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:

The point is that the law exists in this country that a woman qualifies for a termination of pregnancy in the case that there is a substantial risk to her life that can be removed only by termination of pregnancy.

I have outlined very clearly the challenges that creates medically. Whether anybody has been put in jail is not the point.

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