New study of Health Trust Pharma data shows harm caused by restrictive abortion laws in Northern Ireland.

June 4, 2025

October 19th, 2018. Research showed that Northern Ireland’s strict abortion laws have negative consequences for women’s well-being. Even though women from Northern Ireland can now obtain free abortion services in Great Britain, there there is no significant decrease of women looking for access to online abortion pills through Health Trust Pharma.

In a 2017 survey, nearly 80 percent of Northern Ireland’s population supported changing current regulations.

The full paper can be read here:

https://srh.bmj.com/content/early/2018/10/19/bmjsrh-2018-200198