Almost 150 Irish minors travelled to UK for abortions in 2011

When I was growing up contraception was all we needed to stop unwanted pregnancies.Seems that 4,149 females a year don't even know how to use contraception.I always knew that would be the case."Sexual Health Awareness Week".Like that's going to work!!The words are almost calming.For teenagers fear is good.They should have A "I'll break your Gonads if you get her Pregnant~Week" That's a good one for teenage boys. Or A "Don't be a Slapper use a Wrapper~Week.That's a good one for teenage girls.

Contraceptin is widely available in post-Catholoic Ireland. Why didn't they use such. Ultimately, the best form of contraception is abstention, an option very often unpromoted in contraception promoting outlets. Sexual morality is debased in neo-liberal Ireland.

Antoinette Kelly, I'm sure you know that no physician would try to 'abort' a pregnancy as far advanced as the pregnancy in your photograph unless the pregnant woman were in imminent danger of death or the fetus dead. Why would you place such a misleading photo with an article about abortion statistics?

Agree with Bobby. Ireland should look after it's own with provision of medical and counseling services, there is clearly a need. Providing exemptions of course to medical staff who refuse to perform such procedures on religious grounds.

It costs around €600 to have an abortion in the UK.

And many thousands more women give a UK address or none at all, also alot of women go to Holland and France to have an abortion, these women are not recorded. These women should receive help in Ireland, its shameful.

They are the numbers they know of.