Professor William Binchy:

To put it this way, I am saying that everybody's right to health should be protected, but if we were to introduce a ground such as the Deputy is perhaps recommending, it is fair to say, on the "get real" test which we have been attempting to apply today, that it would translate in practice, as it has in Britain for example, into wide-ranging abortion. That is the way it translates. That is the stark choice.