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

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our guests. If I understand correctly, fatal foetal abnormality is not covered by the legislation. Is there any way this Bill could be amended to include the possibility of a termination in the case of a woman who has the misfortune of having a pregnancy where there is no chance of life for the foetus outside the womb? If not, is that because of the 1983 constitutional amendment?

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