Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Termination Arising From Rape: Mr. Tom O'Malley, NUI Galway; Dublin Rape Crisis Centre; and Dr. Maeve Eogan, Rotunda Hospital
1:30 pm
Mr. Tom O'Malley:
Yes, I think one would. The United Nations website, with which members may be familiar, sets out the various grounds for which abortion is available for every member state. The heading it has for this is rape or incest. It is not as simple as that by any means because each of those offences is defined in a different way. As the Deputy rightly says, those drafting the legislation would have to look at each of those offences and set out what circumstances or factors might be taken into account if a termination was to be granted in respect of any of them.
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