Abortion: Northern Ireland

(asked on 12th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions on the grounds of disability were carried out on women resident in Northern Ireland in 2016.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 18th July 2017

There were 13 abortions performed for residents of Northern Ireland in England and Wales under Ground E (risk that the child would be born ‘seriously handicapped’) in 2016.

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