Abortion Resources

Questions on Abortion were asked in 2016 and 2018.
Questions in abortion were asked in the Religious Observance module in 1998 2004 2008

ARK Resources

• Research Update 127 - The Genie is out of the Bottle: Self-managed abortions in Northern Ireland using pills, by Goretti Horgan, looks at the views and experiences of women in Northern Ireland who used pills to self-manage an abortion.
• Do social attitudes to abortion suggest political parties in Northern Ireland are out of step with their supporters? (ARK Feature 5), by Ann Marie Gray, Goretti Horgan and Paula Devine, uses data from the 2016 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• The 2016 Life and Times module on abortion is part of the Buying abortion through the internet: exploring the social harm of criminalising abortion in Northern Ireland and the UK, funded by the ESRC Transformative Research Programme. The survey team comprises Goretti Horgan, Ann Marie Gray and Linda Moore.
• Research Update 115 - Attitudes to abortion in Northern Ireland - by Ann Marie Gray, uses data from the 2016 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.

Links

• In 2016, Department of Health published guidance for health and social care professionals on termination of pregnancy in Northern Ireland.
• The Department of Health has published statistics on the termination of pregnancy in Northern Ireland.
• The Department of Health publishes statistics on abortions within England and Wales, which includes figures for women resident in Northern Ireland
• Abortion Policy - Challenges and Opportunities by Dr Fiona Bloomer (Ulster University) and Dr Lesley Hoggart (Open University) sets out abortion law and policy in Northern Ireland (NI) and analyses demand for abortion services.

Maintained by Paula Devine