Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed)

11:20 am

Photo of Michelle MulherinMichelle Mulherin (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to ask about the composition of the panel. We have heard two extremes. Notwithstanding the profession of psychiatry and all the assurances we got, I am very sure right now I could name one particular type of case where there is not a mental illness involved and there is a pregnant woman who is suicidal, in which two psychiatrists would say completely opposite things where that woman is looking for an abortion.

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