Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of Louise O'ReillyLouise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Surely the UN will not be making the law for this State when hopefully we repeal the eighth amendment and get a chance to have a grown-up discussion in our Parliament about women's access to a full range of health and reproductive rights. Presumably, while the UN might have a view it would be up to each member state, as it were, to have that debate in their parliament and to put that legislation in place. Clearly the UN would not have a role in drafting that legislation or even debating it. The document here states the position up to the first trimester but it is a matter for individual states to legislate as appropriate and put whatever measures are necessary into law.

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