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Question from Deputy Mattie McGrath - PQ 68011-25

Deputy McGrath asked about the number of babies born alive after an abortion procedure from 2022 to 2025. Read the HSE response.


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Summary

To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born alive after an abortion procedure at 24-weeks gestation or later; the number of these cases which involved babies diagnosed with major congenital anomalies; the number of babies born alive after abortion earlier than 24-weeks gestation; the number of them which had been diagnosed with major congenital anomalies, from 2022 to date in 2025, by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.


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