{"id":533835,"date":"2026-07-05T07:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533835\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:06:16","slug":"over-950-abortions-in-kerry-in-first-six-years-of-termination-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533835\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 950 abortions in Kerry in first six years of termination services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were 950 abortions in Kerry in the first six years of the provision of termination services in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Provision of termination of pregnancy services commenced in January 2019, and there were 966 terminations carried out for women living in Kerry to the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The HSE yesterday published <a href=\"https:\/\/about.hse.ie\/publications\/termination-of-pregnancy-services-in-ireland-report-2019-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its first report<\/a> on termination of pregnancy, covering the years 2019 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It showed there were 48 terminations in Kerry in 2019, 110 in 2020, and 103 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>There were 189 terminations of pregnancies in Kerry in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/over-250-women-living-in-kerry-had-abortions-in-2023-392411\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">254 in 2023<\/a>, and 262 in 2024, reflecting a mostly year-on-year rise.<\/p>\n<p>The report says there is likely to be a range of factors for these trends, including improved access to termination of pregnancy services, economic pressures, and demographic shifts.<\/p>\n<p>The report says University Hospital Kerry provides medical terminations, but is one of nine maternity units which does not provide planned surgical terminations; it does provide surgical terminations in emergency cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were 950 abortions in Kerry in the first six years of the provision of termination services in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,69378],"class_list":["post-533835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-termination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}