Pro-choice organisation calls for abortion legisaltion

The Alliance for Choice has called for abortion to be legalised in Ireland following the publication of statistics from the UK Department of Health which show that 15 Irish women every day travel to Britain to have an abortion.

The Alliance for Choice has called for abortion to be legalised in Ireland following the publication of statistics from the UK Department of Health which show that an average of 15 Irish women per day travel to Britain to have an abortion.

The total figure for 2005 is 5,585 women. The figure is a decrease of 632 women compared to figures for 2004.