Dr. Rhona Mahony:

No. It is about clinical care. My point is that one cannot predict a clinical course with precision. Some women will get sick gradually and not very sick. Some will very quickly become very ill. In that context, one is facing performing a termination of pregnancy on a woman who is unstable, has major sepsis and is very ill. That can happen when the membranes have ruptured at 14 weeks when there is little prospect of foetal viability.