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:
I clearly think it is not working. It has resulted in cases such as Savita Halappanavar, Miss P and the whole alphabet soup we have of women going to the European Court of Human Rights and the UN and so on. It is also not working because as I have said, the genie is out of the bottle, with the abortion pill which is freely available and can be accessed via post offices in this country. There are many anomalies. Time has moved on and the eighth amendment is no longer fit for purpose in 2017.
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