According to reports, the figures released by Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE), following a parliamentary question asked by Independent Teachta Dála (Member of Parliament) Mattie McGrath, show that 29 babies were born alive after a failed abortion and subsequently died shortly afterwards in 2023, the most recent year for which data were available. There were 23 deaths of this nature in 2022, 14 deaths in 2021, 25 deaths in 2020, and 17 deaths in 2019; a total of 108 across these five years.
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108 babies born alive then died after failed abortions in Ireland
More than 108 babies have been born alive in failed abortions in Ireland since it introduced the practice. With no legal safeguards, the children were denied basic medical care and left to die
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