Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion
1:30 pm
Michael Harty (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I have another question before I allow Senator Mullen to come back in. On Senator Dolan's remarks about chromosomal abnormalities, of which Down's syndrome would be the most common, is the UN position that it alone is a legitimate reason to have a termination of pregnancy? Whether on chromosomal abnormalities or other abnormalities, how does the UN judge an abnormality to be sufficient to warrant a termination of pregnancy or does that even come into account? Is it just the decision of the mother regardless of what condition her foetus is in?
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