Peter Fitzpatrick (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses here today. The committee has been talking a lot about the safety of abortion for women. I would like to hear from Dr. Boylan about how safe abortion is for the baby in the womb. It seems to me that we must be prepared to say, here and now, that abortion is never safe for the baby. With abortion, the baby's life always ends. How does Dr. Boylan feel about introducing a procedure that would ask doctors to do the opposite of what they have always been asked to do? We have always trained doctors to save human lives. Abortion would expect doctors to end human lives.