Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin
1:40 pm
Dr. Peter Boylan:
No. It is categorically not an issue wherever abortion is legalised and the abortion pill is freely available through clinics, hospitals and doctors' surgeries and so on. As it is illegal here, any woman who imports pills into this country faces a criminal prosecution and 14 years in prison. That is an unacceptable position for women to find themselves in.
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