About DfCNI

DFCNI was established in 2019. We are a group of Northern Ireland clinicians campaigning for UK wide decriminalisation and provision of free, safe, legal abortion in Northern Ireland.

Our aims

We aim to:​

• Advocate for women and people who can get pregnant in their right to choose abortion as an essential part of their reproductive healthcare​

• Campaign for access to high-quality abortion services and sexual and reproductive health services.

• Provide evidence-based information on abortion for the public, medical students and healthcare professionals. We also advocate for better education in schools on sexual and reproductive health and relationships.

• Provide support to clinicians on the issue of abortion.

Benefits of membership

Membership costs:

• Consultants and GPs: £50 a year​

• Trainees, midwives, nurses: £25 a year

• Students: £5 a year

​Benefits as part of DfCNI:

• Be part of a regional network of prochoice clinicians

• The opportunity to influence policy and service development at a regional and local level

• Free attendance at Doctors for Choice NI events and workshops

Also includes all the benefits of DFC UK membership:

• Be part of a group of like-minded health professionals who campaign to defend and extend the abortion rights of women across the UK

• The opportunity to undertake training and be involved in 'Education for Choice'

• The chance to join our member working groups on Education, Training & Workforce, and Provision 

• Be involved in influencing law and policy on abortion nationally

• Free attendance at Doctors for Choice UK annual conference and one other Doctors for Choice UK event per year.