Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have a couple of questions. Again, we have heard some very differing opinions about certain ethical and legal realities. In regard to the question of fatal foetal abnormality and those very tragic situations, I wonder whether that debate is not more appropriately categorised as part of a euthanasia debate. Defining the unborn by reference to any future personhood or life that he or she might have seems to miss the point of what the eighth amendment was about, namely, to recognise the right the unborn has in the present. It would seem to me immaterial what the future life of that child should be. It also seems that a dangerous approach is being advocated because there is such uncertainty here. When we talk about foetal abnormality, as Dr. Craven noted-----