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6,577 Women Accessed Abortion Services In Ireland In 2020.

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4% gave addresses in Co. Kildare.

More than 6,570 women accessed abortion services in 2020, marking a drop of 1 per cent on the previous year.

The overwhelming majority of these terminations were carried out on women who were in the early stages of their pregnancy.

4% of women gave their addresses as Kildare.

The Department of Health says 36 women from Northern Ireland traveled here to have an abortion last year.

Helen Stonehouse, from the Abortion Rights Campaign, says the figures make it clear that abortion is an essential health service:

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