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
Ms Christina Zampas:
The UN Human Rights Committee was very clear on that in the Mellet and Whelan cases. Travel actually caused further harm in that the women were not treated equally to any other patient in any other health care situation in the country and that they were stigmatised and forced to leave because of their condition.
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