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
Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran:
It is very unlikely because generally the incidence of lethal malformations is tiny. I do not think the numbers would increase. Those who are diagnosed and cannot have a termination here travel to the United Kingdom to have it done. I do not think the numbers would increase in that particular category.
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