Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 17 May 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings

10:20 am

Dr. Tony Holohan:

I am certainly not going to put a percentage on it. It is a real and substantial risk. Doctors would evaluate that risk and it would be upheld in the eyes of their peers if there were to be an examination of that particular decision. If a doctor is making a clinical decision, as is the case with any other aspect of medical practice, he or she must make it in such a way that the decision, the care, the interventions and so on are likely to meet a standard that would be upheld by their peers. I do not think we want to put a precise numerical definition on it. I do not think the Deputy would be surprised for me to say that.

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