Demonstrators hold placards and candles in support of legislative change on abortion | AFP/Getty Irish women go public against abortion stigma The X-ile Project estimates 12 Irish women and girls go to Britain for abortions almost every day.

Eleven Irish women who travelled to Britain for abortions are allowing their identity to be made public online to shed light on Ireland’s near-total ban on terminations of pregnancy

These women are the first round of releases as part of the X-ile project, which aims to help those who have "effectively been exiled from Ireland and ignored due to unduly strict abortion laws" by giving them the opportunity to share their photo, name and message as part of the project.

Launched Thursday as part of the international Human Rights Day, the project will be accompanied by a protest outside the gates of Dublin's Trinity College where 12 pro-choice activists will stand in a human chain for 12 minutes.

According to X-ile, 12 is the average number of Irish women and girls who go to Britain for abortions almost every day.

X-ile Project is live! Our immense gratitude to our incredible participants & everyone who helped get us to this point. End the stigma! — X-ileproject (@thexileproject) December 10, 2015

Ruth Morrissy, a founding members of the X-ile Project, told POLITICO that the project aims"to portray women who have been exiled for abortion services as the women that they are — our sisters, our mothers, our friends, our colleagues and our partners, and not just another statistic."

"We aim to display the reality of Irish abortion and to break down the overwhelming stigma around women who travel from Ireland for the purpose of having an abortion."

Current laws on abortion within Ireland vary, with Northern Ireland ruling it "incompatible with human rights." In the Republic of Ireland it is only permitted in extremely limited circumstances.

These circumstances include provisions laid out by the 2013 Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act which allows for abortion when continuing with a pregnancy would result in the mother’s death, or in cases where the woman is suicidal. Despite this, women who are victims of rape — and often suicidal— are still refused abortions in Irish hospitals.

Laws also call for a prison sentence of 14 years for any member of a medical team that carries out a termination outside of the "legal" exceptions.