Tue Oct 26, 2021 – 9:04 pm EDTTue Oct 26, 2021 – 1:05 pm EDT
(Live Action) – A pro-life billboard campaign urging people to #RethinkAbortion is alerting the public in Ireland to startling statistics on abortion in the three years since its legalization. Life Institute and Iona Institute, two Irish pro-life organizations, have placed billboards throughout the country to raise awareness as the country’s legislature undertakes a three year review of the 2018 law that allows abortion for any reason up through 12 weeks gestation.
The #RethinkAbortion campaign is specifically drawing attention to the broken promises made by abortion advocates, who claimed that abortion would remain rare in Ireland. The statistics from 2019 and 2020 prove that abortions are far from rare.
According to the Life Institute, the 6,666 abortions committed in 2019 were “more than double the number of abortions which had been carried out on 2,879 women who travelled to Britain for the procedure in 2018,” and “An unknown number of women, estimated by some at 1,000 or more, also took abortion pills in 2018.”
The occurrence of late-term abortions, as well as the case of a baby boy tragically aborted after his parents were mistakenly told that he had Trisomy 18, all further belie
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