Dr. Peter Boylan:

I also have personal experience as a junior doctor of a woman who died during pregnancy because she had a conscientious objection to termination of pregnancy. She was so desperate to give birth to a child that she did and then she died. That happens too and we, obviously, respected her wish.

There was a question to the effect that suicide was death and so was abortion and an implication that the problem could be averted by investment. That is incorrect. If the mother dies, the baby dies. We are talking about the preservation of life. This is a preservation of life Bill. We are talking about the preservation of the life of the mother and if the mother dies, so too does the baby.