Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Crisis Pregnancy and Primary Care: Irish College of General Practitioners

2:00 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

"Yes," is the answer to that question. For instance, would a pre-existing medical condition such as a tendency to high blood pressure constitute a crisis pregnancy? How does the present legislation affect the witnesses in their judgement in that regard, given that there have been a number of serious casualties - deaths - in such circumstances? How do they feel practices should deal with kind of situation now?

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