Last year close to 15,900 terminations were carried out, which is 2,139 fewer than in 2008 when voluntary terminations became legal.

Around a third of abortions are done in private clinics.

Pregnancies up to ten weeks can be terminated voluntarily in Portugal, without clinical or criminal reasons, following the law introduced in 2008.

The number of interventions carried out every year has been dropping since 2012.