A new five year strategy from the Crisis Pregnancy Agency has been launched by the Minister for Health, Mary Harney.
The strategy aims to cut the number of crisis pregnancies and hopes to reduce the price of condoms.
The strategy states that 15% of women experiencing a crisis pregnancy choose to have an abortion.
One in five women in Ireland have experienced a crisis pregnancy and 14% of women who recorded such a pregnancy say they had more than one.
This strategy also claims that three quarters of women choose to give birth and parent the child, 40% of them as lone parents. Adoption is an option chosen by very few women and the numbers travelling to Britain for their abortions is dropping.
The Crisis Pregnancy Agency wants the costs of condoms to be reduced as it says such a move could help reduce the number of crisis pregnancies.
It also aims to delay early sexual activities through a campaign aimed at young people.
15% of women experiencing a crisis pregnancy choose to have an abortion, but in the 18 to 25-year-old category that figure increases to 22%.
Under the strategy, the Positive Options campaign, promoting options for crisis pregnancies is to be extended for a further three years.
