Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Irrespective of there being or not being any legal obligation on us to legislate, and I believe there is, would the witnesses accept there is a moral obligation on us to legislate, given in particular the evidence this committee has received in the last number of days, especially the evidence of the experts in the fields of both psychiatry and obstetrics?

I refer to an earlier question asked by Senator Bacik on the definition of the unborn. Would the witnesses accept that the definition of unborn should be extended to remove a situation where a foetus is clearly unviable or indeed where it is already dead? Would they accept that there is a need to ensure an adequate and effective procedure to access lawful abortion under the ECHR ruling?