, May 24, 2011

AROUND 12 WOMEN a day travelled from Ireland to England and Wales last year to have terminations, new figures have revealed.

The statistics, published today by the UK's Department of Health, show that women giving Irish addresses accounted for a majority of the abortions requested by non-residents in Wales and England in 2010. Of the 6,535 terminations given to non-residents, 4,402 of those were to women who gave Irish home addresses. That accounts for 67.4 per cent of all the non-resident abortions. It represents a tiny drop - 0.5 per cent - on the figures for 2009.

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