Hundreds of women travelled to Britain for abortions from Ireland in 2021 

Amy Dunne, the woman at the centre of the controversial Miss D case in 2007 at a protest outside the Dáil organised by the National Women's Council of Ireland in May to mark the fourth anniversary of Repeal the 8th, calling on Government to address the lack of countrywide abortion services. Picture: Moya Nolan

More than 200 women from the Republic and 161 women from the North travelled to England and Wales to access abortion care in 2021, a report from the British Department of Health and Social Care has revealed. 

The majority of women who travelled from the Republic of Ireland to have abortions were more than 12 weeks' pregnant, making them ineligible for termination services at home. Half were also foetal anomaly cases.