Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran:

I thank the Deputy for raising everything that she raised and I completely agree with her, 100%. I would recommend that legislation should, instead of saying this, that or the other, refer to it being discussed with the woman and, based on the women's request, a termination is offered if she wants it. That is based on 60 years experience in the UK and that is a perfect example of what is happening. It is not uncontrolled but is registered and these things are discussed. Otherwise, we are just, as the Deputy said, pussyfooting around, trying to invent reasons to do it.

That will not be the main objective. If the committee wants to bring in legislation, I would recommend looking at the UK and following that. If the committee does not want to look at the UK it can look at the others, but the legislation there is quite liberal.