Monday 7 April 2025
By The Brussels Times with Belga
More than 19,600 abortions were carried out in Belgium in 2023, La Libre reported on Monday.
The figure comes from a biannual report (2022-2023) conducted by 'The National Commission for the Evaluation of the Law on the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy'.
The number of abortions in the past two years has returned to pre-pandemic levels. Approximately 18,000 procedures were recorded in 2018 and 2019, before falling to just over 16,500 in 2020 and 2021. The number then rose again, reaching 18,574 in 2022 and 19,686 in 2023.