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

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The witness talked about the half statement of the right to choose. I believe the right to choose means one would have bodily autonomy. It is not a half term; it is a very descriptive one. It is the right to have a baby and it is the right to control fertility. It is quite a wide-ranging term and it is very cheap to refer to it as a half statement. It is about women having bodily autonomy. Does the witness think there should be anything different about women and men having bodily autonomy?

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