Welcome to Pro-Life Trust
The Pro-Life Trust was founded in 1985 to fund legal cases to protect the unborn child. These cases continued for 12 years, until 1997.
Since then, the Trust has continued in various capacities, all actively promoting the pro-life cause.
Our activities include promoting conferences, conducting research, collecting statistics, and arranging and lobbying groups and parties that are helpful in promoting our agenda.
The Trust took a supporting role alongside the Hierarchy and the Vatican in the 2003 referendum.
Our primary and continuing objective is the protection of the life and rights of the unborn child.
In 2015, the Trust applied for and was granted charitable status, which ensures that all our income must be used for charitable purposes, in our case, the promotion of the welfare of the unborn child.
The Trust reports annually to the Revenue Commissioners and the Charities Regulator.
Accordingly, our funds are not used for political purposes, but rather to help small groups or individuals who promote, educate or provide care in support of the welfare of the unborn child.
We disseminate accurate pro-life information to clergy of all faiths, politicians and members of the public. We donate funds to assist in the production of pro-life videos, the organisation of lectures for youth groups, and the provision of necessary assistance to pregnancy advisory services.
We seek to identify private individuals and groups who are actively supporting the pro-life cause and assess whether we can assist them.
We have learned and come to realise that the future does not augur well for the rights of the unborn. The Trust’s values regarding the rights and humanity of the unborn child are at considerable variance with what we regard as a distorted sense of values prevalent in government circles.
While recognising the principle of conscientious objection, such governments actively ignore it in practice and are prepared to defund legitimate agencies and organisations if they do not cooperate in promoting abortion.
The future protection of the rights of the unborn is therefore not assured by the legislature. It is left to dedicated voluntary organisations such as the Pro-Life Trust.
Abortions on Irish Residents 2000 – 2025
The core of our Government has no respect for the rights of conscience or Christian morality.
Exclusive of Irish resident’s abortions in England, the following (Including a few non-residents) have taken place in Ireland at Irish taxpayers expense.
Abortions Performed in Ireland
2019 6,666
2020 6,577
2021 6,700
2022 8,156
2023 10,033
2024 10,852
2025 10,600
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Total 59,584
Press Release
Before the year 2000, due to the work of voluntary organisations, Irish abortions in England had been steadily declining down to 2,879 abortions in 2018 on residents of the Republic, 22% of whom were non ethnically Irish. Most of the women were single, divorced or separated rather than married. In the seven years of Irish abortion provisions the total number of abortions is close to 60,000 and, at present rates could pass a million in 3 to 4 years. According to CSO’s Vital Statistics there were 54,125 births in 2025 and 35,587 deaths giving a population replacement rate of 1.5 where 2.1 is the accepted rate for 100% replacement. According to the Government’s figure of 10,600 abortions in 2025 abortions are 20% of births.
Human life is sacred and deserves the same protection as all other human lives whether ill, deformed or whatever. Hitler and the Nazis advanced the policy of liquidating “useless eaters” first deformed children and adults, later Jews, Slavs and anyone hostile to the Führer. According to CSO the Irish Republic’s total population in early 2026 was 5,535,000. About a million of that is aged 0-14. Between emigration, immigration and returns of both to their own countries it is difficult to be too specific. Yet too many foreigners settling in one country can be a severe threat to its traditions and values. We must express and defend Irish ideals, those of 1916 and earlier.
The 2018 referendum was a deceit. There was no great public demand for abortion. Mr. Varadkar and Mr. Harris used the death of Savita Halappanavar to deceive the public. Both knew that four different medical studies stated that abortion was not the problem. And a leading Indian Gynaecologist said that with the malady which she had abortion would only hasten her death. After her death her parents were brought over from India to go around the country bemoaning her death because of lack of abortion. All this was a great discredit to members of Dail and Senate, a majority of whom also supported Varadkar’s double referendum which was rejected in every constituency except Dun Laoghaire and led to his own resignation. Prior to the 2018 referendum the people were not told that they would be financing abortions or that the Government would force hospitals to look after abortions as well as births. They could easily have confined abortions to one hospital and avoided conscientious difficulties for doctors and nurses and for the women who go there to give birth and are attended by staff who perform abortions. We need more children to guarantee the future of the Irish people and Irish culture.
— John O’Reilly, Secretary
10/9/2026
UN Calls for Worldwide Ban on Surrogacy
As reported by UN Reporter Reem Alsalem, the UN has proposed a global ban on surrogacy in all its forms. It states that the consequences of surrogacy are so grave and harmful and result in large scale violations of the human rights of surrogate mothers and their children that surrogacy as a practice or industry must be abolished.
Ireland passed legislation permitting surrogacy in 2024 but it has not been implemented yet.
The European Parliament and the Vatican condemned surrogacy in 2025. The Ukraine is noted as one of the leading countries in Europe for the practice of surrogacy.