Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Engagement with Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, Citizens' Assembly

1:30 pm

Ms Sharon Finegan:

I believe the question is referring to the question a member asked during the preparation for voting on ballot 4B. A member of the assembly asked about the mechanism or procedure used for the termination of pregnancy after 22 weeks. A member of our expert advisory group, Dr. Elizabeth Dunn, gave details about the need for potassium chloride to be injected, after which a delivery would happen, in the event of a termination which included delivery as opposed to surgical dilation and curettage. The contention has been made that the citizens had not received that information previously, whereas they actually had. I refer the Senator to the papers from Dr. Patricia Lohr and Dr. Peter Thompson from Birmingham Women's Hospital, both of whom provided that detail previously.

They had had it in the papers they had previously received. It was not the first time they had received that information. It is important to clarify that.

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