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:

Very little experience. If a woman presents to a hospital bleeding and in the course of having a miscarriage, we do not know whether she has tried to use abortion pills. We take at face value whatever she says. Obviously, we look after her regardless and do not make any judgment call whatsoever. If she wants to tell us, that is fine, but I have little experience of that. That is probably because most of them are successfully completed at home and they do not need to attend hospital. They would be in the minority.

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