NI Charity Will Have To Stop Helping People Access Abortion, Unless It Gets More Money.

Tuesday, 22 June 2021 09:19

Informing Choices NI says its funds will run out in October.

A charity in Northern Ireland says it may have to stop helping women access abortion services if it doesn't get more funding.

Informing Choices NI has helped more than 2,200 women get a medical abortion since it was decriminalised in 2019.

But it says cash will dry up in October.

Some individual health trusts have been providing abortions in Northern Ireland but it hasn't been centralised because of disagreements in the Stormont Executive.

1/3 It is with deep reluctance we are announcing the withdrawal of the central access point into early medical abortion services if funding is not in place by 1 Oct.

SoS @BrandonLewis @NIOgov must urgently intervene to sustain services.

Full statement below: pic.twitter.com/r5XFu6l1tb
— Informing Choices NI (@ICNI2019) June 22, 2021

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