Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is as if there are gates and behind them are lots of pregnant women trying to get through but if we open them, they are just going to run wild. Pregnancy is something that progresses. If a woman is not going to get sorted in her GP's surgery, she is going to go onto aerlingus.comor ryanair.comor wherever. I hate being racist against Irish people but we are trying to get an Irish solution to an Irish problem here. I cannot understand why we are - to use Dr. Boylan's word - "shrouding" the decision in terms of trying to keep this person or that person happy. I think it is right to say that we are all abortionists in this room. It is just that some of us are willing to face up to the realities while some are willing to shove it onto someone else's plate.