Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In 2013, 15 obstetricians who had been practising in Ireland for many years under the eighth amendment wrote to the Oireachtas committee, of which I was a member, strongly disagreeing with Dr. Mahony's claims regarding fears of a prison sentence for intervening to save a mother's life. One went on to describe those claims as histrionic. At those Oireachtas committee hearings in 2013, in answer to Senator John Crown, Dr. Mahony and other obstetricians agreed that they did not know of any instance where a needless maternal death had occurred because doctors had felt unable to act to save a woman's life under the eighth amendment. Is it fair to say that Dr. Mahony may be ideologically motivated in calling for abortion to be legalised in Ireland?