Dr. Maeve Eogan:

It is on the record here that during the discussions on the heads of Bill for the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, the issue of whether there would be people banging down the doors of their GPs claiming that they were suicidal arose. That has not occurred. As an obstetrician, I work in a maternity hospital and I can say that it does not occur. One would hope that the same would happen if termination of pregnancy were legal on the grounds of rape. One can see that within the data Dr. Aiken provided to this group on women who access medications to terminate their pregnancies and where they just have to tick a box, even at that, rape is not ticked very frequently. In general it is more common for psychological stress and distress to be ticked.