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

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The follow on from that would be the online sale of various pills to be taken some time after the morning after. Was the full medical implications of those products also considered and, if so, to what extent?

Five women who had abortions had some issues to raise. Were any women interviewed who in their view would have benefited if they had had an abortion but did not have one? Does Ms Justice Laffoy know what I am getting at? I refer to the woman who subsequently gave birth to a child. I am not saying I would have come down on one side or the other on this argument. It is just a question as to whether, in the aftermath of the birth of their child, they felt they should have had an abortion or they were right to have had their child.

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