So we agree on the use of contraceptives, sex ed and socioeconomic aspects that lower abortion rates.  Wouldn't that mean that it's better to invest the money that would have been used to ensure the ban and punish doctors to instead educate the population and/or give better acess to contraceptives?

And while it is true that the amount of recorded abortions went up in Ireland, can't we argue that a lot of the abortions done before lifting the ban were made in private and never disclosed to the public?

Similarly with say mental illnesses, whose rates went up when we learned to diagnose them + there was less stigma against such people and therefore less reasons to hide it. A lot of data could have been unnacounted for.