Professor William Binchy:

What Ms Zampas said is important because it does provide corroborative evidence of what I said to the committee generally about the enthusiasm of the members of monitoring bodies for a particular value system. It is astounding that in an area such as a convention on the rights of persons with a disability, that an impairment ground does not interest the committee. They fail to be sensitive to the fact that there is a ground for abortion based on disability and in terms of a disability convention one would have thought they would have some interest in that. However, as Ms Zampas rightly said, they do not. Why? The reason is that is their value system. They are perfectly entitled to their value system. There is no question of conspiracy or bias. These are words I would not use. Their value system, however, means that the way they understand human rights in a convention on disability means that they do not see that abortion for disability presents problems.