2258. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health the specific safeguards in place to prevent drugs used for abortions (mifepristone and misoprostol) being supplied to or obtained by unauthorised people or used for abortions outside the terms of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; whether any regulatory changes have been made in light of evidence of coercive abortion in court cases; …
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2259. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of any incidences where women requested abortion pill reversal treatments after coerced or forced abortion; if the possibility of prescribing progesterone in this circumstance has been examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43459/26]
2169. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 958 of 18 November 2025, which confirmed that at least four babies were born alive after abortion who had reached 24 weeks gestation or 500g birthweight and were not diagnosed with major congenital anomalies, whether these babies received any medical or nursing interventions with the aim of sustaining life, or received onl…
948. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1038 of 20 January 2026, the total number of babies, from 2019-2025, who have been born alive after abortion procedures in cases where no major congenital anomaly was diagnosed; the gestation of the babies in these cases, broken down in categories (less than 16 weeks, 16-21 weeks, 22-27 weeks, 28-31 weeks, 32-36 weeks; 37 o…
639. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health the number of babies born alive after an abortion procedure at 24-weeks' gestation or later; the number of these cases which involved babies diagnosed with major congenital anomalies; the number of babies born alive after abortion earlier than 24-weeks' gestation; the number of them which had been diagnosed with major congenital anomalies, from 2022 to date in …
640. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health the number of abortion cases in which feticide was carried out in each of the years from 2019, to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68012/25]
958. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health to issue a thorough, transparent investigation into the treatment and legal protection of the 79 babies (details supplied) who were born alive but subsequently died in Ireland after abortion procedures between 2019 and 2022; the medical safeguards in place to ensure that the rights of babies born in Ireland after abortion procedures are respected and upheld; if…