We Remember Them 2025
Commemorating the babies lost to abortion
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We gathered at the Dáil to remember the 50,000 babies who have been killed by abortion since 2019. Ar dheis lámh Dé go raibh a n-anamacha dílis.
Every life ended was unique and irreplaceable. It is shocking to recall that the government, eager to push through repeal, promised voters that abortion would be "rare".
50,000 abortions in just over 6 years is anything but rare. It is a heartbreaking, devastating total: a reflection of an abortion rate that has spiralled to more than 10,000 lives ended each year.
It's more than the population of Drogheda, all wiped out before they had a chance to draw breath. 50,000 children would fill almost 100 average secondary schools: would overflow Páirc Uí Chaoimh, would fill the Aviva Stadium, would crowd out the Point for 4 nights with excess, is more than the population of Leitrim or Longford.
Ireland is aborting our future. We are destroying what is best of our nation - of every nation - our protection of the next generation.
So we gathered at the Dáil - where TDs voted in favour of making abortion legal, of stripping unborn babies of their right to life - to remember them. Because we will rebuild a culture of life by keeping the path lit, by standing for life, by showing this government that this travesty will not be swept under the carpet, and will not be ignored.
50,000 abortions confirmed
The heartbreaking total of 50,000 abortions was confirmed by information released to Carol Nolan TD by the HSE which showed that at least 10,441 abortions had been carried out in 2024 – while an additional 1,742 abortions took place in January and February of 2025.
Deputy Nolan said that the new figures confirmed that the numbers of abortions that had taken place since 2019 had exceeded 50,000, and that successive governments had broken promises made in the 2018 referendum that abortion would be “rare”.
2019: 6,666
2020: 6,577
2021: 6,700
2022: 8,156
2023: 10,033
2024: 10,441
Jan/Feb 2025: 1,742
TOTAL: 50,315
Life Institute’s Sandra Parda said that the figures showed that the “profoundly disturbing” trend of a “spiralling abortion rate” was continuing year on year. “Less than 3,000 women travelled to Britain for an abortion in 2018, with perhaps another 1,000 taking abortion pills, so seeing more than 10,000 abortions in one year shows the rate has more than doubled, yet all we hear from the government and the taxpayer-funded pro-abortion NGOs is talk of trying to make abortion even more accessible,” she said.
“We are literally aborting our future, yet most of our TDs are too small-minded and too petty to take any action that might tackle our soaring abortion rate,” she added. “Like the rest of the world we are facing a collapse in births, and aborting 10,000 babies a year is making that stark reality even worse, yet our ideology-addled TDs in government and in large part of the Opposition are just digging their heads into the sand and wondering if we can make it even easier to get abortions – which will just hike the already appalling rate up further again.”
She said that the natural outcome of the “current fixation on abortion as the primary solution to women in crisis” would “lead to a situation where pro-life families would become in the majority again sooner than anyone might have envisaged in 2018,” but that “women and unborn babies are paying for the social crisis we are seeing reflected in these figures with their lives and their wellbeing.”
“The government is failing women and failing babies and they need to be held accountable,” she added.
Carol Nolan said that successive governments had failed to acknowledge the soaring abortion rate – and added that: ‘Women who regret abortion are ignored. Harms caused are minimised and a society is gaslighted if it dares to question the trajectory of a policy that cheerleads abortion as empowerment.”
‘This has created a silent ruthlessness that is actively harming women while ending the lives of their children,” she said.
“The silence of all those who offered guarantees to voters in 2018 is deafening. It is an abdication of political accountability and engagement that is quite frankly monstrous. Where is the cheering crowd of supporters and their political allies who ushered in this era of mass death? The cowardice is contemptible,” she added.
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