Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 10:

In page 7, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:"(4) Any medical practitioner involved in the treatment of a pregnant woman is obliged, subject to the provisions of this Act and the right to life of that pregnant woman, to safeguard the unborn and, where it is potentially viable outside the womb, to make all reasonable and practicable efforts to sustain its life after delivery.
(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 7, 8, and 9, where, in the reasonable opinion of a medical practitioner, a course of treatment or course of action could reasonably and practicably be offered to the pregnant woman which would avert the real and substantial risk of the loss of the pregnant woman’s life which would not require the carrying out of a medical procedure in the course of which, or as a result of which, an unborn life is ended, they may not conclude that the risk in question can only be averted by carrying out that medical procedure.".

I would like to speak on this amendment.