Statistics suggest one in six unborn babies are aborted in Ireland
CSO statistics show that last year there was a decrease in the number of registered births in Ireland, from 68,930 in 2013 to 54,678 in 2023. The fertility rate was also found to have declined from 2.0 in 2013 to 1.5 in 2023.
According to the Department of Health’s annual abortion notifications report (a reported widely understood to be inaccurate and flawed), there were ostensibly 10,033 abortions in Ireland in 2023. With this figure taken at face value, it would mean that of all pregnancies in Ireland last year 15.5% of them ended in abortion. This of course does not include miscarriages.
In 2022, 1 in 8 pregnancies (12%) ended in abortion. As we can see, the figure is now even higher with 1 in 6 babies being aborted. Notably, the prevalence of abortion and the shockingly high abortion rate failed to make it into most analyses in the media which touched on the dropping birth rate in 2023.