Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Health Care Issues Arising from the Citizens' Assembly Recommendations: Masters of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street and the Rotunda Hospital
1:00 pm
Dr. Rhona Mahony:
As the Deputy can imagine, there are, thankfully, very limited case reports in this area. We might ask how it happened, but the point is more that it did happen. It happened in this country and it happened in 2014. It happened because of an interpretation of the eighth amendment under which doctors felt that there was an equal right to life of that foetus.
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