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)

3:15 pm

Photo of Ciara ConwayCiara Conway (Waterford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Would the results of blood tests and scans not be sufficient in a regular medical case to review it rather than having to physically re-examine the woman? Perhaps the Minister can also satisfy my curiosity about another issue. Will a pregnant woman have to make unnecessary trips in an ambulance to a hospital to be reviewed or will the review committee be brought to the woman? It is an issue if a woman is sick or her life is threatened that in order to undergo a review she would have to go to and from hospitals in an ambulance. I am concerned about that.

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