According to Ireland’s Prolife Campaign, recent discoveries show that abortionists in Ireland are reimbursed with taxpayer money as much as €20,500 per year, per doctor ($23,878 USD) for killing preborn children, as data shows that abortion rates in the country continue to rise. That’s a total of €430,000, or nearly $506,000 USD, per year.
Key Takeaways:
- Reports show that Irish abortionists receive an average of €20,500 per year ($23,878) — €430,000 ($506,000) annually — of taxpayer funds for committing abortions.
- Recent data also shows that there were a record 10,852 abortions in Ireland in 2024.
The Details:
Prolife Campaign reports that its figures derive from parliamentary questions asked by Deputy Michael Collins. Those questions revealed that for the first five months of 2025, an average of €430,000 (nearly $506,000) per month was paid as reimbursements to general practitioners (GP) for committing abortions. It was then determined that there are an average of 250 GPs committing abortions each month in Ireland, resulting in those abortionists receiving approximately €20,500 ($23,878) per year.
Pro Life Campaign spokesperson Eilís Mulroy noted that not only is this taxpayer funding lucrative for abortionists, but many are raking in these funds by simply prescribing abortion pills.
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“Many people will find it unseemly that abortion has become such a profitable activity, particularly given it’s subsidised by our taxes. Many people in Ireland are making ends meet on an annual salary of €20,500, whereas abortion doctors are getting an average of €20,500 as a top up on their regular income just for offering abortion pills,” Mulroy said. “If there are negative consequences for the woman, the doctor simply refers them to a hospital.”
Mulroy continued:
With the advent of telemedicine, a GP doesn’t even have to have an in-person consultation with the woman. Instead, they can have a short phone call with the woman, make basic provisions for her to collect the mifepristone and misoprostol pills, and claim for €450.
All the money that’s being poured into the Irish abortion regime, which racks up tens of millions of euro, would be better served providing women in unplanned pregnancies with genuine supports.
The Backstory:
This shocking disclosure comes just weeks after the Irish Department of Health released statistics showing that abortion has skyrocketed in the country since a 2018 vote to legalize it.
Data from 2024 shows that there were 10,852 abortions in that year, a 62.8% increase over the 6,666 abortions committed in 2019, when abortions were first legally allowed.
“That’s a truly horrifying figure, and it’s the opposite of what senior politicians promised the public would happen if they voted for repeal in 2018,” Mulroy told Catholic News Agency (CNA).
The nation’s Catholic bishops have also spoken out against the increase, noting that the high numbers and vast support for abortion today are a far cry from the 2018 promises that it would be “rare.”
“[The government] has done nothing to reduce the numbers of abortions … and seems not to care why women choose abortion, or what happens to them afterwards,” Bishop Kevin Doran of Elphin and Achonry told OSV News.
“In a world in which freedom of conscience and the right to peaceful protest are widely promoted and recognized, Irish healthcare professionals are penalized if they refuse to refer their clients for abortion, and citizens risk criminal prosecution if they engage in peaceful protest, even though the Garda Siochana (National Police) said that they did not need this legislation,” he said.
The Bottom Line:
Mulroy told CNA that her organization is talking to politicians about ways to combat the rising abortion rates — and likely, those conversations will include ways that high abortion subsidies can better be used to serve women and families.
“We spend a lot of time talking to politicians — even who might not necessarily be coming from a pro-life perspective, but who might share common ground on some of the issues associated with the abortion question. For example the need for more positive alternatives for women in unplanned pregnancy,” she said.
“We’re talking about human lives here,” she added. “It’s not just like any other area of health care, where we’re trying to reduce waiting lists or other things. This is not health care. This is the ending of human lives…”
