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Do early medical abortions fail 6% of the time?
22 November 2023
On 19 October, Pro-Life campaigner Kevin Duffy claimed on social media: “[The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists] wants women to know there’s a 1-in-17

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Does easier access to abortion and contraception lead to an increase in domestic abuse and sexual violence?
22 September 2023
On 7 June on BBC Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ulster programme, Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown claimed: “The problem is that we find as abortion

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Does Northern Ireland support abortion?
3 November 2022
UPDATE: This fact check was amended on 7 November 2022 to include additional information, specifically  details about the NIO’s 2019 consultation on the expansion of

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COVID-19 vaccines and aborted fetuses
27 July 2021
UPDATE: This article was updated on 27 July 2021, in response to a query about whether an mRNA vaccine by CureVac uses fetal cell lines

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Pregnancies and abortion in Northern Ireland
27 November 2020
In 2019, available figures estimate that 4.4% of pregnancies of Northern Ireland residents ended in abortion. This compares to an estimated 24% of pregnancies in

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Are 2% of pregnancy terminations between 20 and 24 weeks?
15 November 2019
This claim is accurate. In 2018, 1.8% of all abortions in Great Britain took place at gestations of 20 weeks and over; 1.7% of all

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Accessing abortion services in Northern Ireland
11 October 2019
by Dr Orna YOUNG for FactCheckNI (11 October 2019) There have been changes in the accessibility of abortion services in Northern Ireland. In this article,

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Did 20,000 people participate in an anti-abortion march in Belfast?
23 September 2019
The figure provided by the event organiser cannot be substantiated. However, the accompanying rally event at Custom House Square could not have been attended by

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Full Fact: How many women leave Northern Ireland to have an abortion in Britain?
16 October 2017
This claim is not accurate. 3,265 women living in Ireland came to England and Wales for an abortion in 2016. 43 refers to the reported