Paul Bradford (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to direct my questions to the female members of the panel this morning. Over the past several days, a certain word has taken on a degree of currency. It has been suggested - perhaps alleged - that questioning the whole psychiatric issue and numbers using the suicide clause as an argument for abortion is an insult to women.

Is it an insult to women? Are our current restrictions on abortion an insult to women? Are women in countries, such as Britain, China and India, where there is a much more liberal abortion regime, somehow held in higher esteem or higher regard. On this concept of something being an insult to women, are our abortion laws an insult to Irish women?