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:
As I have said, if the eighth amendment is repealed, the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 still stands. The only reason one could perform a termination in Ireland would be if the mother's life was at risk. That would absolutely stand and it would be up to the Members to introduce legislation for all the other reasons that the Citizens' Assembly proposed.
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