Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will roll my comments together for Ms Zampas then. Does she think that the preamble to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in which reference is made to the right of the child before as well as after birth to care, etc., would still be there were it to be drawn up today, given that she has accepted my point that there is no human rights intervention in favour of the unborn against any overly liberal law that she can speak of? Secondly, given her association with Canada, how can she not be aware of botched abortions there? Is this just an omission on her part? She says in very general terms that if the criminal law were to apply, it should apply, but how can she not be aware of - or does she deny - the fact that official Canadian figures showed that over a ten-year period starting in 2000, 491 babies who survived botched abortions were abandoned by medical staff and left to die alone in the corners of hospitals? Again, I draw her attention to this because I am aware that the question of late-term abortions and babies surviving such abortions has been-----