Alliance for Choice Derry

@a4cderry.bsky.social

Activists informed by reproductive justice principles, fighting for abortion across Ireland - with a particular focus on north west & rural areas. www.allianceforchoiceni.org

We had a wonderful evening at the Culture Date with Dublin 8 "Liberation at the Back Lane Parliament" event. Caelainn Hogan generously asked us to provide some collages documenting the history of Alliance for Choice Derry and our Maeve helped put together 12 panels documenting some of our history.

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Yesterday on St. Patrick's Day we were honoured to be invited by Anne Crilly to remember Cecily Jackson on what was 300 years since she was burned to death in a shocking act of misogyny + violence against women. We support the request for a marker or plaque to be put in place to memorialise Cecily.

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Folks, we have had some requests for help with electricity, rent and food for people in need. We need to raise about £350. If you can spare it, please donate to our mutual aid fund and we will distribute money confidentially to those in need of help. Thank you! www.paypal.com/paypalme/all...

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⭐️Our International Women’s Day 2025 programme is here!!! ⭐️ We hope to see as many of you as possible over the week at our special events but especially at the March on Saturday! IWD was founded by radical working class women protesting, organising, educating for their bread and roses too ✊✊🏿🌹 🍞

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Last week, the NI Department of Health published statistical information on the number of medical abortions and terminations of pregnancies at HSC Trusts in Northern Ireland during 2020/21 to 2023/24. For more information on these statistics, read our infographics below!

During 2023/24 there were 2,792 abortions carried out in Northern Ireland, an increase of 28.8% from 2022/23. 

The majority of these abortions were medical (pills), with only 198 surgical abortions performed.This increase is undoubtedly down to embedding of top quality abortion services into our healthcare system. 

However, the punitive cost of living crisis and two-child benefit cap will also have had a huge impact on whether persons or families made the decision to terminate.Abortions were sought in every region of Northern Ireland.

793 in Belfast Trust 
610 in Northern Trust 
558 in South Eastern Trust 
523 in Southern Trust 
308 in Western Trust 

These figures show the necessity of abortion care for all across the north - both urban and rural.The vast majority (93%) of all abortions were carried out under ten weeks gestation. 

72 abortions were carried out on under-18s 
567 abortions were carried out on 35 +
2118 abortions were carried out on 18-34s

Over 24+ weeks gestation still must travel to GB for care. 

We hope that those in need will soon be looked after at home.