Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health
Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed)
2:05 pm
Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source
I confirm my support for this section. I reiterate that we want clarity for the women concerned and for the medical practitioners. I believe that could be enhanced by the inclusion in this section of the judgment in the X case on the phrase "which may be neither immediate nor inevitable" and the recommendation in section 6.4.1 of the expert group's report for two doctors. This section and the Bill in general would be significantly further clarified by the inclusion of those two amendments which unfortunately, due to the manner in which we are dealing with the Bill, could not be moved. Overall, I confirm my support for the section.
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