Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations
1:30 pm
Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I find that interesting. I do not want to engage too much with Professor Binchy but I have one last question and I would appreciate if he dealt with it quickly. The Professor talked about equality earlier. When he was campaigning for a "No" vote in the marriage equality referendum, he stated: "True equality never requires the pretence that two relationships with different capacity are the same when they are not. It never justifies the imposition of a false uniformity."
Does Professor Binchy not think that the equal right to life of the woman and the unborn is in fact a pretence that their capacities are the same, when they clearly are not? One is a born, living human being and one is not.
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