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 Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

What would be the effect of medical ethics in addition to the legal framework? If, for example, the eighth amendment to the Constitution was deleted next year and we had a transition period, how would medical ethics deal with this issue? Would doctors still be required to deal with whatever law is on the Statute Book, would there be an interregnum or what would happen?

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