Agency’s concern over high level of secret pregnancies

SOME women are still too ashamed to admit they are pregnant outside of a relationship and conceal the pregnancy right up to the birth in some cases.

The Crisis Pregnancy Agency’s (CPA) annual report shows that one in every 403 births at rural hospitals is kept secret while one in 625 in Dublin is hidden.

In some extreme cases, the woman herself refuses to recognise the fact that she is pregnant up until labour pains force her to go to the hospital.